Rant incoming... As someone who works in software development.. delays, missing features, cuts, features work in progress, feature loss.... Are the reality of developing software. As painful as it may be to a customer "user" who is emotionally/financially invested or dependent on the outcome of the development, all we can do is plan carefully, communicate consistently, apply the best possible technical vetting and estimate/work towards delivery dates based on the best possible assessment/assumptions we can make at the time.
To argue, "oh they had a year" misunderstands the reality of software development.
There is no certainty.
It is a creative process based on many variables and unknowns. Creating the weather system in drive club is building something completely new from scratch. There is design, r@d, development, testing, implementation, user feedback, iteration, change, more development, more testing etc...
If they were implementing a middleware solution, then yes, criticism of delays would be justified, but this is not the case.
If you want "certainty" in any form of game development, then invest your money and emotions into the annual retread of Fifa/cod, do not invest into new intellectual property where each facet is built from scratch, not mentioning the complexities added by a new software platform.
I would hope, with the recent stumbles by Apple and ios8, users would begin to understand even the best, largest, most well funded teams can and will make mistakes/miss targets/ when delivering software.
