What I don't understand is why they waited until today to announce it. I was waiting all of this time for them to announce the delay (which I knew would come) and then thought perhaps they did things right for once and actually picked a conservative date. Instead they let everyone know the day it is supposed to be released. What's going on? Did they almost finish and then not get it done the night before? If that's the case, shouldn't we get it in a day then? If it's going to take another week or two, how could they not know until the night before? Questions like these are what bother us. It just looks like no one at KONAMI has any idea of what they're doing or how to handle very basic PR.
Yes, KONAMI is not obligated to give us the patch, but that's not the issue. The issue is that from the outside they appear to be COMPLETELY incompetent. Everything they release is always late and full of bugs, and the only thing they could get on time, the European release date (which releasing late would have been unacceptable and unheard of from companies and games of this size) came out full of bugs, so they have to release a patch, which they have to recall because it's full of bugs, and then they come out with another patch, which they tell us the day of its release that it's not out and don't tell us when it's coming.
Have any of you ever seen this type of incompetence and PR folly on this big a scale? From a company this big? FIFA is terrible but at least it looks like it's run by professionals.