Vitek: It makes pre-release hype more important than game quality. If people buy the game before they know how good it is, companies will be more likely to pour money into marketing to sell the game instead to developement to make better game. If people waited for reviews, then they would mostly buy only good games instead of getting shitty/broken from pre-orders then devs would be more encouraged to make better games and those shitty out would die out more easily by themselves.

Emperor_of_Mars: Good. I waited half a year longer for Divinity OS, and it was worth it. So im fine with this delay as long as the final game is good.

rodrolliv: Instead of "Don't preorder at all", the message should be along the lines of "Don't preorder from companies who have a history in screwing up at quality, and support the ones who have shown more concern in that area in the past". But then again, I'm quite biased in the issue.

Emperor_of_Mars: Good. I waited half a year longer for Divinity OS, and it was worth it. So im fine with this delay as long as the final game is good.

Tormentfan: Interesting.. A post from codex.

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-its-made-of-rape.80281/page-149#post-3635119

Looks like that one Neogaf member was right about CDProject having production problems with the game.

"it looks like many gaffers are painting CDP as some magical dev studio with only the best of interests of the gamers in mind. Trust me they are not. The bullshitting with the Witcher 3 started from day 1. PR is creating an overblown vision of a game that doesn't exist while the team is in crazy crunch time for over a year now. There's some bad shit going on that if GAF knew GAF would not like."

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=132704069&postcount=310

Normally this user would be ban for spreading fud, but he was verified by a mod. Meaning he's either a developer on it or has some sort of a close connection with CDProject.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=132744341&postcount=359

2 Months later we got a trailer with that shows a downgrade and now the announcement of a delay. Going to be interesting to see if the game ends up being a mess or a disappointment.

realkman666: Console compromise confirmed? Crikey ol' Christ and crumpets.

Tormentfan: ...

Tormentfan: We got a fine combat system, one of the best in years in fact, but the actual story and characters were really dull and boring, I KS'd and was, all in all, quite disappointed.

Fenixp: Yeah, story was poor. Encounter design, exploration, location design, combat system, levelling system... Just about everything else a success, IMO. I'd call that a good thing.

Solei: FFS !

I was really looking forward to play through it this winter when there's not much else to do. Spring and summertime is the worst time for such games to be released ( for me, at least.)
/rant

To say something positive, i hope this extra time will allow CDPR to add more content, land and stuff to explore - and more optimizations and less bugs from day 1.