Generation of Delay

[Aeolus451]

Pavolink said:

Aeolus451 said:
It irks me when other gamers complain about delays. Delays are a good thing because the dev either says "hey everyone, we need more time to give our fans a polished game, so we're gonna delay it" or "hey, we ran out of time with our deadline, so we'll just release a buggy game and patch some of it later on."

There's no problem in delaying rushed games, like Star Fox Zero. But there's problem when you delay games with a big development time. A game in development for 4-5 years and get delayed? Something must be wrong for not going to be able to develop a good game with all that time.

Length of development of a game has nothing to do with a game getting a delay to fix issues with it. If that shenmue game would be released with bugs, it needs to be delayed to fix that. Most bugs won't be known til later in development and testing.