

Experience Metal Gear like you never have before with the tension of stealth gameplay, tactics of base defense, and the grueling reality of survival. Metal Gear Survive is a spin-off of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain that integrates MGSV:TPP's intense gameplay elements into a survival action format. Metal Gear Survive is available now on PS4, Xbox One and PC.Introducing a new style of Metal Gear, where teamwork and strategy will be the key to your fate. This is just a particularly blatant and unnecessarily controversial micro-transaction when there are so many other ways to fleece us. Gambling with loot boxes, paying inordinate sums for map packs, and various other revenue schemes all look for ways to part gamers from their hard-earned cash. This kind of shady business practice isn't exactly unique in the video game industry. I also think the Metal Gear series can survive just fine without Kojima. I've never been de facto anti- Metal Gear Survive, because I've always felt the Hideo Kojima controversy was a little more complicated than it's been reported. Often the community relations workers at companies like this are just doing the best they can, so cut them some slack.īut good grief, charging for save slots? Charging real money for a second save slot? That's just shameless. You can do that by not buying the game or by letting the company know how bad this is on social media, via email, or on forums like reddit where this was first spotted. Just remember, you can express your dissatisfaction and anger without making it personal or harassing people. Hopefully Konami realizes what a terrible idea this is and backtracks, but the only way they'll do that is if gamers are upset enough by it and let Konami know.

But any game that forces you to pay both to play it in the first place and for additional save slots is off to a bad start. I'll be playing Metal Gear Survive later this afternoon and will report back with findings. The countdown to a new Jim Sterling 'Jimquisition' segment on the blatant greed and absurdity of Konami has begun.

Granted, the game is just $40 instead of $60, but with this degree of nickel-and-diming, it's still pretty hard to swallow.
