Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-71.31.149.225-20131209223650/@comment-1210805-20131210054338

I'm honestly not sure why people have an issue with the content of these missions. They're bonus missions, similar to the VR missions of MGS1, and 2, the Snake vs Monkey missions of MGS3 and all the Extra Ops missions of Peace Walker. They're non-canon. They have no reason to conform to the strict rules of the fictional universe. It's like protecting curry with a Sniper rifle, fighting a giant version of the enemy soldiers or shooting down enemies strapped to balloons. They're fun little distractions, nothing more.

The real issue is the exclusivity. It's a slap in the face to the fans and simply continues Konami's poor approach to handling digital content, especially in regards to the Metal Gear franchise. First we had Rising with it's store based pre-order DLC, then the region specific free give away of VR missions, and now they've screwed it up even more by making the story based DLC free in the US, and on Xbox in Europe, the UK, Australia and New Zealand, but still full price on PS3. And though they've bundled all the pre-order DLC into the new Japanese special edition, it remains unavailable elsewhere. Now they're making it impossible to get all the content for GZ unless you buy it twice. That's after trying to get people to pay 150% of the cost of a new game to get the full MGSV experience AND not counting any DLC they release in the future.