As someone who actually works in game development, it boggled my mind that they just said "welp, we'll all be taking a vacation so there'll be a month delay". Like... everyone else out there knows how to stagger employees' vacation / comp time so that there are always people present to work on a game. It makes no sense from a business angle for a company to basically admit "well we're just not going to be working on this product for a while but we're still taking your money"... but then again you have people in this thread (and in-game) who are apparently overly forgiving types who think SE is their best friend and not the company that it actually is, so they'll get away with it for a bit longer.