I tought it would come in December 2017 by default, never knew it was suposed to come out earlier than that originally.

the delay is probably because they realized they needed to write an original script instead of re-filming the empire strikes back.

"Last week we mentioned Bel Powely and Gina Rodrigues. Now I heard Gina didn’t get it. Now I am told Episode VIII has been pushed about a month. Rian Johnson is going to do another rewrite, and I heard an Asian actress got the role Bel and Gina were up for. But I don’t know if the Bel Powely thing will work out.

I said before there were two young female roles, now I actually heard that the rewrite will make these roles smaller. They want to get to know better the characters they already have. So the new rewrite is shrinking the new roles in order to spend more time with Rey, Poe and so on."

http://www.starwarsnewsnet.com/2016/01/rumor-has-star-wars-episode-viii-filming-been-pushed-back-to-february-new-asian-actress-in-contention.html

Sucks but I knew it was going to happen. Once Disney got a taste of that Christmas cash bonanza, it was just too easy to move the film back and give the filmmakers a few extra months to let it breathe.

Good, give them more time to make something original. The sales will be well down from the first film, you can tell it will just be fan reaction and previous prequel trilogy trend.

Well compared to the time fans had to wait between the releases of all the other movies, i think we aren't too bad. And actually one each December sounds fine to me

They'd better put Galactic Conquest in there, or else...

And campaign and actual weapon balancing and fewer microtransactions and...

Two years between releases still isn't very long compared to the first six... Seems reasonable for a movie that big.