Metal Gear Survive has just been released and the game comes with a really awful gameplay design. As of right now, gamers can only have one save slot for one character. If players want to get another save slot, they’ll have to pay $10 for it.
Truth be told, even Metal Gear Online suffered from this issues, however, this is something we’ve been witnessing mostly in free-to-play games where the developers charge for additional characters. However, Metal Gear Survive is a full retail title, so this decision is as anti-consumer and greedy as it can get.
Furthermore, your family or friends on Steam will have to pay for an additional save slot in order to play this game. And no, there is no workaround for this as of yet.
Purchasing additional character save slots requires spending SV Coins, the game’s unique currency. As such, a save slot requires 1000 SV Coins. At the time of writing, there is no way you can earn SV points by simply playing the game. So yeah, this is the definition of pay-to-play. Oh, and there are more micro-transactions to this game than the additional character save slots.
Our PC Performance Analysis for Metal Gear Survive will go live tomorrow, so stay tuned for more!
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Was Konami bought by an Israeli company?
hmmm I know how to save $10 and save $40 more too. I won’t buy that game.
Worthabuy’s video review of this game is predictably amusing.
Gonna watch it now!
Was funny as hell. Didn’t know him lol!
Perhaps the most amusing reviews he’s done were for No Man’s Sky (part 1 of 2) and how he depicted the gameplay for Batman Arkham Knight. He loves upsetting The Witcher III fanboys too which is always funny.
Mining and grinding mining and grinding he’s funny lol.
Yup! Hilarious stuff.
Exactly, this is insane. Konami is crazy and have lost their minds!
Glad I did not buy it. I bet EA is going to go “hmm nice idea, lets do that”, lol I hope not or anyone else for that matter.
**** this game, first lootbox’s now save slots!!
It is as if Aaa publishing has a bet with each other: who can piss off gamers the most with microtransactions?
What the hell is this all about ? Is this REAL news ?
So, now we have to pay extra for just having “extra” SAVE game slots ? What on earth is wrong with the entire PC gaming industry ?
If it’s the fault in the Gameplay design, then why should Legit buyers/gamers suffer because of this ?
Konami didn’t screwed anything. People will buy the game and it will have good reviews. This just say to Konami that is ok to do what is doing.
It’s not the game industry fault it’s the users anf media fault.
Okay, does this really mean we are ones to Blame for all this, and not Konami or any other game dev/publisher ?
What about the Gameplay design ? How are we responsible for this, when we want to purchase the game ?
It’s not about reviews, or purchasing the game, it was about the Save game slot.
Btw, I removed my previous reply, because I’m confused right now with regards to all this….
Yes, is our fault (well, not mine I’ve never supported this)
People who buy DLCs, and microtransactions are the one to blame. They are the ones who support this kind of behaviour. Game companies only care about money and reviews if both are good, then they can continue doing what they are doing. The only way to change this is by hurting its sales and giving low reviews
In my country there is a saying “If You don’t know what’s going on then it’s probably about money”.
See crap that Intel does. They throw at us these new CPUs with abysmal performance increase and each require new mobo.
M$ creating multiple windows versions that are different by one or two features.
PeralAbyss and their BlackDesertOnline, paid game and in game $$$ shop.
Bottom line if You have / preferably / good product You will milk… until cow stops giving milk 🙂
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Pay ??$ to buy the game then pay more ??$ to play the game… Truth must be told this is not the fault of any studio or publisher, it’s the fault of the people who buy this nonsense online garbage.
they have trully outdone themselves.
Konami are making things too easy for Jim Sterling!
Cant wait 😀 hes gona take a huge dump on them
Get it now !
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$10 EACH for an additional save slot !
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lol
Controller support: $5.
Sound: $12
Graphics: $32
Cut scenes: $8.50
A game someone actually wants to play: pricele… $59
They did that in 2008… but the player is allowed to delete his original character and start over.
This micro transaction infection is spreading too far and wide. I’m afraid we are gonna have to put them down.
remember when konami was a loved darling?…hell 20 years ago, 30 years…they made wonderful awesome titles if it had konami on the box you knew it was good. and then they drank some crazy sauce and decided to go out of business.
propably because everyone considers konami to be dead.
And the “gaming industry” continues to reach new lows. I can only pray another crash falls upon us soon.
Need all the suits to give up on gaming and go destroy another industry instead.
Maybe then, we can get people who actually care about end products AND profit, to take over the charge in this hobby’s market.
I thought from the exact same perspective, but it seems everyone is putting the blame on us, the end-users/buyers, and media, for all this mess (not the gaming industry, or Konami).
i hated konami and every other japanese game developer or publisher, i hate japanese games in any form but i got to admit i love the new konami, they shet on nerds so good.
Isn’t the word shat the correct term? Or maybe you want to say Sh!t? Anyone who spends money on this game deserve to be shat upon
i want to say shet without censoring, use your brain.
i don’t like this kind of game otherwise i’d buy it for how the new konami treats crying nerds like you.
Well that’s one way to make EA look awesome.
What if, EA follows suit ?
Aren’t they already ?
Well, maybe Yes, but I’m not fully sure about this…
Save slots are so over rated. 🙂
Konami and all the other AAA pubs going full rtard Mobile Infection are no longer video game companies and shouldn’t be brought up in gaming sites. Mobile game sites maybe but not core AAA/AA quality content gaming sites. Though who the hell am I to make the judgement?
Konami trying to compete with EA for the worst game company
Along with the likes of Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment, Tecmo Koei, Activision Blizzard, Square Enix, Capcom and Ubisoft the competition is fierce.
How the mighty have fallen 🙁
…… there aren’t many respectable AAA companies left these days ….
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Since Horse Armour, all us sensible people said DLC is a bad idea because of where it will lead greedy companies to in the future. All the DLC buyers were defending it saying “if you dont like DLC dont buy it”. These people are responsible for where DLC milking is today. We were right all along (obviously), but even now it wont stop these people buying DLC.
Well, you won’t be winning any popularity contests advising gamers to not buy so much DLC garbage but I advise gamers of the same thing only I go a step further. I have been saying for years and years to stop pre-ordering games from questionable Publishers (most of them are questionable in their business practices) and don’t buy games on release because so many games are rushed to release and are often a buggy mess and unpolished.
Then a step further. I say if you are going to wait a few months for a game to get patched and polished then wait a little longer and get it on sale. In this way you get the best gaming experience at a cheaper price and most likely Denuvo would be removed by then. But, it seems, that most gamers are impatient and can’t wait to play a new game so this encourages Publishers/ Developers to continue rushing unfinished games.
Can you imagine what would be said in private by some of these Publishers/ Developers? They would be shocked that millions were buying their games only after they were patched and polished and then on sale too instead of the opposite going on right now. For the sake of their financial survival they would have to patch and polish a game before release in the future.
Pay to Save…
That’s horrible.