I haven't played it yet, but the simple fact of the matter is that no matter how enjoyable it may be while it lasts, $30-40 for a game with such a small amount of content is just unacceptable. I'm a huge MGS fan myself, but I'm sorry, I simply refuse to pay that for something that is so obviously just the intro mission of MGSV.

It's amazing to me how so often publisher and devs have gotten hate for things like on disc DLC, which people (rightfully) say should have just been part of the game because you've really already paid for it if it's on disc. Yet now when we have a scenario that is really MUCH worse, where a game has had it's whole fucking intro mission cut out and sold extra (for an insane price at that), people are buying it in droves and awarding it with great reviews.

It's honestly a joke

It's $20 on the PS3; consumers are essentially paying a $10 premium to see the game on the best platform, presumably because Konami knows people will pay it and presumably because there's a smaller potential market on the new consoles (PS4 sales of Ground Zeroes say otherwise) due to the smaller install base.

$20 isn't much of a value for a prologue considering that this was the kind of thing that used to be packed in with a game previously to boost sales of an average title. $30 is even worse considering the types of titles that are available at that discounted price.

But... the point of packaging Ground Zeroes and selling it as a separate product is essentially as a service for the die hard Metal Gear fans who would rather not wait for Phantom Pain. I'd say it also helps finance Phantom Pain, but that game will sell enough copies that Konami could have just given away Ground Zeroes as a promo attached to another Konami title (which would mean paying $60 for the game just to play the prologue).

So for Metal Gear fans and collectors who want another MGS item or just don't want to wait for the full game to be finished, it's worth it.

For anyone else, I could see why they would be understandably upset if they paid $30 for something that was just a teaser of a full title game.

But in that case you don't think barely any game is worth your time. An full price game is £40, and not many games last 40h.

That's true, but most games I don't get at launch, or subsequently replay. I can get around 30-40 hours out if even short games like The Last of Us, by replaying it a couple months after I completed it. 

Then you can do the same with GZ, wait for a price drop and replay it.

I really don't like the direction MGS has been taken in. I really doesn't excel at anything these days. And the story jut gets worse and worse. I think I wont be buying MGS again. This latest prologue just reasserts my feelings stronger, that MGS kinda sucks these days the way Resident Evil does.

I guess this is good bye Metal Gear for me. Over the last 6 years Ive said goodbye to Final Fantasy, Resi and now Metal Gear. Theay are all below average series now IMO.

Such a shame that talent from Japan like Lost Odyssey is left on shelves. It blows away the 3 mentioned series above these days.

Should we also complain that non-AAA games cost 60,00 dollars as well and are shit?

Or if going by duration a RPG should charge 300,00 since a lot of "full-game" you finish in less than 10 h and you won't ever look at them again?

The only trend I see in this is a dev charging less because the game is shorter than average, more companies should do it.

around 3 out of 5 who bought it disagree with your first sentence

but other then that agreed, if you dont want it dont get it

I'm sorry but what? This is dangerous to the industry because companies could try to sell their game in sections, example prologue, chapter 1, chapter 2 etc for a ridiculous price. Also to prove how absurd the price of Ground Zeroes is, Dead Rising Case Zero was about $5

Well don't think you pooled this proportion but I wouldn't doubt it. And this is why I said in a different post that I would be favorable to devs stating standard duration on normal to complete the game (on normal)  and time to 100%