Well the more later it is released, the more that the game will get old and cannot compete with newer games with new hardware and the more they will upgrade hardware to more recent hardware and the more your computer cannot run the game.
My comp is good excpet for video card. My videocard is just on the line to running the game with perfect framerate and running the game with slideshow framerate in high quality.
I assume your computer is super powerful with the best videocard right?
I know this because I saw the progress of Blizzard’s starcraft ghost. They were slow and have troubles with Nihilistic which developed the game with Blizzard seeing the development. Nihilistic ditched the game and development changed hands to Swinging Ape. Development was delayed for a few months to a year for a total of 3-4 times making the development 4 years. Blizzard announced in march 2006 that the game is indefinitely postponed.
When I first saw the development of the game, the graphics were awesome. As the years pass, the graphics look too old and people are complaining how it cannot compete with newer games.
I just hope that etqw development does not go too slow that technology advances further than ETQW itself.