10 Video Games That Made You Pay For Essential Features

Metal Gear Survive was a game that had everything going against it before it even launched. Not only was the game’s zombie survival premise the furthest thing from what fans wanted from a Metal Gear title, but this was infamously the spin-off title that came in the wake of Hideo Kojima’s unamicable departure from Konami.

The game looked like a soulless cash grab on a popular IP, and that’s exactly what it was. The plot was uninteresting, and the gameplay loop of scavenging resources was dull and uninspired. Survive was simply an unenjoyable experience to play, but somehow these weren’t the worst parts of the game.

In an unpleasant shock to everyone, Konami had the audacity to charge players for additional save slots, a feature that's so commonplace in modern games that the thought of being asked to pay for them was unthinkable.

If players wanted to have more than the solitary slot, they start with they’d need to exchange around $10 of their own money for Survive’s SV coins which could then be used to acquire extra saves.

Even if this game was worth playing more than once, this piece of paid-for content as nothing less than pure greed from Konami.