Maybe there is some unknown dynamic that is forcing them to push it back a month?
I also agree that after such a long development cycle, what is one more month going to do? Im sure if they took a vote and asked if they should release what you played in the closed beta on aug 31st it would be overwhelmingly yes IMO.
The extra month cant possibly resolve any real global issue, so perhaps its just kind of fixing up a lot of smaller bugs and shit. Someone mentioned the forums had pointed to this. Either way they should of just launched on Aug 31st. I dont see how this will make things better....I bet they have less players than they would have had...BUT, this games money comes from initial box purchase, and they said that ONE MILLION players participated in closed beta. Im not sure how many keys they handed out to people who did NOT pre order, but I would bet that at least 600,000 of those players pre ordered, if not more. I doubt they handed out 500k keys or whatever.
So that means they got probably 30 million off of box sales already. They will sell probably a quarter of that on Sep 31st. So maybe another 120k or so, if that. These numbers are based off of the closed beta numbers they have given. Anyway, I feel like its a bad decision. I dont see anything being THAT different when I play 2 months from now.