Hi all! As many of you already know, the Metal Gear Online Beta, originally scheduled to launch today, April 21st 2008, has been postponed. Due to this, we’ve also put a hold on our regularly scheduled Metal Gear Mondays content on the PS Blog, to bring you the latest news.
Extraordinary levels of traffic from all over the world have caused the MGO Beta servers to destabilize, as such, the service has been unable to run. Because of this, we have made the following changes to the schedule.
The MGO team in Japan is currently working around the clock to stabilize the servers, and is aiming to launch gameplay this weekend of April 26th. We must note, given the current situation, this is subject to change.
To compensate for the delay, the MGO Beta period has been extended a week, now ending on May 11th. IMPORTANT NOTICE: Please note that your MGO Beta UPVCs will only be valid up until May 5th 2008, so please make sure to register them by then.
Please stay tuned to konami.com, the PS Blog, the Konami ID site, and Konami Japan’s MGO teaser site for all the latest MGO Beta status updates. If you need assistance, please contact us via http://www.konami-data.com/support/ and you can email us at mgobetasupport@konami.com.
We would like to apologize for this inconvenience, and thank you for your patience. We know that you can’t wait to get started with Metal Gear Online, and we truly appreciate your enthusiasm, as well as your participation in the MGO Beta test – which really helps make MGO the best it can be!
Thank you!
home delay too? por que.
Actually, there are people in the United States who speak languages other than English.
Take your racist ignorance somewhere else.
you know? i’m not even concerned about this what i’m concerned about is not being able to download this update. its just not doing it. and there is tons more having the same problem.
Hmm!? Ok I’ll wait till then, I rather wait for them to fix the problem now, and wait for it, than play it go through the problem, and have to wait till they fix it. Thanks for the update.
Considering that the Playstation is a Japanese product, you’re pretty damn lucky that other people aren’t as ignorant as you (or you’d have a pretty tough time translating the menus).
Again, take your racist ignorance elsewhere. This is absolutely no place for those types of comments.
Language isn’t a race, this is the US.blog. Just like the Us.forum they tell you to keep it in english. Speak the language or you will get people complaining and tell you to do it. Don’t be a A-hole and speak english.
Ultimate FAIL. Now how does one who plans on purchasing the COD4 Map Packs this Thursday AND Grand Theft Auto IV the following Tuesday going to have any time for this beta?
Konami…you guys just lost the game.
#158
I have no problem asking people to only speak English in the blog. That’s cool. It keeps things easy to understand.
But if someone happens to write a few words in a different language (after clearly writing the other part of their comment in English) then I take exception to some jerk referring to Mexico like all Spanish-speaking people are Mexican or something like that.
It’s ignorance, no matter how you try to defend it.
And it has no place here.
Well, that explained why it took over night to download the update. doh!
Is this Brandon guy ever going to respond to our comments? My god stay in touch man, at least something…
I cannot take all this backlash, I’m out. See you all midnight of the 24th / 25th.
@162
Would you rather them spend their time responding to comments, or resolving the issue at hand? They have much bigger problems to focus on right now. If I were them, I would put everything else on the back burner until the Beta servers are up.
@Sony/Konami
Take your time on the responses guys. No pressure here.
I don’t care, just saying how long does it take to post a few comments you know? But whatever, as long as the game works for the final product no worries here.
@165 How do you make uour gravatar to show up? any metacode I have to type? Thanks
get over it.
add me on psn
wyldekat
@166: I’m not sure dude, all I remember is clicking my avatar to the right of my name and registering on like 2 sites. (wordpress.com & gravatar or whatever it’s called) Then you have to upload your avatar onto a site, not sure which one but I know it took me a bit to get myself. Good luck man.
Jesus. H. Christ.
If there were one game’s BETA you HAD get right with the PS3, it’s one related to Metal Gear. I mean, Metal Gear is THE one shining hardcore exclusive you can still claim as a very strong reason (if not THE reason) to buy a PS3.
