User blog comment:3RDRANGER/Battlefield Hardline Delayed to Early 2015/@comment-24422163-20140724185003/@comment-4563909-20140724220353

Well, if you mean more time to implement said feedback from the beta into the game, then yes. The "betas" for BF3 and more-so for BF4 were more of a demo than what is typically considered a beta in game development lingo.