Konami has announced it will be shutting down Metal Gear Online on June 21, four years after it was originally launched.
In the lead up to its closure Konami will bring down the Metal Gear Online shop, and character creation will go offline in April. Meme, Gene and Scene, the game's three expansion packs, will be free to download until the servers are shut down for good.
Those of us who played Metal Gear Online obsessively for a few weeks after it launched and found it quite enjoyable, if a bit clunky, are sad to see it go.
Japanese analysts have said they expect Metal Gear Solid 5 to launch during Konami's fiscal year 2014.
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Fr33Kye on 14 Feb '12 said:
Goodbye to one of the most unique multiplayer experiences out there. Hopefully you'll come back soon....
MattyR95 on 14 Feb '12 said:
It were never really my thing
TheLastDodo on 14 Feb '12 said:
Damn you EA, you bastards!!!......................
*reads story properly*
Damn you EA, you bastards!!!
MJ-Thriller94 on 14 Feb '12 said:
Such a shame to see this go. I quite liked it, but the last time i played it there was about two other people playing it with me. Not many played it at all, which probably lead to this decision
I think all Metal Gear fans should play it again for one last tour of duty
BlueScorpion91 on 14 Feb '12 said:
MGO is(was) my joint favorite online gaming experience with Call of Duty 4. A lot of happy memories of trying to get the frog while in stealth camo.
slick loose on 14 Feb '12 said:
"Cry for me. Cry until your eyes turn red! " - Crying Wolf
I never did get the chance to play MGO, it's a shame because I always wanted to.
ensabahnur on 14 Feb '12 said:
For me it never worked well anyway, from the ridiculous sign in procedure that didn't use your PSN account, to the constant updates, to the lag that crippled the game in the early days. As a MGS fan since the PS1 days i thought this would have been a brilliant concept but it just turned in to a p**s poor deathmatch game that never worked properly.
I've yet to play MGS:Peace Walker HD online, i hope its better than this was.
Gambini on 14 Feb '12 said:
I Lol'd
svd_grasshopper on 14 Feb '12 said:
agree it was unique.
probably hampered and ultimately brought down by the disgraceful sign-up palaver. that was konami's fault.
always held out hope for trophies on this. guess that's out of the question now... they ain't gonna launch trophies for half a game. was gonna rebuy MGS4 after i had completed the HD collection. now, i don't think so.
drpunk on 14 Feb '12 said:
Peer to peer ain't all bad.
It'd be quite cool if developers could simply swap between servers or no servers. I'm sure people would prefer to play using servers but it'd be nice that they could turn them off and people could still play if they wanted to.
Josh298 on 14 Feb '12 said:
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Toasted_PSP on 14 Feb '12 said:
Its a shame that these companies cant just release dedicated server software onto the internet when they take their own servers down. I for one would be happy to run a server for a game I like that the developer had decided to take down.
It always seems crazy to me that I can still find a game of Quake but cant find a game of some much later released games because they had tighter controller servers that didn't get released to the public.
The problem with peer to peer is that they often require a matchmaking server to still be online so even though they use your own connection you still might lose online play if the matchmaking server is take offline.
KK-Headcharge78 on 14 Feb '12 said:
Never played it but it looked cool, however if it's sign in was anything like some of the EA sites then I'd be chewing my own s**t, I can't get on Battlelog because of the f**king rigmarole EA sites make you go through, 'we see you are already registered'..... yes but that was years ago I don't remember the password......... 'we will send the password to the address you registered with'........ no I don't have that email anymore....... 'sending password to original account email'...........f**k off and die EA.
jm3811 on 14 Feb '12 said:
The sign off thing was so horrible that I never played it. Guess it was a good game but they made everything to make it unplayable. Was surely not a concern for Konami as they want us to spend hours watching cut-scenes.
Desert Fox on 14 Feb '12 said:
I wanted to try it and like it, but found the signup thing so buggy and unuseable that I gave up and never tried it. Hope they learn from MGO, but I doubt it.
The Bossman on 14 Feb '12 said:
I think I played probably 5 games before abandoning it, purely because of the awful ID login system and the fact it took 10 mins just to get in a game that either had spawn campers or 4 people in the match. It could have been great but they ballsed it up with those mistakes.
Cogglesz on 14 Feb '12 said:
more_bots on 15 Feb '12 said:
The online mode was crap anyway, it was so hard and such a mess just trying to get into a game. I just wist they had an offline mode using the content of the online mode, something like an Elimination Mode against bots on the maps where you could pick any character that you wanted to and then play however you wanted to, silent and stealthy or guns going loud, that would have been fun. they could have a few trophy's as well. In fact I think they should add that mode now before they shut it down.
Noobsaibot on 15 Feb '12 said:
Does the game have system link? If so, Xlink Kai is the answer.
* Goes back to playing PGR 2 online *
Ali_ on 15 Feb '12 said:
Konami killed this with the ridiculous sign in procedure. They have only themselves to blame. I played for a while, right up until I forgot one of the four passwords or usernames I needed to sign in. Couldn't even be bothered requesting a new password by then.