Just to clarify, this isn't actually the case. As most things posted in this thread, it is an inaccurate paraphrase of what was actually said. As mentioned in the stream, this bug was discovered quite recently and since being discovered, the dev team has been working to get it resolved as soon as possible. Once it was discovered, Relic was able to determine how long its actually been in the game before being discovered which was approximately 4 months. So the "game breaking bug" as its been called has been around since September/October without anyone (community or Relic) noticing until about a week ago.
Thanks alot for the answer!
Last question! is today patch being delayed or not?