Micro-transactions in Metal Gear Solid V are anything but “micro”

Konami, oh poor Konami, when will your insolence end. Despite Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain being a stellar game for us, as well as virtually everyone else concerned, Konami is messing up once again.

With all of these recent incidents – especially the one involving retail PC discs of the game containing no real game files whatsoever – Konami continues rolling with the punches.

The latest announcement implicates the pricing for microtransactions, which is ludicrous and makes one wonder if Konami are smoking something questionable.

The pricing is for Mother Base Coins that are used as for Metal Gear Solid V’s Forward Operating Base online mode.

Forward Operating Base is a mode where you build a secondary base and fight other players.

This must not be confused with the other online mode called Metal Gear Online, which will be introduced much later down the line.

Mother Base Coins are used to speed up gameplay such as to obtain higher levels and increase the speed of the generation of new platforms on your base that can take up to an hour to generate normally.

Be prepared to spend some cash in MGSV. Image courtesy of GameSpot.

The use of microtransactions reduces Forward Operating Base to more of an mobile game than anything else. You could easily spend up to $80 (R1,067,30) in a single purchase playing this mode.

Are you prepared to spend that kind of cash for an online mode? We certainly aren’t. Honestly, what are Konami thinking? Perhaps, we are all just Pachinko machines to them.

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