Don't forget Warlords of Draenor.
They never finished it and went one year long without a patch.

I'm going to be honest, I wonder what Yoshida's team would be able to pull in a year of no-patch.
These 6 months of XIV have been quite something, everyone went to old objectives they never had the motivation before.

The game is doing good and I believe Yoshida, while not meeting everyone's expectations, definitely earned his playerbase trust.
What's one more delay if they say they need said delay.