Konami Is Doing Everything In Its Power To Ruin Phantom Pain Launch

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain launches tomorrow and is highly anticipated by many as one of the biggest games of the fall. This is astonishing considering Konami’s current stance on gaming, with gambling quickly becoming their main focus along with a vested interest in mobile titles. Perhaps this is why Konami is acting like The Patriots, controlling and censoring information with an iron fist and a cold heart. Everyone following games have been inundated with news about Konami concerning The Phantom Pain, and there were just enough bits to add onto the pile today to make summarizing the entire ordeal make some sense.

[Maybay]

It's foolish to have microtransactions in a full priced game, though how do you expect companies to make money?

I don't agree MT's - though games are getting bigger, and gamers want software that's akin to movies in the fmv department. Publisers can't up the price of retail software because that'll condense their average profit margins, and ''on disc DLC'' is out of the question since Capcom had to learned the hardway with their Street Fighter VI title (gamer backlash).

It's a; ''between a rock and a hard place'' scenario, and there's only a couple of options available.

[The_KELRaTH]

They could maybe go back to creating games and forget the movie part!

[Zeref]

Games are getting bigger but they are also getting much easier to make. A slightly above average 8 year old can make a game nowadays. With tools like Unity and Unreal Engine. Games nowadays are easier to make than ever. The hardest part is actually getting it to be played by people.

[Aenea]

Ah yes, an 8 year old pumps out a AAA game in mere minutes these days, it's so easy! /s

Even with Unity and Unreal Engine you need to be able to code and code well, especially when it comes to consoles. Games these days aren't made by 1 to 3 people in 3 to 6 months like what happened in the 80s, now it takes several years by 100s of people...

People these days have absurd ideas how stuff works *shakes head*

[bmf7364]

The tools are available and free, and if it's so easy why aren't you making a game?

And AAA games are getting bigger and thus more expensive to make. In some cases, microtransactions in AAA games (like GTAV) are justified when it doesn't mean much to tip any sort of scale in PvP. (i.e. P2W) I haven't played TPP yet (steam unlocks the download ability at 1p.m. ET) so I personally don't know if Konami's model is P2W but given current reception from Gamespot, it's not looking good.

[guyman]

"A slightly above average 8 year old can make a game nowadays"

Wow ok, that's ridiculous.

[uth11]

If they were getting easier to make we wouldn't be waiting years for releases. In the old days, if it took a year or more to make it would already be outdated on release, it would also be considered "vaporware"

[Zeref]

@Aenea
I said "a" game. Never said anything about the quality.
I know that with Unity there are tools that help you make a game without knowing code at all, it does the coding for you but i know . I'm not sure about Unreal Engine. But I'm sure there are tools to help you use minimal code as well. Of course it wouldn't work for huge AAA games but most Indie can be built this way.
So yes 8 year olds are making games, just look it up. And have you forgotten about Project spark? It's coding made easy.
@bmf7364
I am making games. I love how people like to judge other people without knowing shit about them.
I said that the most difficult part is getting people to play your games because i know.

[Mrveryodd]

This is the most expencive stand alone game to date $110 au not to mention that $49 demo ... me thinks thay could go a little lighter on the micro Bs

[extermin8or]

Tbf for a story centric game it appears to be very long like.... There is ALOT of content for your money.... I know other games have lots of content and dont charge more but I suspect this game had a particularly large budget.

[abstractel]

Creating a game for PS1 with the tools that existed back then is not the same as creating a game for a PS4/XB1 with the tools that exists today. And innovations on the content generation side are happening very quickly. It won't be long before indies are putting out AAA type games. Perhaps not in scope (though sometimes; No Man's Sky). It really comes down to the skills of the people creating it.

Not saying we are going to see an Uncharted 4 from indie developers anytime soon, but you really can't compare development costs even to last gen as you have to take so much progress on the software development side.

MT, if they are basically cheats, I don't mind. It's akin to cheat codes back in the day. As long as I can play my $60 game and get the full experience I expect without MTs. So far in MGSV, I haven't experienced them to be an issue.

[N0TaB0T]

This disease is even more out of control than it had ever been.

God bless this generation. It needs Jesus.

[OhMyGandhi]

or Batman.

[DafunkyRebel]

Forget Jesus we need the dark lord chin chin

[benji101]

Wow.. These sites are desperate for hits. Nothing to write about so...

[OhMyGandhi]

amazing. I'd say they are absolutely cold blooded, but that would be an understatement. They legitimately don't care. They may very well be vacating the industry altogether. And they should. Because they are handling this like a bunch of belligerent 6 year olds who are stomping their feet and plugging their ears because things aren't going their way.

I'm sorry Kojima became too big for you guys. That he was the face of multiple companies, and became your goose that laid the golden egg, that he most likely became a handful with his ambitious game designs, and that he is a perfectionist at heart, like all master craftsman.

I can't wait to see what happens with him, though. He could walk into any studio in the world, and people would welcome him with open arms.

[extermin8or]

He couldn't to any publisher in the world and they'd likely fund him setting up a studio. (Sony - as the Japanese usually stick together and they worked closely for a long long time; would seem the obvious one to be talking to kojima at least.)

[Xbonewone32015]

Rip off game.

Nothing has changed since the overpriced demo.

Poor, very poor.

[Bolts]

Settle down fanboys. So a dozen or so gamers who bought the physical copy of MGS5 on disk will have to download the game through Steam?

Ask me if I care. PC gaming is all digital now. The disk in the physical copy is basically a prop because in some cases, the day one patch can be as big as the enire game as itself. The Witcher games are infamous for this. Long story short, there is no reason to be outraged by something that only effect the .1%. Go find something else to be pissed at Konamni about.

[franwex]

I know, the fanboys on this site are getting to the point of hysteria. Kinda makes it a little embarrassing to be associated with this site.

[fitfox]

this is ridiculous, why would the sabotage there own launch?

[Rhythmattic]

Its all a Blessing in disguise... The last good MGS, albeit possibly a transaction Minefield (MGO ? Whats that gonna cost ay?) , But at leastgoing out in style as a multiplatform for all gamers to enjoy.....

Now its up to Kojima, he can be his own man... Thats a good thing, Right? New ip, new future..
Theres no doubt in my mind, Kojima will succeed...
As for Konami ? Who the Fk cares.

[shauzy]

bla bla bla hate konami no money, if you dont buy their shit others will, besides who are you to think that not buying a game will bankrupt a multibillion company, they will lose when they do it themselves, like after phantom pain there will be nothing worth buying.