![]() ![]() This happy feeling, however, did not last. ![]() So when I heard about a hack-and-slash Metal Gear game being released on the only gaming platform I have - the PC - and featuring one of my favorite characters as the lead, I was ecstatic and couldn’t wait to get my hands on the game. I never played because I was and still am bad at stealth games, and would much rather prefer button mashers. Watching my cousins play the Metal Gear Solid series as I grew up, I became fond of the games and the series’ characters. But more relevantly, people who are unable to purchase certain games due to region restrictions could also easily bypass this by asking someone in a non-locked country to buy it for them. People who wanted to get their games cheaper could ask someone living in a region with lower prices to purchase it for them. Before this, games on the popular DRM software could be freely passed between players in any part of the world, providing a sort of “loophole” in the system. This means that players are unable to trade or gift copies of this game to friends in different regions. No, I was staying up for the release because I was having this nagging worry in the back of my head.Īs you may have heard, on December 19, 2013, M GR:R was discovered to have the never-before-seen “ AllowCrossRegionTradingAndGifting” tag, which was set to “ No” on its entry on Steam DB. But unlike the vast majority who were eagerly staring at the countdown timer on the store page, I wasn’t here to be one of the first to start and finish the game. And that something was the release of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance ( MGR:R) on Steam. Or at least I’m trying to: every few seconds, my eyes dart back to the clock that sits in front of me - as if my glances would make 2:00 AM arrive sooner. ![]() The time is 1:39 AM and I’m reading a book about the history of video games. ![]()
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