[Commonmind]

No, it definitely shouldn't be taken lightly, and it's -- in my humble opinion -- a sign that publishers are really do anything they can to push games through the door in a timely manner, simply for monetary gains. The unfortunate side of that is the customer suffers, and the more unfortunate side of that is it's evidence that publishers are more concerned with concise financial payoffs and less with the quality of their respective products. There was a trend like this in an entirely different industry, music, and I think we can all agree that industry has suffered greatly as a result (of the greed of music labels and their unwillingness to put a quality product on store shelves).