What I'm mad about with this post is the news I caught wind of about how you save the game. When you start the game you are given one save slot, if you want to have another save slot you have to pay 1000 "SV Coins" which is the games premium currency and this basically translates to $10. Now people have been complaining about loot boxes recently but this just takes the fucking cake.
A loot box, by itself, isn't THAT bad of a thing. The only game I'm currently involved in playing that has them is Overwatch and in that game the boxes contain nothing but cosmetic shit to make your character look different. Someone who is level 50 and has opened a ton of boxes has no inherent advantage over the player at level 1 who has opened 0 but the level 50 guy probably looks a bit cooler. This got shaken up a bit with Battlefront when the loot boxes started containing game changing shit like weapons and gear which meant that players who paid money had an advantage over those who didn't in a game that was already like $60 just to play in the first place.
But that's nothing, NOTHING compared to the bullshit that is being forced to pay money to save your game. I guess it's another character slot or something like that but even then that's bullshit. Imagine if you are the kind of person with lets say, 2 siblings who all love Metal Gear SO MUCH that all of you are willing to give Survive a chance. So you log on Steam, you drop 35 fucking Pounds for the game itself and you make a dude and you have a grand old time. Then your brother wants to play so now you have to pay an EXTRA £10 just to let him play his own guy because you don't want him fucking up your shit. Then your sister comes along and decides SHE wants to play so that's ANOTHER £10 just so she can make her character and play. That's £55 for the game and enough slots just to let people who live with you play. Don't tell me "just share the one slot" either because if this was me and my wife, I wouldn't want here anywhere NEAR my save files, fuck that.
The only game I remember doing this other than this is FFXI and at least in the game you can KIND of justify having the one character because each job in that game levels up individually. So if you wanted to play a thief and your brother wanted to be a black mage then those two jobs level up independently so while still bullshit at least you and someone else could, in theory, play your own shit. Also my time with FFXI was extremely limited back in high school so there's even a chance I'm wrong about that one.
What's even worse is that not only is paying to save complete dogshit but the launch itself has been SO BAD that there's been an apology issued in the form of 100 SV coins. So for your unplayable mess of a shitty Metal Gear game you get 1/10th of a save slot. I get the feeling that this Metal Gear won't be Surviving for very long.
I'll see myself out.
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