Quote Originally Posted by Polemists
Is this really that shocking? Honestly I'd be more shocked if any developer managed to release a game ahead of schedule or on time.
Yes, actually it is that shocking. With the exception of a 1-month delay of STW's Warlord Edition/Mongol Invasion expansion, CA almost never pushes back release dates by any significant lengths of time. In fact, they've had a tendency the last few years to release games around the scheduled launch date, regardless of whether said game is truly ready for release or not (hence why Rome & M2TW were both so buggy when they first came out).

So given all that, yes I am (pleasantly) surprised that Empire is actually being delayed.