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Re:Microsoft comes under fire for five-figure Xbox 360 “patc... by michaelt on Friday July 20, 2012 @08:15AM (#4270381)
> Wow. Version 1 obviously wasn't ready at all. Why was it shipped in the first place? I guess a good question is why did MS let it ship?

Perhaps the one-free-patch policy should change into a no-free-patches policy, to encourage companies not to ship unfinished games.

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Re:Microsoft comes under fire for five-figure Xbox 360 “patc... by dt7 on Friday July 20, 2012 @08:23AM (#4270403)
Did they have a deadline to release though? Release then patch seems to be the way to do things now- the last (big) game I remember noticing being delayed was Halo 2. It seems that since then the priority has been on shipping, then patching (which creates a whole lot of problems for the future, when MS shut down the XBL servers and we can't get patches for our older games any more).
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