Not just based on this recent confusion and back-and-forth, the OT claim window will move to a six-month-window from now on. This will avoid sooo many problems for all parties: delay chaos, hype claims, bans, keeping track of release date announcements ("year" to "quarter" to "month" to "delay" to "actual date"), people forgetting, overly long list, people losing interest, including newer members, and probably a bunch more. Goes for everything tied to release dates. As usual, random community threads don't even really need to be claimed but those who still do it can do so whenever as dates are a non-issue there.
Everyone is free to take personal notes on what OTs they would want to claim so they don't forget. Besides, it's not like anyone starts working on them a year out lol.
Can it be a six-year window please so I can claim Beyond Good & Evil 2?
/s