Elder Scrolls IV Delayed

Gamespot reports that the much anticipated (by me, at least) Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is delayed until 2006. From the article: "In a conference call with analysts today, Take-Two Interactive announced that The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is being delayed until the second quarter of its next fiscal year, which runs from February to April 2006. While this is still technically within Microsoft's 14-week "launch window" for the Xbox 360, it means that the game will not be on sale when the console arrives in stores on November 22."

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No problem, make sure it's good and bug-free.

[sgant]

But of course, I'm sure people will come out of the woodwork with the "They lied to us! I'll never trust them again!" rant they always do when a game is delayed. Why? I have no idea. I feel sorry for game companies because they're screwed no matter what. If they release a game on time and if there wasn't enough time to totally squash the bugs, people will totally complain about it and cry and bitch and moan about how blah-blah sucks and how dare they release a game that's buggy and we would have waited for them to fix it. Now, that they're taking time to fix it and make it right I'm wondering how many people will cry and bitch and moan about THAT?

They were even damned on some message boards for announcing this title! "Should fix Elder Scrolls 3 before you start another one!" some of the posts said. I swear to god, there's no pleasing anyone in the game community.