…And you couldn’t get the BETA for Metal Gear Online right.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU SONY?!!! Did you not know that EVERYONE WITH A PS3 wants to play this? Someone needs to be fired at Sony and/or Konami for this lack of preparation. Also fire whoever is responsible for not letting us simply use our universal PSN names, rather than 2 ADDITIONAL COMPLETELY DIFFERENT USELESS ID TAGS!!!
I hope that you know that because of this, you have shaken the faith of even the most hardy of PS3 fans.
Way to go Sony and/or Konami. If MGO sucks (as speedbumps like this tend to hint a foreshadow towards) I’m going back to CoD4… on my Xbox 360… which has had the new maps for several weeks now… and rumble… which you STILL don’t have patched in.
hmmm…still no beta huh…creo que nunca voy a poder jugar este juego…
IT’S CALLED A BETA FOR A REASON, PEOPLE. GET OVER YOURSELVES.
I have a question about the update. I still can’t do it. I left it on all night and it keeps saying connection stopped.
And then I tried the bittorrent way, that still didn’t work. At my dorm as well at school. So it can’t be my dorm network.
Why do we all have to wait all the time?
HOME was supposed to come out a year ago.
Now we might have to wait until next year for HOME. Just bring it out now.
I love how they havent posted about the Home delay yet. Scared as hell. They will probably wait as long as possible and try to sugar coat it as best they can. I wish someone would just come out and say “Hey we phucked up again and we think we can get it done by blah blah” I’d have more respect for that then “We at Sony felt that in order to put out a complete and enjoyable experience for the user which of course is what we here at Sony are committed to blah blah blah shut up already blah blah” then I wouldnt be as pissed off as I am right now.
wow ppl
add me on PSN
wyldekat
P.S.
PSN is horrible and laughable at best.
P.S.
By the time you catch up and I seriously doubt that will even be possible, this consoles lifecycle will be over.
P.S.
I wasted 600+ dollors
P.S.
If the company is so commited to putting out a finished product no matter how much time is needed then why the hell did you release a console with no network? I cant even talk to my buddy while playing MLB 08 The Show which is under your umbrella.
P.S.
Playstation fell off.
@170
The reason its taking so long for the Map Pack and Rumble is that The developers have to make the Coding.
Then give it to SONY.
Sony fine tunes it or says its good or no good and if its no go they have to give it back to the developers to fix.
Once its all Fixed and Ready then its Released. Thats why you dont have alot of mess ups its call (TESTING). And most of the time its not SONY’s Fault Blam your Developer where the source cames from.
If your not loyal to SONY or a Fan don’t Come into this BLOG and talk trash then talk about your #*OX on how good it is. On how it gets everything faster.
Because you dont have to talk about a Machine thats already OUT DATED!
Because we Know how to WAIT! and we know how our Machine will Live up to its Name :D
Just wait tell this Thursday it will be in the STORE! and if not blame ME!
@176, 178
1. HOME will be released when its finished SONY wants to have things the way they want it to be, and Not a F-up.
They know how to do things right and hard at work on HOME and testing and then more testing.
There not about to F-up on something as BIG as HOME come on now grow up!
2. Dont blame SONY about that game Blame the source talk to the developers who made the game.
The Console does everything that it should do from the game because the game is just like a Program it does all the things that you programed it to do and if it doesnt then they didnt program it to do that.
PS3 does what it should do! and if it doesnt blame yourself because it works Great for everyone else! :D
Wish I’d heard about Home delay from here first rather then Gamespot.
I love my PS3 and PSP, but am very disapointed.
I’d rather see Sony group responsible for Home/In Game XMB and such release more with a lower (more normal) quality standard and fix as they go then the constant consistent delays.
Brandon’s availability is probably limited as he is busy working with the Konami team to ensure the beta is up and running by Friday.
I think everyone needs to calm down. We love our MGS and we love the chance to experience that type of gameplay online, but come on. It’s not that big a deal.
Patience friends! ;)
not a big deal,but please use PSN for the retail MGO.
delayed for just a few days, no big deal. I did get a little frustrated with the whole update and Konami ID thing, but all is well now.
