Lengthy patch download haunts Metal Gear Online

The Konami clusterfu*k - part 2

There are two delivery options, one which involves peer-to-peer connections, a la BitTorrent. Unfortunately, the hours-long download cannot be background downloaded. PS3 is certainly encouraging a lot more sandwich eating, no?...

[Drekken]

NOM NOM NOM... Start the download, hit Video source and watch some TV... OOOOR Go outside!

[Fishy Fingers]

What a fantastic suggestion...

Apart from each time I start the download I get a few percent and it crashes forcing me to quit to the XMB and start the process all over again.

I'm having to baby sit it every step of the way.

Bloody joke.

[solar]

thats exactly what i did. watched tv and played tf:2 on pc while i waited. no big deal at all.

[Superiorrior]

Fishy theres more than 100,000 people trying to do exactly what your doing at the exact some time, they're so swamped there probably buying server units in bulk right now.

[DarkArcani]

who goes outside anymore?

[thomfilm]

Outside? When did this all happen? I think I must have missed this outside craze.

[Keowrath]

heh Domultra I agree, this is the beta. First feedback they should be obtaining is that they need a bucket load more servers! They obviously didn't realise how popular their game was gonna be. As long as they take note on this hopefully by the time the full title is released they'll have they're sh!t together... Hopefully =)

[Rocko]

go outside and pretend Konami knows what the f**k they're doing.

[MikeGdaGod]

i went outside

[Marceles]

At least this is happening a few days before the beta begins. I understand if this was on the first day of beta, but everyone has plenty of time to download the beta and patch it by Monday.

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

But it sucks because I still can't get on the id.konami.net website. It's been blocked for the past couple of days.

[Delive]

Though I don't agree with all the decisions Konami (Not Sony) made about the ID's and lengthy patch downloads, I am going to Beta test a game for $5 down on a game I was going to buy anyway on Monday. Half the pre-orders now a days give you a t-shirt, a doll, art book, a stylus or stuff like that. Pretty sweet deal if you ask me. I started the patch and went to work. I had actually stopped it at like 6% and it picked up where it left off on the HTTP download option.

[Amanosenpai]

Why everybody is pushing so hard a BETA? Yea I know it will be glorious BUT come on give it a break, i mean, the BETA is not even open, you WONT acces till monday 21, you are plenty of TIME, for real (its thursday).

I can already see monday´s news "MGSO beta servers having issues"

just BE PATIENT guys

[Bladestar]

I am not yet a PS3 owner, but I would just do it overnight... many of you do folding... think of it the same way.... if you sleep at least a few hours a day... you should be ok.

[Kenshin_BATT0USAI]

agreed.

[cr33ping_death]

again sounds like a good idea but if the server crashes ou have to exit the game and then re eneter to start off where you last left off. so leaving the PS3 on is pointlee...i should know i did that last night :( but i finished downloading it after like 2 hours of constant crashes.

[Max Power]

and the site was down pretty much all night, i did manage to get on before my internet connection quit on me.

[Yipee Bog]

with the 360 for downloads, until I woke up in the middle of the night thinkin' my roof was falling on my head from the noise. ps3 can get loud too sometimes if you leave it on long enough. Maybe I just like my beauty sleep too much. or I need to quit drinking before I go to bed, to each his own.

[timmyp53]

how konami didn't put it on the PS store.

[Spinner]

Yeah what the hell .. why couldn't they just make it like a regular game update? Sony would have hosted it for free.

Holy sh!t Konami, learn2internet.

[UnblessedSoul]

You cant do it overnight you'll just get an error and not much will be downloaded

[DarkArcani]

you have till monday. take a chill pill. it's not like your missing out on some play time.
Oh and this is a "BETA". It's not meant to be working like a finished product.

[Tetsuryu]

Seriously I'm getting error messages left and right, while downloading at a lighting 0.00463234KB/s. Current progress: 0%

Minutes later...

ERROR MESSAGE: YOU FAIL AT LIFE, HAVE A NICE DAY - KONAMI

[Chris_GTR1]

true, ive already tried downloading it 4 times and it errors at bearly 10%. and not to mention it downloads painfully slow, about 40 kb per second.

[Tetsuryu]

I would consider myself to be lucky just to get 1kb/s.

[San anto]

mines averaged at 20 kbs =[

[niall77]

got a average of 25-35kb/s which wasnt bad from what I hear.

took about 5 hours but I got some paper work done and watched about 3 hours of mythbusters, karry = win

[Max Power]

and yes she is hott, also like 38.

[Superiorrior]

Whaaaa!? She's not 38? I hope you mean your download.

[PROGnosis]

it wasnt bad for me it took 10 minutes, long enough to make a sandwich and eat it

[kr9091]

Yea man same here. It took like 10-15 minutes for me to download it AND install the update. I used the HTTP download as well so I don't know what everyone is complaining about.

I also got a head start on my KONAMI ID like a couple of days before the download so that I wouldn't have all these problems with registering haha.

