Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-6747658-20150826194634/@comment-175.159.163.39-20150827063920

Here are my thoughts on this whole leak thing that bothers us so much in these few days. But before going into details, I must say I still have doubts towards the leaked contents. So please note that what I say may be inclined to certain outcomes.

First of all, almost all leak source(s) are semi-anonymous, who are not named individuals or are not someone that we know in the first place. They claimed to have the privilege to play the game prior to the official release date, and backed their theories with detailed facts and screen capture.

While I noted the fact that different “sources” all said something highly similar (which can be a proof that what is leaked is indeed true), there is little evidence that they are truly different sources leaking the same MGSV story. In particular, I find it a bit unusual, for that Dutch / Spanish person to leak the game to be reliable, as some of us already said, he / she wants to leak but avoid Konami’s possible legal action. Think again, if you are already sued by Konami for leaking and you still do it, what do you gain other than applauses from the web community? The web community certainly won’t pay for your lawyer’s salary (Although sometimes there are people out there who don’t care about consequences). Furthermore if this same person tells people that he’s a Spanish-Dutch living in Frankfurt and had attended Konami’s LA boot camp, doesn’t that pretty much tell Konami who he is?

The other thing is it feels like everyone is only referring to the same leak source. For instance, Mr. X “leaked” the game info and then Mr. A and B help publicized them and then when Mr. C to H sees Mr. A, B and X are talking about the same thing, they thought the leak is reliable. Of course in the end, I don’t know the source of the leak personally, they may as well be telling the truth which I do not believe at this moment, but thankfully we will find out soon enough.

Also, while the screen capture and details sound convincing, I do have a bit of reservation that the leak source himself interpreted them precisely. Face it, they can be misled by Kojima, just like how Liquid was also misled to think himself being the inferior one when the truth is the opposite. The screen captures -- even though they can be genuine -- they can be out of context and misinterpreted too.