Its also apparently ridiculous if they're trying to blame the ECB for the delay (I'm sure I saw that said by someone in either this thread or in the BA forum. I'd assume that all of the licencing and clearances would be cleared for your main asset before you announced the game! This is worse than anything EA has done - they had to cancel that last few NBA Live games, with the reason being "They're not at the standard we want for our game" - they didn't blame the NBA or anyone else but themselves... If they said at Oval press event "We're announcing a delay of a month to make the game as good as we want it to be"; then I'd be a wee bit annoyed, but I would understand. Not telling retailers/customers of a delay officially THREE DAYS before release, and then potentially not blaming yourself is why I think a lot of people are completely hacked off at 505. Par for the course with 505, though...