Konami Announces 1 Million Members for Metal Gear Online and Reward Program

Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. Konami's online action game, "METAL GEAR ONLINE," has gained over 1 million members worldwide since the launch of the service in June 2008. To commemorate this achievement, Konami will launch a special campaign, "METAL GEAR ONLINE: Commemorative Campaign," that will officially begin on November 25, 2008, awarding reward points to gamers who access METAL GEAR ONLINE during the promotion. These reward points can be used to purchase new online gear from the in-game reward shop.

During the Commemorative Campaign period of November 25, 2008 from December 9, 2008, all players who own a METAL GEAR ONLINE account (Game IDs) and access METAL GEAR ONLINE will receive 10,000 reward points each. The 10,000 reward points will be updated to account owners on the last day of the campaign, December 9, 2008.

Player characters who access "METAL GEAR ONLINE" during the Commemorative Campaign period will also have a chance to be one of 30 people (10 people from each region, North America, Europe and Japan) to receive an additional 100,000 reward points. The 100,000 reward points drawing will happen after the campaign ends and will be awarded the drawn winners on December 16, 2008.

A special GENE and MEME expansion bundle pack will be made available at a special price of $14.99 this holiday season.

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Great news for PS3 owners. I will be putting in overtime during this promotion! :D

MGO died for me when SOCOM came out, and I imagine many others will start migrating as well

I really should play this game again. It's one of my favourite online games.

I had no idea there was another expansion pack.

Too bad the game is Poo.forevercloud

Mr Lvl 1 :|

hey atleast Konami is doing something to make MGO interesting. but the problem with all the crap one has to go through just to play it . I do not think its even worth it

thats great MGO is better than Socomnaruto7777

in a matter of opinion I suppose,

but the whole shooting system sucks in MGO, you have to get used to not shooting accurately in order to be successful in getting kills(headshots)

I put in like 150 hours into MGO. It's a fun game. I loved the first MGO on MGS3. This one pretty much improved on everything that one had to offer.

With that being said, the MGS4 MGO was a rip off and I'm very disappointed that they made gamers go through all the hoops just to register a name to play the game online. I guarantee plenty of gamers said forget this and didn't even bother going through that process.

And don't get me started with the expansion packs. If you have more than one person playing the game you have to buy the DLC twice. It doesn't just go to the console, it goes to the player's account which is even more proof that Konami's intent was to scam people with MGO.

haha if they didnt have the sign up process they would have had the 3-4 million people that bought the game on there instead of just the 1 million.

But for the stupid sign up process it's a good achievement to actually get 1 million people to sign up

Hold on, how much did MGS4 sell and it only has a million MGO members? Interesting.

Hold on, how much did MGS4 sell and it only has a million MGO members? Interesting.

ReverseCycology

Doesn't surprise me really. I came very close to saying screw it and not even bothering to jump through all of Konami's hoops to play it online.

Hold on, how much did MGS4 sell and it only has a million MGO members? Interesting.

ReverseCycology

That's actually better than I expected, considering you have to go through the crappy process of joining Konami's service instead of using PSN.

Hold on, how much did MGS4 sell and it only has a million MGO members? Interesting.

ReverseCycology

People didn't want to handle of the bs the Konami ID. I know I was frustrated as hell.

+3.3M units are sold and only 1M are signed up for MGO??

ahhh wow.....does anyone else think thats just......well....horrible?

+3.3M units are sold and only 1M are signed up for MGO??

ahhh wow.....does anyone else think thats just......well....horrible?

masiisam

Most people probably sold it back used after beating it in like 2 days.

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+3.3M units are sold and only 1M are signed up for MGO??

ahhh wow.....does anyone else think thats just......well....horrible?

siLVURcross

Most people probably sold it back used after beating it in like 2 days.

Could be...but... MG was one of the biggest games to come out this year...and 2/3rd of purchased units did not sign up for the online portion?

It's not like PSN has a cost and MGO is part of the MGS4..

If I was Konami I would want to know why it had such a horrible attach rate to the online portion of the game

see this is one of the reasons why MGS4 could be on 360, none of the Konami ID BS... = easier access = more players= profitKGB32

Konami ID wasnt made due to some fault of PSN. They made Konami ID because the people over there wanted to construct a new Online institution which allows them to milk their customers. Its almost like an MMO...So even if MGS4 and MG) came to X360, You would still have this Konami ID BS.

And this is wat I was talking about in a prior thread....

"Obama wins election, MGS4 to X360 confirmed!"

Anything = MGS4 to X360 :?

MGO sucks,

Konami ID Game ID bs ruined it.

Too bad PSN has no standards.

MGO sucks,

Konami ID Game ID bs ruined it.

Too bad PSN has no standards.

TheOwnerOner

*Tries to figure out what PSN has to do with Konami ID* :|

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MGO sucks,

Konami ID Game ID bs ruined it.

Too bad PSN has no standards.

II_Seraphim_II

*Tries to figure out what PSN has to do with Konami ID* :|

reason why PSN is free, they let developers handle the online.

How many PS3 games have been release with BS online?