Of course they can do it. But there are two flavours:
This might be the most depressing aspect of this whole thread. It's a simple one-week delay, well explained and justified in the OP, and you even created a dedicated thread so it didn't get lost as just a footnote in the Community Schedule post. A few clarifying questions would have been understandable, but instead we have a thread chock full of speculation and bellyaching that's distracted you - for a whole day - from the much more valuable things you'd otherwise planned to spend today smashing through.
Already explained. See the Dev quotes.
The explanation is illogical at best and specious at worst. "Let's delay a patch to include a fix that isn't going to fix anything currently active in-game". The current CG will be over when the patch is released. Delay the next CG instead. ...if there's even one scheduled.
Not to me, no, but I'm laid-back enough to continue playing regardless
What possible difference does the 1 week patch delay make?
its really not arguing against bugs being fixed. Infact delaying bugfixes for more bugfixes is bad. Normally you should patch as soon as important fixes are ready.
That isnt really the point. Basically you are delying needed fixes for another needed fix instead of pumping out fixes asap. See previous comment
Which is surely entirely sensible, considering fdev do not issue updates and patches every week. It does seem to make sense to wait a week so that something they deem important can be added, rather than waiting to bundle it in to a later patch?
Let's go for two then. Heck, just skip Update 7 and jump right to Update 8 sometime next month. ...a cornucopia of fixes and improvements.
That makes 2 of us...That's actually what got me excited for the Beyond updates. Not the new features or gameplay, but a major internal refactoring of the code. That's what I took was happening - sadly, that didn't appear to be the case.
