Elemental Multiplayer Patch Delayed Until Next Week

"Rather than even remotely risk something that is going to cause pain (for our players and us) I'm just pushing it until the next QA slot which is next Tuesday."
It seems this realization comes a little late, considering the statements on the forum at launch along the lines of "No this game is done, if you don't like it don't buy it".

Is there somebody who had absolutely no problem with the game and is totally happy with his purchase?

just so im clear on what is happening here... the patch was unable to complete QA by the deadline, so it was pushed back. and in that intervening time, they are going to introduce more new features, that will require yet more QA... right?

ive been a software developer for the last 20 years of my career (not games, much more mundane and boring stuff) and in my experience, the way to meet QA cycles is not to keep cramming more changes in to a release that is already proving to require more QA than originally planned. that is generally a recipe for disaster by making it even MORE difficult to QA because now you dont know if the bugs you find are a result of the first batch of changes that didnt finish QA, or the NEW batch of changes that havent even begun QA, or some weird synergistic effect of BOTH... bugs that will now require even more changes to both sets of original changes, requiring more QA, repeat ad nauseum.

if a batch of updates misses a QA cycle, the message should be "this is good because it will allow us to be EXTRA sure the changes are solid during the additional QA cycle, leading to a more stable release" and not "this is good because now we can add even MORE stuff that will need testing to an already difficult-to-test set of changes."

at least, thats how it seems to me...

I really wish these guys would release their games when they're ready. This sounds exactly like the launch of demigod with the patches to enable something slowly being pushed back and not ready for launch. Imagine if they released Call of Duty and said sorry guys the game leaked out so we need 2-3 weeks to finally get the multiplayer actually online.

The game leaking out 2 days earlier than planned should not set back the multiplayer being turned on by weeks. They simply wern't ready.

Wake me up when one of my kids can grow up before I crush the game on max difficulty ;)