It's kinda funny to gradually see the veneer of Sabi intimating (obviously falsely) that she knew the last character just sort of fading away as she entertains more and more rumours and keeps saying things like "I'm looking into it".
Since in the past Verg has sat on info until he could corroborate it with multiple sources, it's possible he has actually heard a name. Possible, but definitely not a sure thing. Sabi I doubt, the filter between what she hears and what she says these days is... minimal.
I'll be honest, I'm one of the person in one of Sabi's "private chat" and I can tell you that I have no ****ing idea what the hell you're talking about here.
Never Sabi ever enjoyed the idea that they knew Fighter 5. At best, we heard names that were circling around inside of NoA....and lots of them are BS.
If you knew the numbers of Rumour we hear, you'd be surprised to see. Fatman just speak too much on it, and even though it's not Even Everything stupid we hear.
I don't see why there would be any confusion. If Sora was in he wouldn't be told otherwise, regardless of when Sora is revealed.
That's sadly not how it works though.
At the time, he got told that the Square-Enix Character wasn't Sora.
Because the Square-Enix Character his source knew but couldn't say in the list was Hero, especially with how Hero/Luminary kept popping-up
However it was all for Hero spot.
And I'm saying this as Someone who knew Hero in advance, and with the name of Hero with alts of 3/8/11... And got told that Sora wasn't the Character/Neither was Geno.