I'm going off of what he said.

• Why all the leaks? Scared you might get caught? "I am incapable of fear. Plus, this is such exciting stuff, and me talking about it ahead of time isn't going to hurt anything, truthfully. We're all chomping at the bit for it to come out. This is not bad. "

now famousmort is saying it was NOT controlled leaks.

If it's an inside job then yeah of course it doesn't hurt them.

If it's a real leaker it's costing millions of dollars. Microsoft's competition is getting very juicy information that will help in strategic planning. Knowing Halo 5 isn't launching this Holiday in itself is very valuable knowledge. Sony and Nintendo know a bunch of other release dates too such as Fable, Gears, and Crackdown. This is insanely valuable knowledge if true.

Also there's all the lost hype for the consumers. There's a reason the night before E3 Phil Spencer doesn't tweet all the game announcements in advanced. Advertising these AAA games costs millions of dollars and every step of the campaign is calculated. Leaks screw up those schedules and force last minute changes in the plan.

Plus it just bums out the guys working on these things. It's such a heavy feeling when you learn one of your projects was leaked. Remember how bummed presenters look when the thing was leaked a few days before? Titanfall was leaked right before E3 and Cranky Kong right before VGX. Did Reggie and the Microsoft presenter come out saying "You know I'm really happy you already know what I'm about to tell you." ?

So a MS employee has gone AWOL with uncontrolled leaks, and CBOAT is safe.

I would expect it to work the same way as games on demand/XBLA works now. The game will be tied to a console and a gamertag. I don't see where DRM hell comes into this.

"To clarify I was wrong about controlled leaks. MS wants this guy and wants to press charges. He gave away serious trade secrets." Shit is going down now...

This guy was legit, MS want's him bad.

To clarify I was wrong about controlled leaks. MS wants this guy and wants to press charges. He gave away serious trade secrets.

— atFamousmortimer (@atPeteDodd) January 30, 2014

Possitive publicity. Look how happy Xbox fans are right now.

Wrong, MS is trying to find him and charge him. This guy will be lucky to not end up in the New Mexico ET NES dumping grounds.

No this is not hurting MSFT, instead it gets people hyped in months that usually have little to no hype(though it will hurt E3 if it turns out true).  Considering they just announced Gears and on top of that all of this would be a huge week for MSFT.  That is considering if any of this is even true as im not entireley convinced.  Maybe some of it is true, while some is fake, not sure.  I do doubt it was controlled but if it was then great. Get rid of CBOAT and Thuway at the same time

For all the leakers, i get tired of hearing about them when theyre wrong just as much as theyre right.  If this was all controlled to out CBOAT which has become infamous in the last year then i find this news even better.  On top of that thuway coming in to give his two cents just makes it perfect.  Get rid of them both at the same time would make forums a lot better if you ask me.

If you want to talk about damage to MSFT, these so called leakers like CBOAT and Thuway are causing more damage than anything.    What makes it worst is half the stuff they say has been proven wrong time and time again but the damage was already done.