Metal Gear Solid 5 The Phantom Pain Retail Disc Contains Only Steam Installer

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Konami has revealed that Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain will officially launch on Steam at 12 AM EST/9 PM PST on September 1st. However, a more troubling revelation has come to light for PC gamers.

A user who received the physical PC disc early revealed on Twitter that it contains the game’s Steam installer and nothing else. Many Steam-supported games do feature this but game data also ships on the disc, thus allowing Steam to act as an authentication of sorts. In the case of Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain’s retail disc, this means PC players will have to download the game online.

What’s the point of shipping a physical disc when everyone will just be getting the game online anyway? Why not just have a digital-only Steam release? Honestly, this isn’t the most mind-boggling decision Konami has come up with lately and we doubt it’ll be the last.

We’ll wait and see what’s Konami’s official response to this though – perhaps it was an honest mistake?

Source: GamingBolt
 
My one friend who pre-ordered this told me this today, he even took off from work to go fetch the game from BT Games and play. He does not have internet at home...

But ja, incredibly stupid idea from Konami
 
I would be super peeved. This game is probably over 50gb to download which for most people in this country means not being able to play on release day.
 
blaaislaai said:
Lol the one at work, only pc gamer at work if I have to rephrase :p
And the only one who is excited about this game, im definitely not.. not a fan of any MGS games
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I'm just kidding. I would also be bummed if I did not have a connection and I had specifically bought the retail disc.

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brendanvb said:
I would be super peeved. This game is probably over 50gb to download which for most people in this country means not being able to play on release day.
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28gb allegedly, but yes that is a lot on the average za connection. More than a day's worth of downloading.
 
dagwood said:
I'm just kidding. I would also be bummed if I did not have a connection and I had specifically bought the retail disc.

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28gb allegedly, but yes that is a lot on the average za connection. More than a day's worth of downloading.
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Wow considering what I've seen I expected the size to be much larger... But that would still take me a couple of days to download. Looking forward to my PS4 copy with all content on disc tomorrow [emoji14]
 
blaaislaai said:
Lol the one at work, only pc gamer at work if I have to rephrase :p
And the only one who is excited about this game, im definitely not.. not a fan of any MGS games
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Well, considering I've only played bits and pieces of MGS2, this will be a first full MGS experience for me. I've never had the desire to play any of them, but getting a free copy and buying into all the hype has got me properly excited for tomorrow...
 
That's really stupid. The retail version of Ground Zeroes had all the files on the disk. The whole reason that people buy retail on PC is so that they can avoid downloading the game files because of download caps or limited bandwidth. Why even bother with a physical PC copy if you aren't going to do it properly.
 
dagwood said:
28gb allegedly, but yes that is a lot on the average za connection. More than a day's worth of downloading.
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Roughly 2 - 3 days on a 2mb line (national average, iirc), if you can download 24/7. Which most of us can't, seeing as the majority of ISPs penalize you for not downloading exclusively between 12am and 6am.

I would be pissed if I had pre-ordered this.
 
Graal said:
Roughly 2 - 3 days on a 2mb line (national average, iirc), if you can download 24/7. Which most of us can't, seeing as the majority of ISPs penalize you for not downloading exclusively between 12am and 6am.

I would be pissed if I had pre-ordered this.
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If you could see my face...
 
Really shitty move on their part. 28GB download, and any news on any day one patches yet? If there isn't one out yet, there most likely will be one sometime soon.
 
I think Jim Sterling speaks for EVERYONE buying the physical copy when he states: "FucKonami".
 
What an utter load of kak this is, and a serious dick move by them.

Why bother with the whole physical disk thing to essentially send your customer a pre-order key that they could have got directly from Steam anyway? It seriously doesn't make any sense to me at all. And to then not tell anyone about it beforehand and leave it for players to discover after the fact? That's just feckin' cruel man.

Can picture little Johnny sitting watching the driveway all day for the courier guy to arrive with his shiny new MGS disk, gleefully rubbing his hands together as he loads the disk into his drive, only to get a great big "FU Johnny - you've still got a day of downloading to do before you get to play with your new shiny, wahahahaha!" Cruel, dick move.
 
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