Originally Posted by
tyrlaan
When was the last time they told us the date was Oct 26? Seriously, have they reiterated the date since they first gave it to us? Which was in... August?
For you to be right, they would have had to been lying when they announced the date in the first place, which is fundamentally absurd.
No, what likely happened is they realized that the completion of certain aspects of the expansion were slipping into yellow or red status. They then likely redoubled efforts to try to keep to the announced date, because no one likes to disappoint their customers. But then they finally hit a point that they realized even with this extra effort it just wasn't going to happen. Someone probably had to make the tough call to get everyone to acknowledge that the date wasn't going to be met. Someone then probably had to convince higher ups that they needed to delay the release and then possibly wait for the green light to communicate this.
As people like to point out, Blizzard is not a small company. A release date doesn't move because one dude makes the call on a whim and 15 mins later you get a blue post.
If you think what I just outlined above qualifies as "lying" to customers... well, you've got a weird and unrealistic expectation of how companies work and what they will communicate to customers. I mean, what would you have had them do? Share their project plans complete with RAG statuses so you can feel fully in the loop? Make a blue post that says "I dunno guys, we're still gunning for Oct 26 but it's going to be tough"? I'm sure that would be well received by the internet.
But if you just NEED Blizzard to be the lying villains that lie, knock yourself out and remain ignorant about how things like this work.