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Their marketing outright lying about the progress and leadership not caring made it "necessary" to catch up.

Why, what would have happened if they hadn't? Say they promised it for some time, and then don't deliver on time. Then what?

Then presumably some people would have been disappointed.

So instead they decided to crunch and deliver a buggy game with the result that other people were so disappointed that they didn’t buy it.

I don’t know which is the bigger group, but I wish they would have delayed it.