Metal Gear Online is running an insurance racket

As if we weren’t being bombarded with offers to insure our stuff, now Metal Gear Online is joining in on the action.

In Metal Gear Online, your forward operating base (FOB) can attacked. Konami is letting players pay for insurance so that they can “rest easy.”

If you sign up for insurance, you will be compensated for materials and staff lost due to rival infiltrations. Any staff or materials stolen will remain on your base, but an identical amount will also be handed over to the rival.

It also listed items that insurance does not cover. This includes staff or items that are not fully your property, wounded staff, staff used by you to deploy in defence of the FOB, and nuclear weapons.

Your FOBs are “always at risk of coming under attack,” but will some bases be at more risk than others? Let’s hope Konami hasn’t taken inspiration from the mob. “Nice base you’ve got here; be a shame if anyone was to steal stuff.”

Metal Gear Online features other microtransactions too, but they are optional. You can purchase MB Coins, which can be used to build more FOBs, but they will also be given out occasionally as rewards for logging in and so on.