We didn't like tbagging. It's the in-game equivalent to giving the finger. There's no need to be so rude.

Then we probably didn't focus full on satcheling you. If you didn't tbag we just played nice, intense, battles.

A true MGO fan loves to hate it. You're fully aware and voice the issues it has, and yet played it and got a worthwhile experience from it regardless. Few games can do that.

Oh dude yeah I remember seeing your name. especially that emblem. I usually take note if a name didn't have a bunch of numbers or weird characters in it. If you were able to think of and get a straight out name and not like S0lID_5n4K3 or something and made an impression I'd take note. Though I don't remember if we…

Aha that'd be us. We always preferred tranqs to kills. Going to miss that, no other game really allows you to do that sort of thing.

I was NakedSnack or Lt.Hawkeye. Sometimes Gen.Direction (general direction wouldn't fit). I also had WontonSoup but I hadn't played on that account in like a year.

Hear, hear. MGO did more right for multiplayer shooters than it did wrong, there's no questioning that. And now that MGO's gone we're left with online shooter flavor A or online shooter flavor A2. The difference being one has space marines and the other has "real life" marines. Otherwise, same stuff.

For real. I was always wishing for a Peace Walker ish update that would include fultons with a new game mode. You could essentially have a "real" "zombie" mode like that, knocking out and "recruiting" the other team through fulton. Whoever recruited all team members/killed all tickets won. An idea my friend and I…

That's nothing, I've seen some people that had characters with 700+ hours. On ONE. No telling if they had any others. Then again, that person was also a fox hound rank and like level 20.

Yeah, I know, there's no reason for our set up anymore either. It's really surreal.

That's a good question. Wonder if Kotaku could do a little digging. I know it was premeditated to only last a few years, was planned to be shut down last year but was so popular they gave it another year. But if it's so popular why not, say, add more content to it and revive the interest? Maybe, say, include it in…

You didn't have to purchase any updates, the only things you had to purchase were the map and character packs. If you were prompted to pay for a patch then you're doing something wrong.

I've been playing games since I was a kid. I've played all the latest stuff through the years. But for some reason I always ALWAYS went back to MGO. The core gameplay was so solid. The slower pace was perfect. You were about to really strategize and have fun your own way beyond running and gunning like so many…

Man, I had 4 characters, and checking out all the stats on the last days I noticed the character with the fewest hours logged had 93..

Good words. You're right, it does feel like losing an old friend. I've been playing it almost every weekend for so many years it's really weird to turn on my PS3 and remember I can't play anymore.

At risk of sounding all internet-dumb: I know that feel, bro.

Yeah, aimbot didn't exist, but there was this third party controller you could use with the game that was basically a mouse. I forget what it was called, but some people were really really accurate with it and it was pretty unfair. The "aimbot" cries lived on, though.

Yeah I never saw it under 600 players. Ever. And that was after they sanctioned off the America and Asia servers.

The last weekend I can play Metal Gear Online and the PSN goes down!? Ffffffffff

I'm guessing this game won't have a nonlethal option.