Game developers, generally speaking, don't like leaks. Infinity Nikki studio Infold, for instance, recently described leaks as "poison to all creation." That's maybe a bit much, but it does capture the broad sentiment: When you're working on something that's meant to be a surprise, and someone blows that surprise, it sucks.
Developers do what they can to prevent leaks, but sometimes there's just no getting around it. Such is the case with Battlefield 6: Technical director Christian Buhl told IGN that Ripple Effect (formerly DICE LA) "did not want leaks," but it did want as much feedback from players as possible—and that meant rolling the dice.
Sure enough, that's exactly what happened: The Battlefield Labs program is technically a closed testing platform, but it's been leaking like a sieve pretty much from the word go. That came as no surprise to developers—Buhl said he made a "big presentation" at one point where he asked rhetorically, and answered, "What will leak? Everything"—and it was ultimately viewed as a necessary price to pay: "We weren't seeking leaks, but we knew that the most important thing was to get the game in front of players, get real feedback from players, get real telemetry, real data, and that had to come at any cost, including the fact that things would leak."
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