Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-114.4.79.131-20151130162201/@comment-1824272-20151203081312

There's only three possibilities that I can see out of this:


 * 1) The Chinese data mining community that has been cracking Infinity updates decided to pull one over us. But now that a bunch of gaming websites are reporting on it, they decided to backtrack on everything before it got out of control.
 * 2) Bandai Namco was merely testing what an "AC7" event may look like, and wasn't actually planning to do anything with it. Now that a bunch of gaming websites are reporting on it as if it's real, they need to remove everything.
 * 3) AC7 is real, and Bandai Namco is trying to cover their tracks because these leaks will reduce their stockholders' trust in their ability to keep basic game data secure.

(1) is entirely possible, but I think it's implausible. Lying about AC7 may give them a couple of chuckles to see the entire Ace Combat community across the internet fangirl at the same time, but there's always the chance it gets out of control like this, which just ruins everything. They're smarter than that. Plus, they've never been wrong before about any leaked game data.

(2) makes no sense, because the event's data in the game was preset to run on certain days, so it was a real thing that was going to happen.

(3) makes complete sense, because imagine what Bandai Namco has to say to their stockholders when they go, "Well, AC7 is great and all... but these news websites got the news out early. Are you guys not good at keeping a lid on things?" This is a disaster for them either way, but they have a lot to lose by not filling that hole if AC7 is real.

But of course, being an admin here and having to deal with a lot of fanon material and claims, you guys should understand that I'm not 100% sold on it yet. But I won't lie and say that I hope AC7 is real and happening this weekend.