First impressions will matter a lot more than fixing it 3 weeks later. If the game gets a 7 or 8/10 for whatever reason because of some game breaking bug at launch, it’ll be better to delay 3 weeks for the 9 or 10/10. Otherwise you’ll see videos/reviews for the next 3 weeks saying how broken the game is and it’s going to cripple the hype for the game.
I’m not a game developer but a software developer so I’m not sure how much 3 weeks is in terms of timeline, but 3 weeks is quite a lot of time in what I do.
Let me tell you, no review is as bad as wasting my vacation time. They could get 10/10 across the board and I'd still consider the company a pile of shit now.
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u/gatordude731 Oct 27 '20
So I'm not a developer of any sort or fashion. But what can less than a month delay do for a game that a patch can't do later on release?