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3. The Final Chapter Was A Victim Of Konami's Greed - Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Though Metal Gear Solid V received rave reviews for its best-in-class sandbox gameplay, there was less enthusiasm for its story, which basically stops dead without a proper resolution.
As was revealed on a Blu-ray included in the game's Collector's Edition, a planned third chapter was eliminated during development, a 51st chapter called "Kingdom of the Flies," where Venom Snake would pursue Eli and his hijacked Sahelanthropus to an island for one final boss battle.
The mission was never completed due to tensions between Konami and creator Hideo Kojima, with the publisher feeling that Kojima had spent far too long developing the game, and eventually deciding to simply the release MGS V in September 2015 without injecting any more money into it.
While publishers of course have books to balance and profit margins to think about, this really spoke to a wider shift in Konami's business strategy, where they were moving away from home console games towards casino and mobile gaming.
By the end of its development, MGS V was basically just something Konami had to get out of the way, and so rather than sink extra resources into a game which had no risk of being a commercial failure, they just forced Kojima to put out an unfinished product.