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Metal Gear Online Beta (The New Low)
Jan. 14th, 2016 03:50 amOk, so the Metal Gear Online beta launched yesterday. And it's already been suspended.
Konami didn't say why, but apparently Kotaku sheds some light on it being related to a possible exploit that let players gain the in-game currency (which is normally only purchased with real money, you know, to help hide from the user how much money they're wasting.) for free.
Do you see the problem with this?
If your thought was to say "Well of course! They should have been able to find something like that before launching the mmo!" then you totally missed the real problem.
This is not Metal Gear Online. This is the BETA OF Metal Gear Online. A live beta is suppose to be focused on finding and eliminating bugs in the game, something that can be easier to track down when you have a large number of people testing damned near everything. However it was taken offline because of a problem WITH THE BETA'S MICROTRANSACTIONS.
This game is not out of beta, and Konami is ALREADY milking the users with it. All they had to do is make sure people understood the character base would be deleted prior to the official launch.
Also, commenters on PC Gamer, some of them at least, were complaining about this and how the entire game industry "appears" to be going down the toilet lately.
I agree that it is going down the toilet. I predicted it would. But ultimately the entire fault lies on gamers that continue to suck down what ever's coming out of the pipe. So all the players of the Metal Gear Online beta are doing, if they buy even a single coin, is justifying this shit. And with that you can expect it to spread to every other mmo BETA that follows.
Konami didn't say why, but apparently Kotaku sheds some light on it being related to a possible exploit that let players gain the in-game currency (which is normally only purchased with real money, you know, to help hide from the user how much money they're wasting.) for free.
Do you see the problem with this?
If your thought was to say "Well of course! They should have been able to find something like that before launching the mmo!" then you totally missed the real problem.
This is not Metal Gear Online. This is the BETA OF Metal Gear Online. A live beta is suppose to be focused on finding and eliminating bugs in the game, something that can be easier to track down when you have a large number of people testing damned near everything. However it was taken offline because of a problem WITH THE BETA'S MICROTRANSACTIONS.
This game is not out of beta, and Konami is ALREADY milking the users with it. All they had to do is make sure people understood the character base would be deleted prior to the official launch.
Also, commenters on PC Gamer, some of them at least, were complaining about this and how the entire game industry "appears" to be going down the toilet lately.
I agree that it is going down the toilet. I predicted it would. But ultimately the entire fault lies on gamers that continue to suck down what ever's coming out of the pipe. So all the players of the Metal Gear Online beta are doing, if they buy even a single coin, is justifying this shit. And with that you can expect it to spread to every other mmo BETA that follows.
