I saw on the Shugashack that Epic’s Mark Rein gives an apology fit for a politician:

Actually I did say that the patch would be out “later this week” referring to the end of last week. When I made that statement it certainly looked like a slam dunk it would be out around the weekend. The whole team was planning two days off from Unreal Tournament to work exclusively on testing the patch thoroughly. But as the weekend rolled around it still had some problems that needed to be resolved and retested. So, I apologize for that. You’d think I would have learned my lesson by now in terms of letting people know our expectations. I think I’ll just slink back into my cave in shame with my tail between my legs and shut up now.

Once again, sorry folks for making yet another release-related statement that turned out to be erroneous. We’re trying to give you as much feedback as possible and sometimes we step on ourselves when we do that.