People are saying this is going to be a train wreck, because these guys has not even started with a wallet for Bitcoin Gold and there are no exchanges that are ready to trade with this. The fork will happen, but nobody will be able to trade with it, so the price will stagnate, because there will be nothing to measure the demand for the coin.
I like the features of the planned forked coin, but the preparation was not done correctly and this is going to hurt them, once the fork is done. ^hmmmmm^
Honestly, I think this is being done intentionally. Based on their original plans (pre-mine after the fork and offer the pre-mine as ICO), I actually thought the fork may occur well before October 25th so they could pre-mine.
Now it looks like the fork will occur on October 25th, but they will delay the release of the source code/wallet. This gives them time to mine before anyone starts pointing hash rate at their coin. Pure speculation, but that's what I think for now.