Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-6747658-20150826194634/@comment-175.159.163.39-20150828025240

0nighthawk0 wrote: A good example would be the Survivor 2299 Fallout 4 hoax back in November 2013, this fellow went all out by getting all the details right, website linked to ZeniMax (owns Bethesda), using similar site scripts as them, all those morse codes and hidden messages and even having a working telephone number to call to. Everything seemed like it was a genuine marketing campaign of Bethesda to promote Fallout 4, it sure looked official, and thus reliable. Up until early December, when Bethesda disproved it and the hoaxer admitted the hoax. But it ran for weeks and a lot of people considered it legit.

Which comes to show that, you cannot always trust everything at face value, no matter how legit/reliable it may seem. First of all, I am not neutral to the leak (*smiles*) -- I still treat the source of evidence with doubts. Screen shots are just a capture of a particular moment in the game and if I were recording the game play for the purpose of showing off that I have beaten the game, I would have provided more screen shots (which so far only two were seen if I am correct, one being the Ocelot-Big Boss cigar by the bike, the other the timeline shot), particularly scenes that have yet to be shown openly as proof. In addition to the 2 screen shots are the description of different characters’ background. Also, some people are saying that they have beaten the game and claim to see two endings, but just then, we HEARD there may be a third ending, and HEARD that mission 45 or 46 are locked, etc. So it makes it really hard to believe that the leak is genuine.

Remember, only the people invited to the Konami boot camp (or similar occasions) have accessed that much of the story, and (if I am correct) they signed contract with Konami not to leak the story of the game. Of course some Konami staff would have access to the full story, but I don’t think they will go that far to break things out. The only exception is the people who get a copy from retailers breaking the sales date, but if that’s the case why don’t they show their face?

I understand why the source, if they are one of these contracted people, want to remain anonymous, but since they need to convince the rest of the MGS community that they indeed beat the game and learned the full story, they would be in a dilemma of giving away too much details about themselves or too little for us to trust them.

In any case, I’d say it is too hard to judge if the leak is reliable, and given that we are only days to the release of the game (excluding the time it takes to beat the game), I’d prefer to drop this discussion altogether than to waste our time on a fruitless debate. If indeed the leak is the real thing then -- I’m sorry for not trusting in the leak for reasons stated in the last paragraph. If the leak on Big Boss being a fake is fake, I won’t be too upset, just keep playing.