The one thing I really want to know though, is about the LE Gun Metal PS3 bundle. As someone else stated, we are only a month and a half out now, info about this bundle would be appreciated. I would like to know where and when I should go and give my money to.
To the people saying that the delay is no big deal, you’re wrong. With GTA4’s release now only about 4 days after the beta opening, there will be too many people choosing GTA4 over MGO, making it hard to tell how strong the system is. Also, there will be less people to catch bugs, increasing the chances that one will make it through to the final product. Luckily for Konami, I’m a loser with no life, so I’ll have more than enough time to split between the two.
People have to give SONY a break,shure their network isnt the best,but their working on it .
This isn’t Sony’s screw-up, it’s Konami’s. Of course, this could end up hurting Sony.
I have a question about the NE bundle. I have read people talking about the NE bundle being limited. Is it limited or not? i sure hope not.
Thanks
“To the people saying that the delay is no big deal, you’re wrong. With GTA4’s release now only about 4 days after the beta opening, there will be too many people choosing GTA4 over MGO”
Good, let them. I don’t care. I’ll try out the beta. I already have GT5 Prologue to keep me busy. And a huge stack of other games. I’ll be getting GTA4 too. But this beta will only last a few days. If you want to try it out you’ll have to put the other games to the side and play the MGO beta. If you get too busy then you can wait until MGS4 comes out. Your choice.
How exciting.
if you like fps
then add me on PSN
wyldekat
i do not care if they push it back, as long as i get to play it sometime.
@187: Please don’t quote me like that. You took it out of context. In the original context, I was explaining the detrimental effect it will have on the beta.
Well to me they will continue telling us next week next week next week just like the home open beta and it the same game there playing here so until i see that they are out with these beta’s but Sony Really Please Stop the lying to us and pull out the good stuff i am a love fan that need to know the truth not some fake stuff but i hope u guy hurry up with these beta’s and stop teasing us *_* *_* and yea my PSN ID IS Dante101
@10 (erico316)
Sorry if someone else already answered, but you don’t need a 12 digit anymore. Just get it on the Euro PS Store, it’s free over there, no need for a pre-order or anything, just…voilà!
Could someone from Sony or Konami actually address this issue: why all the hype for the MGO beta only for US pre-orders, and then a few days before the beta, it’s available for free for everyone? Personally I think it’s better if everyone can access it without pre-order or anything, but I’d like to know why US customers were forced to pre-order the game to access the beta…
It’d be nice to get better communication from Konami, and seriously guys, no one over there anticipated the traffic on your servers? That sounds…surprising…
Hello to all of the PlayStation lovers one question 4 U. Will COD4:MW some day have the rumble compatibility? That would we F…ing awesome….
@chapin.
Infinity Ward has already stated they have no plans on releasing a patch to support rumble.
sony plz stop delaying things like home
Friday and i rape everyone of you in MGO 12:01 ill be on if anyone wants to add me im BKT_BONE but i dont hold back for anyone.
That’s a shame Brandon, perhaps you can talk Sony into some really nice MGS4 avatars for the PSN. I know I’d appreciate it, and my pine cone avatar would gladly thank you for the much needed break.
^^ I concur, MGS avatars would be incredible. Then all my psn friends could see the avatars and and the awesomeness of MGS4, thus increasing the game’s sales and popularity.
“im mad cause i didnt get what i want..whaaaaaaaaaaaaaa” why is it that most of u sound like spoiled brats. “sony sucks””konami suck”..shut the f up. dont like ur ps3 get rid of it, but a 360 pay 60 a year to listen to a redneck call u names, or hear the “n” word like 5000 times. the grass isnt always greener people. at least your ps3 works. no red rings of death. at least u didnt have to buy a game u really didnt want to get the beta (halo and crackdown-im looking at you). so deal with it people mgo will b great, and so will home. waiting is always worth it when it means a better product.
oh one more thing-SHUT UP
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