I'll listen to anyone on this forum regarding this IF they can prove they are in a genuine position to offer a better perspective on this than the developers - i.e. they have created and released games that have sold better and are technically proficient to the MGS series to date.
I'm not a MSG fanboy, as I've never played one, but this thread is getting ridiculous. Obviously everyone is an armchair critic (myself included) but seriously, the more recent posts are junk hardly worth reading - as in why would I take your view over that of a very successful developer?
One final part of rant - never sound like you're saying 'all games' should be like this: that's an immediate fail IMHO. There are lots of different games and thats a good thing, there are no hard and fast rules (you must compress, you must not, the game must fit one disk, it must not, it must be a fun platformer, it must be a deadly serious hardcore FPS, etc) and there never should be.
If the developers really need the space (whether because they want to leave things uncompressed or not) then they do - that's their choice. You chose whether to buy or not.
Try to be reasonable... its easier than you think...
