Konami now offering paid insurance service for MGS V: The Phantom Pain PvP play

Konami today has announced a paid insurance service within Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

For those unaware, The Phantom Paid Pain lets players go PvP with its Forward Operating Base (FOB) functionality. Players can infiltrate each other’s FOB, separate from the main Mother Base. Now, Konami is offering an insurance service to make up for any loss incurred during play.

“Your FOBs are always at risk of coming under attack. Now, you can rest easy with FOB insurance (paid service),” Konami said on its blog. “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.”

The insurance covers the following:

• 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.

It does not cover:

• 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

What do you make of this move by Konami?