Yeah releasing a polished game is great and all, but what about a g'damned company having a little bit of integrity and doing what they say they are going to do.  If you say you are going to release a game on a certain date then do it, I can even understand if something unforeseen comes up and delays it once, but come on this is getting ridiculous.  I guess not every takes the same view of when you say you are going to do something you do it. What happens at my place of employment when we fall behind for a deadline, we work  harder, pull doubles, do whatever it takes to get back on track.  So, for their repeated ineptitude and b.s. mythic/ea just lost another WAR fan...

Hmm, now there isn't as much pressure on AoC to release in May.  I wonder if they'll see this as an opportunity to push back again?

This isn't a delay! Isn't Q2 (fiscal) in the fall?

I'm looking forward to the game, regardless of when it releases. However, I'm not going to pre-purchase a game with no set release date. Yes I realize that even a "set" date can change, but I have never liked feeling like I'm just giving someone my money for something they won't give me until "it's ready".
Would you pay someone to mow your lawn if they said they would do it sometime while the grass is still growing? Oh but they'll give you a sign to put up that says "Lawn cutting coming soon!" and a promise that you'll be one of the first to get yours trimmed!

Its time that players realise that they should NEVER EVERY pre-order a computer game in the MMO genre.  Again and again and again we are getting games hyped up that are nothing other than bugs and poor gameplay.   It's time for players to say  NO THANK YOU and actually expect those devs to deliver a playable game from the start. 

WAR is not at this stage at this point in time - and it will not be come next fall

AOC is not at this stage at thsi point and will not be there come 20th of May.

Beeing a MMO dev is about beeing able to sell a concept BEFORE the players actually see what the game is about.  To get players to buy copies of a game that is nothing when it releases.  Both War and AOC fall into this catagory.  The devs are trying to sell concepts that are NOT EVEN in the games at this point in time.  And the overall gameplay is just CRAP cause the concept as a whole simply doesn't fall into place in a big universe of MMO game.