I guess I'll never understand the angst generated about the released date. Every year I look forward to the new version as the game I will use for the next 12 months - not the one I need in April. If it's later than usual, and I want to play the current season, I take the time to make the major trades or create the most critical new players to get something close to RL rosters and fuss with that for a couple months. I admit I usually play historical or fictional leagues so the RL rosters aren't as important to me - but if they were, I would be pushing the team for a release of the new rosters as part of the preorder for the new version - then it wouldn't matter as much when the game came out - I could play the current season on v11 and xfer it to v12 when it was released.
As some of you know, I'm not simply a laid back guy who accepts everything that comes my way (history in point), but I do try and look at situations as to their REAL meaning to me before I get all wound up about something that is out of my control. OOTP is the game I've spent more time with than any other game I ever bought (Mafia 1 and 2 could have been on top but the stories were too short lol). As such I'll wait till June to get it and not get too excited. Besides, I did buy iOOTP and am loving it - and it fills in my time as I wait for v12
