... and it was given to me by one I revere as a legend! Shit!
Today I wasted nearly three hours in a futile, silly attempt to get onto MGO in order to enjoy, in my opinion, one of the greatest multiplayer experiences on the PlayStation Network. The story goes thus:
I recently inherited a PS3 from a friend of mine who is going off to fight the good fight in the United States Army. As usual the PS3 was loaded with things I did not need, game saves that kind of freaked me out and useless crap that was clogging up what I felt should be clean and organized. I love the fact that I inherited the Black Box o' Blu-Ray as I finally about ready to crack and buy one myself.
I formatted the system to purge the things I did not need. Gamer profiles and the like. Afterwards I inserted Metal Gear Solid 4 into the moist, quivering disc tray slot, excited to finally go about playing my most cherished game on the Playstation 3. As I started it up I remembered something: installs! Really long fucking installs! Shit! I thought, I have to wait 10 minutes for this shit!
So I did.
After the install finished (and let me tell you, playing through the game 10 tens over the summer really made me want to throw Snake's cigarettes away) I proceeded to the painstakingly slow process of getting into MGO. I loaded that up, waited another 3 minutes for THAT to install, and then, lo and behold, the UPDATE MENU POPPED UP.
I've heard of the painful process of updating this game, so slow, so boring, with the same meticulously made psuedo-techno beat blaring through your speakers through the whole thing. I waited 3 hours. THREE HOURS. Because I have to rely on the relatively weak, yet incredibly overbearing wireless networking that the PS3 provides. After that three hours expired I went through yet another terrible process of registering for a Konami ID and GAME ID.
After several network errors and painful backtracking I finally had my account finished and ready to go. The time finally arrived for me to play the game I had been waiting my entire day off to play!
I log in, read the intro text and...!
The game tells me my free slot is unavailable because the user beforehand already made one. Then it suggested I buy a new one for $6.99. I threw a chair out the window. I was frustrated...
ARRRRGGGGHHH
Even recapping it now brings up feelings of resentment and hatred and all the other emotions one can feel waiting so long for nothing. But not only that I have to cough up $6.99 (in addition to the GENE, MEME, and SCENE Pack's charge) in order to play the game?
Unfortunately, my bank account is currently dry. And I have to wait to put money into it... So there. Even more waiting.
FUCKING SHIT FUCK SHIT ARRGGHHH!!!!!!!!!111111111
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...Wow. You can't even make another account on the same console if you're using a different PSN ID? That's pretty lame. I love MGS4, but Konami obviously has no clue how to do online.
@Pedrovay
That's precisely why the whole thing is so frustrating. I even deleted the PSN of the former account-holder, and that doesn't free up the slot either. Supposedly you have to delete the literal GAME ID through Konami's website. It's frustrating, especially for people who buy or receive used PS3s like myself.
Wow. That's utter bullshit.
Yeah, Konami pulled a couple of real boner moves with MGS4. The updates/purchases are direct from their own website and generally required peer-to-peer updating (which SUCKED) - I think they've said that they will use PSN and the Playstation store in the future for people buying/downloading things.
The single character slot per PS3 is simply total B.S. Lots of PS3 units have multiple people who use it and to make them pay to play is total bullshit. I can understand paying for an extra character slot if a user ID wants to have more than 1, but to restrict the character slot to the PS3 unit is just unfair.
I wonder if formatting the system would work? Of course, you'd have to suffer through all the install processes again, but if it saves 7 dollars, well. That's 12 hours of effort well spent!
I wonder if formatting the system would work? Of course, you'd have to suffer through all the install processes again, but if it saves 7 dollars, well. That's 12 hours of effort well spent!
@Elsa
Yup. Three hour updates is total crap, and it's only because of the P2P connection. I agree it'd be a much more fair idea to restrict one-slot per KONAMI ID, but the fact that they didn't is crap.
@FatherChesz
I actually formatted the system, not sure if I made that clear. It didn't work either. I think they have your PS3's information linked to your Konami ID when you sign in, so that they won't have people "abusing" their silly one-slot rule.