[sandip787]

im in england, and i downloaded the japanese version yesterday. i got it all done after about 5 hours - downloading, installing, updating etc. but now i downloaded the UK version, but it wont let me update. it cant connect to the server apparently. sooo, seeing as though both versions look identical to me, will i be able to play on the jap version and not have to mess about waiting hours to update the uk one? anyway, if anyway can answer or at least reply, that would be good.

but yeh, it was a farce to download. but i wonder why the game actually mentions Bittorrent. and is this the first time a game has allowed P2P downloading? on consoles anyway.

[Don Ahid]

Ive done the same thing mate i have the jap ver updated n everything lets just hope we can play on the jap

[Yipee Bog]

Will you guys be playing through Japan servers? If so I really hope you guys don't experience the lag connecting to there from the UK. Maybe it is irrelevant and things will go without a hitch. Lag can make a game simply unplayable for the player and other people your playing with. My advice, don't give up on your UK account, good luck.

[Jim Crowslaw]

it didnt take no freakin 10 minutes u liar lol. ah but u deserve an agreement anyway. here u go

[PROGnosis]

well maybe not 10 min but around 17 min, i timed it with a 13 min song and a 5 min song, and before i knew it my sandwich was gone

[gano]

Anyone pre-order,get the 9 digit code and get in? I still can't and is
PISSED!

[Keowrath]

9 digit codes were a "faulty" batch of prints. Contact the konami support mail on the slip your code is on. They responded to me with the full 12 digits.

[gano]

Hell i sent two e-mails, tried the online beta page 40 times or more.... THEM MOTHERF@#$ better fix this shyt. I need my fix of metal gear. The reserve if what you said is tru was a damn rip-off.

[jmare]

This is nothing compared to the Konami ID/Game Id fvck up.

EDIT: below: What good is a beta if you can't get in because they d!ck up the registration process a week before the beta starts. Konami is just fvcking this beta left and right.

[gano]

That way before hand. But what good if you pre-order and the shyt don't work. WTF MAN!??!?!?

[Alcohog]

It didn't take me very long when I did it last night. 30 minutes maybe? I used the torrent option.

[Cerberus_Hunter]

Already updated my beta...all i need is the f-ing Konami ID

What a nightmare!

[EZCheez]

This Konami ID fiasco is going to be the dark cloud of the beta, hopefully.

[Skater]

I'm sorry. But damn am I glad I made my Konami ID on Tuesday, or I might've been screwed come Monday. I think this explains why there's no Konami podcast this week, it's because Ryan is afraid of answering the mailbox, which I'm sure is filled with complaints regarding this Konami ID BS.

[kr9091]

Yea I got my KONAMI ID then too! Im so glad i did not procrastinate lol. But that really does suck for all of the people trying to sign up now :/ Good luck guys!

[devilhunterx]

Still dont understand why they didnt upload MGO 1.1 on the PS store?!

[Close_Second]

It really annoys me that I am forced to download a patch to run a demo the very day the demo was released on PSN. By the way, after 3 hours I still have not managed to get 1% of the patch downloaded!!!!

As per usual someone has opted for the easy way out knowing that gamers will put up with anything. Well, I am now going to wait until MGS4 is at a budget price or I will buy it second hand before I pick it up. If they cant be bothered doing the job right then why should they get my full support (i.e. paying full price) for the game.

[xtreampro]

mines crashing aswell

[xtreampro]

if u get 10% done and then it crashes, u then off n on the PS3 go on the beta again the installing should carry on from where i left of right!!

[Exile__]

I did P2P no crashing, about 300kb/s

It just took a while to connect to a good peer.

[DevonTheDude535]

The prologue install with patch is around ~35+ mins, the MGO patch was just as bad if not worse in terms of wait time

[jackdoe]

Even though it takes a long time, you cannot even play the game yet! The beta isn't up, by that I mean start, until the 21st so you'll have to wait anyway. Not quite the clusterfvck that they are making it out to be. Annoying, yes. Clusterfvck, no.

[Meus Renaissance]

I got a ton of disagrees for criticising Konami for their inadequate Online infrastructure. I expect lag for the beta, I'll be shocked if there aren't mass complaints about lag next week.

[jackdoe]

I'm not quite sure about that. They already ran a beta test last year in Japan, so I'm sure they have SOME solid infrastructure in place from that test.

[PROGnosis]

Wowsers!

[jmare]

I want to disagree with you, but mistake after mistake on Konami's part is really starting to worry me. The only way this will be worth it is if MGO is load-blowingly awesome. I can hope, but something says that it won't be.

Edit: Also, it looks like Konami's server went down again. I'm not sure, but it looks like it.

[PirateThom]

Having played MGO on both PS2 and PSP, I can confirm it will be worth it. As long as it's not laggy as hell, which neither of those games were.

