A small game for big game price!

Do you already know about which game I´m talking? Yes Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. Don´t get me wrong, I´m very excited about this game and I´d love to play MGS V: the Phantom Pain but it´s not about how excited I am about this game. It´s about the price you have to pay for just one mission. Ok in a way a lot of MGS games are usually just one mission that goes wrong and then you take much longer than expected, but I get the feeling that MGS V: Ground Zeroes is about the size of the part you play as Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. As you know this isn´t that much, actually you played almost the entire mission on the demo, which probably says a lot about that.


Some of you might think that thirty Euros isn´t that much for a game, no it´s not much for a game but for a glorified demo I think it´s a bit much, because there are plenty of games out there that you buy for thirty Euros and that will keep you busy a lot longer than MGS V: Ground Zeroes. Why couldn´t MGS V: Ground Zeroes just be a pre-order bonus for MGS V: the Phantom Pain? Then you´d be able to get an idea what you would expect in the main game and the game will probably sell even better. I can´t help but feel that there is a money issue here, trying to get more money from gamers by releasing a glorified demo before they launch the main game.


I might sound negative about the game but I´m definately not! I love MGS games and I´m looking forward to MGS V: the Phantom pain! But I´m just annoyed that you have to pay extra money for this extra mission, it just seems wrong and I don´t like this type of behaviour from developers. Maybe I´m only seeing the negative part here but I´m certain that this won´t be the only time, in fact it has happened before with Dead Rising 2. Do you remember Dead Rising 2 Case Zero? It was something that happened before the main game and you could download that before the release of the main game, which was still fun to do but seriously it took you probably an hour to finish that. In a way it´s a waste of money and you really have to wonder why they can´t include that with the main game, oh that´s right because this way the developers earn more money with it. I just hope this won´t effect games too much, I mean I don´t want to miss out on the story just because I don´t want to spend extra money on some bonus mission. It seems weird but sometimes I feel that as a gamer you lose even when you win in a game, because in the end you pay for things that could´ve been included in the main game.

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