Console games have gone without patching since, well, ever and suddendly it's a problem? No, in true, pacthing IS a problem. Do you play pc game? You can count on the fingers of one hand the number of game that work without in hitch right out of the box. Yet I can name a long list of bugged piece of sh*t until you install the first patch, sometime released weeks after the game. True, for some game , such as Civ4, it help to be able to fix some little balance issue or others which are probably quasi impossible to spot in testing but the majority of game doesn't need these fix as they aren't as complex and hard to test for balance issue.
Allowing patching other than for new content is asking for crappy software. That way if the guy mess up then they have to pay through the nose to fix it and learn to don't f*ck it up next time.
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