Care To Try The Metal Gear Online Japanese Beta?
Jealous of your buddies that pre-ordered Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots and are now receiving their Metal Gear Saga 2.0 discs with registration codes for Metal Gear Online?
Perhaps you would rather side step all of the US pre-order shenanigans and get started into the Beta right now?
Well, friends, Gametrailers user Shhhoff has posted step-by-step directions on how to navigate Konami's Japanese site so that you can register and earn your special access code to get into the game a full week-and-a-half before your smartypants pre-ordering buddies can even log in.
Get ahead and get your "manapult" on, and make sure to tell us PS3-free fools how good Metal Gear Online is.
Signing Up For Japanese MGO Open Beta [Shhhoff]
[via: AssemblerGames]
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Posted to Miscellany, Video Games on 4 April 2008
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Just a warning, this can potentially get you banned from the PSN. Konami have already sent out a warning stating that anyone not from Japan on the MGO beta trial will be banned.
Just a warning, this can potentially get you banned from the PSN. Konami have already sent out a warning stating that anyone not from Japan on the MGO beta trial will be banned.
Richard:
So far, there have not been any banned accounts, especially not PSN accounts. Additionally, to download the demo from your EU or US PS3, you have to set up a "dummy" JP account.
Sony's official stance has been one that welcomes international accounts, as I reported on yesterday: http://gaygamer.net/2008/04/playstation_network_you_are_fr.html
If anything, Konami may end up banning dummy Konami ID accounts, which shouldn't have any effect on your dummy JP account abilities. Users in the EU and US won't have the ability to attach credit cards to JP accounts unless they have credit cards attached to Japanese addresses.
Here's something I read on a forum I visit:
"Konami Insider wrote:
Here's the deal, we're well aware of PS3 owners applying to subscribe to the MGS Online Beta which is currently limited to Japanese PSN account holders (i.e. Japanese residents), anyone subscribing with a PSN id which isn't registered from a Japanese PSN account will not be accepted into the program. However, we're also well aware that a large number of unscrupulous members have signed up for a Japanese PSN as well. Any member who has signed up to the Japanese PSN with fake or invalid details will be flagged at this point and their PSN accounts suspended pending further enquiries, in addition all beta members have to fill out an initial beta slip sent to their registered Japanese address. If they fail to return this beta slip, their access to the beta programme will become suspended.
It is our effort to only offer beta testing to qualified individuals who can offer us quality assurances on the beta versions of any of our software. Members abusing this system will be reported to Sony (worldwide) and it will be our request that such accounts or sub accounts will be banned from participation in ANY beta program in future and in cases where information supplied is fraudulent access to the relevant PSN networks will also be restricted to them."
Also, sorry for the double post earlier. I was having trouble getting the form to work!
sow if a log in with my dummy jap account and download the beta. if i can ofcourse and i get banned, my US account will be ok?? am i risking allot, i didnt buy a ps3 to get banned that fast. thanks for the info