10 Video Games So Bad They Apologised
6. Metal Gear Survive
The 2015 separation between Metal Gear mastermind Hideo Kojima and longtime publisher Konami was antagonistic and sudden.
After all, Kojima was booted from his own franchise, leading to claims of professional mistreatment amidst Konami forcing him to go out with the unfinished and unsatisfying Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.
This incited plenty of bad blood between the publisher and series fans, so the decision to proceed with 2018’s Metal Gear Survive was quite baffling. Rather than win audiences back to Konami’s side, the survival action game’s brazen changes in direction and developer were seen as blatant slaps in the face to Kojima and his diehard devotees.
To the shock of no one, Metal Gear Survive was a critical and commercial dud thanks to its absurd microtransactions, poor programming, online difficulties, and generic – well – everything else.
To compensate for its inadequacies, Konami gave away free in-game items (100 SV coins and 1 Premium boost) to players whose avatar existed before February 27, 2018. The company commented on Twitter: “We know there's been some bumps during launch and we're working hard to sort out the final issues.”
Unsurprisingly, nothing Konami did helped much.