Metal Gear Solid

[litterature]

"METAL GEAR ONLINE" was included with "METAL GEAR SOLID 4" and launched on June 12th 2008.
However, we regret to announce that online service will draw to a close on June 12th 2012 after four years of service.

Thank you to everyone for your loyal support of METAL GEAR ONLINE.

Please refer to the schedule below for a list of key events leading up to final service termination on June 12th 2012:

■ March 21st 2012 16:00 (JST)
- Closure of MGO Online Shop.

■April 24th 2012 18:00 (JST)
- Expansion packs and Preset Codec Message Appeal Packs will be available for free download.
*Note: Registration for new player characters will not be available during this time.
- Reward shop equipment will be available for free.
* With the exception of "non-sale" items.

■June 12th 2012 23:59 (JST)
- End of online service.

Thank you once again for your support.
All of the staff involved offer you our sincerest thanks.

Source: Metal Gear Online Official Website

[Jason_Hall]

Shame to see it come to a close. Hope this means they are working on the next MGO to be included with MGS5. Here's hoping anyway.

[MrGarry2u]

They said MGO in it's current form would be supported for 10 years lol

[SephirothGod]

I am actually quite sad about this... Reckon we should have a few games/servers in the beginning of june. just for old times sake .

[Topper_Wan]

Ive got mixed feelings about this. Its weird as I went on it for the first time for awhile last night too! to show a mate.

Im sad to see it shut down, I have phases of wanting to play it. Also, Im pretty angry, the money I spent on buying the 3 expansions and what will I have to show for it after June?? Nothing! I paid £40 for the game when it was released, then a hell of a lot more when the expansions came out. This is sickening.

...also, Call of Duty 4 has been out longer and they arent closing the servers, why should this close?

[SephirothGod]

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Topper_Wan wrote:

Ive got mixed feelings about this. Its weird as I went on it for the first time for awhile last night too! to show a mate.

Im sad to see it shut down, I have phases of wanting to play it. Also, Im pretty angry, the money I spent on buying the 3 expansions and what will I have to show for it after June?? Nothing! I paid £40 for the game when it was released, then a hell of a lot more when the expansions came out. This is sickening.

...also, Call of Duty 4 has been out longer and they arent closing the servers, why should this close?

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Call of Duty in general has had ALOT more sales than MGS4 since they release 1 game a year and they can probably afford to keep all 5 their servers running because of this.  There is also alot more people playing COD than MGO, konami are probably running it at a loss and decided not to throw any more money at it. 

[mont348]

Sad to see any online service retire i wonder if things would of been different without the hassle of the Konami separate login it probably put loads of players off.

[AnthoAsho]

Definately gonna be on this all of June now

[SurrealNightmare]

Yeah, we should definitely organise some fun nights for this when they release the expansion packs for free.

That's been one of my main issues with re-starting the fun nights because we would have had to use vanilla MGO and that's boring.

Still, I'm a little surprised by this news given the amount of support Konami have thrown behind MGO.

[SolidNinjaSnake]

Well I just heard the news... !

Gonna miss it... And I hope that we all can play MGO again but, for me that does include Survival too... Hopefully some of you will be up for that as well as a Fun Night.

Hopefully if they do another MGO, it wont have the same problems as this one did haha.