Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10941901-20131118141832/@comment-1210805-20140103043851

Ryan Caldarone wrote: Nope, not a thread as far as I can see. I just looked. We know there will be an MGO3, and it will come with MGSV, via Hideo Kojima's twitter. The info I was looking for was platform related. Since the same game is going to be on four different systems I was wondering if the MGO portion would only be reserved for the current gen (PS4 and Xbone). If MGO is indeed going to appear on each version of the game, will the networks be linked for both versions of each franchise (i.e. PSN and Xb Live), or will each system be on seperate network servers? There's still more to it than that, as Sony and Microsoft have different views on region locking. And of course, Konami loves to make online gaming difficult; considering the leaps and bounds necessary to use their proprietary logins, accounts, stores, and services with MGO2-- in effect bypassing the PSN as much as they could.

I'm surprised there's no one asking these questions... since the game is pretty much the same for the four platforms, I'm sure both Sony and Microsoft versions can run the MGO Client on the same server (one PSN, and one XBLive), and Konami can stay out of it... but I fear the worst case; that we'll all have to make new Konami ID accounts, then make unique MGO3 accounts, then once we log in, we'll find that there are seperate servers and networks for all four versions of MGO, each of those will be region locked from one-another, and nothing will be cross compatable.... which means that everyone will have a very poor, and lonely MGO experience.

I haven't had as much fun playing an online game like MGO2 since the days of SOCOM II and III on PS2. Each iteration of Metal Gear Online becomes closer to "my" kind of gaming experince, and I have tremendous respect for the developers and programmers. I just hope my sour predicitons of the potential logistical nightmare are proved false.

Had Konami maintained proper servers for MGO and MGO2 there would clearly still be users playing ( www.savemgo.com ), considering the incredable lengths people have gone through to play hacked MGO1 on private servers. I think they actually talked about the Konami ID stuff briefly, and said that one of their major goals was to make accessing the online much easier. If you've played PW online you'll have seen that they completely ditched the Konami ID system. As for the servers, chances are it will be like all the other cross gen games, PS3 players will only play against PS3 players, PS4 players against PS4 players and so on. Trying to have multiple versions of the game interacting with one another is an extremely difficult process and often causes far more problems.

Microsoft and Sony have both backed off the region locking of games, and I've never been forced to have my games restricted to a particular region when playing online. It's really all down to Konami now, and again, if PW is any indication they'll let the player decide.

As for when it's coming, given how little we've heard of it, the fact that they haven't shown anything, and where they seem to be in development, it's pretty clear MGO wont be coming with Ground Zeroes. If they're smart they'll include beta access with GZ so they can actually test the game and their servers before the full release, but I don't see that happening.