Konami Introduces MGS 5 Insurance, for People who like Cheating

And you thought we were done with microtransactions? You poor, ignorant soul. Microtransaction Monday has just begun and-

-wait, it's Tuesday. Crap. Uh… Take-Out-Your-Wallet Tuesday? Bah, forget it. Day’s still young, and Konami is still a dick, so of course it’s going to hop on the Micropayment bandwagon and show us another glaring example of what’s wrong with this business model.

Namely, today’s the day that Metal Gear Online launches, that mini-game in MGS5 where you can invade people’s Forward-Operating Base, steal their crap and kill their soldiers, and then return to their own base to see you've been robbed while you were away. Looks like it has the potential to be great fun and extremely frustrating--however, if you’re willing to dish out some real-world cash, Konami can fix that frustration for you with a newly-announced addition to the store: FOB Insurance!
 

Your FOBs are always at risk of coming under attack. Now, you can rest easy with FOB insurance (paid service). If you sign up for insurance, then during the insurance period you will be compensated for any materials and staff lost due to rival infiltrations.

* Staff/materials stolen by the rival will in fact remain on your base, and an identical amount of staff/materials will be handed over to the rival instead.
* MB Coins are purchased with real money, but free MB Coins are also distributed periodically as login bonuses, etc.
* The following are not covered by FOB insurance:
・Staff/items that are not fully your property, such as abducted staff being held in your Brig (FOB)
・Wounded staff (staff lost due to death or extraction will be compensated)
・Staff used by you to deploy in defense of the FOB (neither death nor extraction will be compensated)
・Nuclear weapons

So basically you can pay to remove all elements of risk from the whole experience. Back in the day, we would call this ‘cheating’. I guess now it’s called a feature. Still, nice of them to exclude Nuclear Weapons from the insurance plan--now at least there’s a little hope that we can properly see that “Disarmament ending” that was leaked earlier.

Dick move otherwise, Konami. I guess you really have stopped giving a crap.