{"id":335979,"date":"2025-10-20T13:34:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2165494"},"modified":"2025-10-20T13:34:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:34:50","slug":"konami-is-switching-off-metal-gear-solid-5-the-phantom-pain-ps3-xbox-360-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/konami-is-switching-off-metal-gear-solid-5-the-phantom-pain-ps3-xbox-360-servers\/","title":{"rendered":"Konami is switching off Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain PS3, Xbox 360 servers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/konami-is-switching-off-metal-gear-solid-5-the-phantom-pain-ps3-xbox-360-servers.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain&#8217;s online services for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 are being terminated by publisher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.konami.com\/mg\/jp\/info\/870\/#en\">Konami<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Beginning today, players will no longer be able to make purchases within the game. Metal Gear Online-related DLC will then be withdrawn from sale from 30th November. <\/p>\n<p>Next year, the whole game will be removed from digital storefronts beginning on the 1st March 2022. All online services will then be switched off from the 31st May 2022. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-08-31-konami-is-switching-off-metal-gear-solid-5-the-phantom-pain-ps3-xbox-360-servers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-08-31-konami-is-switching-off-metal-gear-solid-5-the-phantom-pain-ps3-xbox-360-servers\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain&#8217;s online services for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 are being terminated by publisher Konami. Beginning today, players will no longer be able to make purchases within the game. Metal Gear Online-related DLC will then be withdrawn from sale from 30th November. Next year, the whole game will be removed from digital storefronts beginning on the 1st March 2022. All online services will then be switched off from the 31st May 2022. Read more Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":335980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Konami is switching off Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain PS3, Xbox 360 servers | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain&#039;s online services for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 are being terminated by publisher Konami. 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