Metal Gear Online PC Beta Taken Down Less Than a Day After Going Up

<p>The <em>Metal Gear Online<&sol;em> beta for PC went up last night at 10 PM PST with lots of people reporting problems such as crashing&comma; framerate drops&comma; and overall poor optimization&period; However&comma; the game ran fine for other users&period; Now it is impossible to run as the beta has been taken offline&comma; according to a post by the Online Manager for the Metal Gear franchise&comma; Robert Peeler&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;steamcommunity&period;com&sol;app&sol;287700&sol;discussions&sol;0&sol;458606248617355317&sol;">to the Steam community forums<&sol;a>&period; The post states that the game was taken offline due to a possible exploit&comma; and will return once the issue has been addressed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The exploit in question seems to be a glitch that would allow users to purchase Mother Base Coins &lpar;MB Coins&rpar; without the need to actually exchange real-life currency&period; MB Coins typically operated as Konami&&num;8217&semi;s in-game currency for MGO&comma; but it looks like the glitch allowed users to stack them up without paying a single cent&period; According to <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;steamcommunity&period;com&sol;app&sol;287700&sol;discussions&sol;0&sol;458606248617434499&sol;">users on the Steam forums<&sol;a>&comma; the servers are still online meaning that if you haven&&num;8217&semi;t closed the game yet&comma; you still have access to the beta and can farm MB Coins&period; If you closed the beta however&comma; the 3&period;7 GB download that the beta entailed seems to have disappeared from most users&&num;8217&semi; computers and access is completely closed off&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;steamcommunity&period;com&sol;app&sol;287700&sol;discussions&sol;0&sol;458606248617355317&sol;">Steam Community<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;