[Shortstop]

Hahaha, screwed by a free game! What'll M$ fanboys think of next? I'm seriously getting tired by their immaturity. A clusterf*ck would be my PS3 exploding and burning my face... a clusterf*ck would be my PS3 getting up and jumping out the window on it's own... a clusterf*ck would be Sony deciding to charge for PSN.

Anything that has to do with a FREE game cannot be a clusterf*ck.

[Jdash24]

Freaking I'm only at 16% and getting only 10 kB/s

[zen_fart]

assholes denied me a key but im going to keep trying
50% thru that stupid patch

[RecSpec]

I just hope things go right come Monday.

[Sugaruby33]

i would try to get an konami id while your trying to get your promo code or while your downloading the beta and downloading the update,

i already did both and still can't get a new konami id since i deleted mine not knowing this fiasco was going to be happening

[meepmoopmeep]

it took me 2 hours to finish download via P2P
HTTP kept giving me errors.

[BlackCountryBob]

I have tried downloading the patch a few times now by both sources and it has said their is a server fault 3 times and binned me back to the XMB :(

Why exactly wasn't this patch included in the proper download off the PSN store? Seems odd that so often there are patches at launch, I can understand it for disk games but digital distribution just makes no sense to me that the complete package would not be available in just one download at launch.

[PirateThom]

My advise for P2P.

Don't use the default port and make sure you open the port you do use on the router.

[micro_invader]

Yes, it does. If you just leave after it's gone to 100% it says uploading to client with XX KB/s but the "downloading to client" says 0.

[micro_invader]

It's at 95% now. After a few tries with the http, which kept giving me errors, I used the p2p way and now I'm almost done.(I hope I don't jinx myself :P).

It's at a slow but steady pace and that's fine by me, I just want to get this over and done with.

[ProperFunked]

i started downloading and Patching on the 16th. the lamest part is gonna be trying to get on the id.konami.net site...OMFG!!! "System is very busy Now...Please Try again later"

and when you think ur about to register for once...NOPE says you took to long to register and drops you...BS. hopefully this is all sorted out by monday. im freaking out right now

good luck to everyone in your attempts

[vilmer]

100kb/s down, 20kb/s up. It's flying for me, should be done in about 15 minutes. A phat pipe also helps as well :P

[PirateThom]

Does it give you an option to keep the p2p running once it's done?

I'd like to try and upload as much as possible for anyone else who is having problems.

[arcadegoal]

i hear the problembs users are having downloading the update to make game version 1.1 i used the torrent took 2 hours but got it all in one go just need the ids now though kinda sucks long downloads and updates i waited that long i dont feel like playing it now anyway but try again tomorrow for ids

[Sony sucks balls]

Yep

[psnDevistator356]

Happy I got a European account.

[phctheone]

lag lag lag

[LeShin]

......some people here are nuts. The $hit doesn't even start until Monday anyway so what the hell are you guys moaning for? What, are you that excited to finish downloading the beta and it's patch JUST to be greeted with a screen which tells you that you can't play until Monday?? Ever thought that maybe the reason Konami is letting us download it now is so that we don't have this so called "cluster f*ck" when it's due to be played?

Admittedly, the whole Konami ID was a little tedious but I'm sure there's probably a good reason why we can't use a PSN ID yet, and it really didn't bother me that much, we'll see.

[Adamalicious]

The patch is no big deal - just p2p and go make a bunch of sandwiches. The Konami ID on the other hand was a royal pain to get and to confirm.

[slymaddox]

Don't condemn Konami for doing something good. They knew that MGO is going to be huge. So what did that do? They made the beta available before the actual release date so everything could get downloaded and registered before it went live! Wow what a bad idea that was.(not) It's sad that people actually still complain when a company does something the right way. Imagine what it would have been like if they just released the beta and said there you go have fun waiting a week to play. No, they actually thought ahead and got all that "stuff" out of the way and made it so we all can play on day one. I say, "Way to go Konami and Sony for working together and bringing us this wonderful game." Kudos!

[xtremerocker]

Well that was like so much hrs it exceeded the one thing that got me mad was after of hours waiting for the MGS4 Beta there wasn't no way to get your I.D From Konami So good Luck ya (servers Crashed)

[jkhan]

Its not really that big of a deal. But still the damn thing is taking too long:( Plus I can't even watch a movie or anything on my ps3. Atleast they should have put the patch option as a background download.

[SL1M DADDY]

Downloaded the beta then downloaded the patch and had a bit of lucj while I was at it. Anybody that complains about this stuff needs to be slapped.

[battery]

started mine 10 minutes ago. It's now at 2%.

score...

[ravinshield]

WAIT B3YOND

[DomUltra]

I love how hypocritical this is, say wasn't Live down for a total of a month? and to this day you still get randomly disconnected for no apparent reason? Oh that's right.

Btw, after june, you have no games to play till November, and then after theres nothing, literally jackshit, so you know have fun and stuff.

[San anto]

thank god i have my konami ID =]