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Metal Gear Solid 3 Servers Shutting Down
February 27, 2007 - Konami has announced through its Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence support site that it will be shutting down the online game in North America on April 2, 2007. Launched just under a year ago, Subsistence is the second highest-rated PlayStation 2 game on IGN. But apparently there isn't enough online activity for Konami to justify keeping the servers running.
"Konami sincerely thanks all of the Subsistence online community for their dedication to the game and support of the Metal Gear Solid series," a message reads on the support site. Konami also reminds users that Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops is currently available for the PSP with online gameplay.
If you haven't checked out Subsistence's online game, you still have a month to do so. No word, yet, on what is to come of servers in the UK.
This is why we can't have nice things.
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They must need some money for the law suit over that subliminal slot machine thing.
"If you want to play online, you'll have to pick up our BRAND NEW PSP GAME AND A PSP OF COURSE ALL YOU WANT FOR ST. PATRIX DAY IZ A PEE ESS PEE"
noooo
The game sessions are still held by the players. Konami just handled stats, rankings, and listing the available games.
So is it possible just to LAN the thing with a bunch of PS2s?
I have no idea.
If it has a LAN mode. People will just do what they did with PSO for the DC, create a server emulator.
I remember all the crazy games we had. Myself, Shim, Renzo, Sanjuro, and the crew.
I'm sure they just want to build hype up for MGS4 and stop handing out freebies with, you know, the highly touted selling point of the damn game- online multiplayer.
Maybe we should try and get a game going this weekend, a sendoff party.
I read about this on OC a while ago. It sucks.
MGSO doesn't have a LAN mode, so once it's gone, it's gone. The only reason that DC PSO is up and running is because players were logging packets long before it shut down so they would have a better idea of how the game and the server communicated, and there is a PC version of PSO that had a majority of the code they needed.
So basically, yeah, whenever a company plans on terminating server functions, it would be awesome if they would release the server software so that the hardcore playerbase who still plays on a regular basis can still play, and the company is off the hook in terms of costs. The problem is, a lot of PS2 games use similar if not the same online code from other games made by the same company between them, so if the code for one is released, that opens up a lot of issues with security of the other games still online.
At least Subsistence had all of the downloadable camo on-disc.
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That was weird because you had to put the camo on your mem card to work.
ahahaah this was me for a good while.
I just couldnt believe how badly I was getting destroyed.
The camo is on-disc, but you have to transfer it to your memory card first. So, even though the game will be going off-line (and I'm assuming the camo downloader for the original MGS3 will be going offline as well), you can still get all of the camo files.
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I do wish it lasted more, though. I'm sad.
I really kind of hope Kojima Productions goes back to the drawing board with the PS3 version of MGO.
I remember hiding in plain view as the entire enemy team ran straight past me, simply because I chose the right color to hide against. So yeah, it was very much an Online Metal Gear.
What a retarded design choice.