Why people still put so much stock into what Michael Pachter says is beyond me.

This is the same con-game that goes on after the release of every Metal Gear Solid game. (ie, "Oh, I wasn't going to do anymore of them, but they're going to do it anyway and I don't want them to do it without me," as if he didn't already know that.) Going through the motions of this little ruse after the release of every Metal Gear game is necessary in order to justify all of the lying that went on BEFORE the release of every Metal Gear game that this one is really, truly, honestly, really going to be the last one ever.