Lol. Grow tired if you will, Morgan, but it won’t prevent me from disagreeing or pointing out fallacies in an argument. No straw men are needed to identify that you feel a certain way about Redmond. Ad hominem arguments don’t help you make a stronger point, though. It’s videogames and its the internet. Stop taking it so seriously that someone disagrees with you.
The article itself is about the effect, not the cause. The fact that it was delayed, in effect, demonstrates that the game’s quality was put ahead of “business.”
They could have released the game in its current state, memes and all. The effect would be that they would be putting business above the game’s quality, right?
You respond in turn by only arguing causation and strain to conflate the two. That does not make the “reverse” of the article’s point true as YOU posit. It only means that you want to take issue with what led to the decision that was made. That’s basically creating a false dilemma in order to sound like you’re rebutting the article, but you’re really not. No strawmen. Literally what you admit to doing.
If you had said “that’s fine, but it still doesn’t excuse the state it was in, etc etc,” I’d probably agree with you. Like Haku -or whatever his new alt account is – said ^.
But again, whether the parties or “personalities” are different or not, late delays based on reception are common place. You can carve out whatever differences you wish to, but this is not abnormal.
It was also the right call. I thought it should be delayed because I want it to be the best game it can be, and it sounds like it wasn’t ready. I’ve been vocal that I intend to wait on next gen, so waiting for Halo is no big deal for me.
I heard the rumors and mismanagement talks, too. I think 343 needs serious overhaul in the production department. But I’m glad the right call was made regardless of the cause. I’m happy anytime a pub makes a decision to my benefit. Knowing that their goal is ultimately to do things to only their own financial benefit, I am not inclined to dwell on the negative aspects of what caused that decision, I’m just happy it did because it is all too rare.
But hey, here in a few days, we’re likely going to see the release of another game that was delayed by MS after negative public feedback (Battletoads). Just giving you a heads up.