Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain Microtransaction Pricing Revealed [Update]

What a deal! Paying $80 for 6000 play coins saves you $20 if you were to buy them in 100 coin increments. It also saves you hours of playing a game that you paid for. You spent money to play it, now spend money to not play it! YEAH!

Yes Konami, we'll all pay you $80 for virtual currency after paying $60 for the main game. Sure.

Meanwhile back in reality...

If I'm going to pay $80 for MBC, I want 8,000,000 not 6,000!

That is what stupid and rich gamers do with the market

Micro (small, miniscule, tiny) transaction. What part of $80 U.S. is "micro"? I actively avoid MT's in general, and always read reviews on DLC to see if it's worth buying. I know when this hits the UK and here in Northern Ireland, exchange rates will be all but forgotten as per usual, equating to a £79.99 tag at the top tier. This is beyond ludicrous. They don't even bother hiding it now. At least Dick Turpin wore a mask. I honestly think some marketing douche just mashes a calculator like "ERMAGHERD" and whatever pops up, that's DLC/MT pricing. And here's me thinking that Evolve had already clinched the insane 'extras' pricing award, but it would appear they were just setting a precedent.

Two words come to mind.

And I won't purchase even a single one of these.

This doesn't really change anything. Just play single player and on October 6th enjoy MGO. Not that hard to avoid being fucked by this.

This doesn't really change anything. Just play single player and on October 6th enjoy MGO. Not that hard to avoid being fucked by this.

the game is too damn expensive already

Something tells me MGS5 could gives gamers AIDS and there would be a certain type of person out there justifying it.

Wonder if this is why Kojima is saying sayonara to Konami? This pay model looks like something you'd see on a mobile game built for suckers. Pay extra money or play at a snails pace. If you are just playing single player only, I guess it's not that big a deal. 10/10 or not though, I think I'll wait and see how this crap turns out.

Guys, there's a trophy for earning 10million MB.

6000 MB is $80?

It seems overpriced, but not hard to get.

WTF IS THIS SHIT ! ????????????????!!!!!!!

Why do people still defend MT's as a convenience feature? That's the dumbest logic I've ever seen. A convenience feature would be a cheat code; this is a blatant double-dip ripoff by scumbag executives.

I guess the one upside of this is that it gives me an excuse to turn the MP FOB stuff off entirely and not get invaded by griefers while trying to play SP content.

Looking forward to playing this game. Micro transactions don't effect me because I simply don't buy them

I thought the FOB idea was kind of cool until this, now you're going to be at an instant disadvantage to anyone willing to spend the extra cash to upgrade their base quickly. I know some people can drop $80 on such trivial stuff and not even bat an eye I personally can't justify it though heh, I can afford it but for me the money would be more wisely used elsewhere.

If you want microtransactions sell fluff content, new cool looking armors or weapons blueprints, I say blueprints as that way you still have to gather the resources in game to build them. Don't sell stuff that clearly gives you an edge in a competitive environment kind of defeats the entire point.

It's not a non-seller for me as I'm getting the game more for the single player anyway but I do like to dabble with the multi-player and this aspect certianly lessens my enthusiasm for it. When I watched the video of the FOB stuff it seemed kind of cool but w/o even have played it yet it's obvious to see how a person who can upgrade their FOB much faster will have a clear advantage over other people. This is especially silly to have included when you factor in that if you lose in the FOB that person can steal stuff from your FOB. So basically you're allowing players to pay for the privelege of taking items from other players. Why would I ever participate in that.

These are the US costs, I dread to think what they will be for the UK. I dare say that it will translate as:

Sony DLC/Micro Transaction rep: "And how much would you like it to be for the UK sir?"

Konami: "**** them, just change the Dollar sign to a Pound sign, we're ripping them all off anyway."

Giveth me thy coinage!

--i think someone needs to form some kinda a gamer's coalition
--where ALL gamers bond together
--and refuse to buy any AAA hardcore console game if it has microtransactions
--ESPECIALLY the kinda microtransactions
--that give you access you to content that cant even been earned in the game AT ALL(like in ESO)