The Official Metal Gear Solid Online thread
I've downloaded the Beta at 740 MB. It comes with a trailer that's promising, hinting at team support functions like telling you where a request for help is coming from.
First thing the game wants is a patch to 1.01 through a peer-to-peer network, which is dog slow. 14 peers is giving me 40 KB/s, 3% after about 10 minutes. I suppose they want to test the patching mechanism which is why they have a 1.01 patch rather than release. They also test their users' patience! Also this makes me worry about the sort of service impact. UK ISPs generally don't like file-sharing use of their bandwidth. If running the game sets you up as a peer-to-peer node for the time you're playing, that may be enough of an impact for the ISPs to throttle-back usage.