Microsoft stopped charging for Xbox 360 game updates earlier this year

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Mr Puggsly said:

foodfather said:
This isn't a good thing. Developers should be encouraged to ship the game in proper working order. This gen developers have been very sloppy with this.

Well the fees were no big deal to Triple A developers. It didn't stop them from releasing buggy games. This news is mostly great for smaller developers.

The developer of Fez claimed they didn't patch some bugs because expensive fees. However, MS claimed the Fez developers said the game was complete. Regardless, this eliminates that potential problem.

That's the thing really.
He got one title update for free. He knew about the gamebreaking bug, tried to fix it and it didn't work. He should've invested more time into really fixing it instead of just trying to make a hotfix.