Well, it's not that horrible actually (presuming you have an internet connection). I suppose this would let them print the game on time and still polish up a few loose ends. It's not the greatest solution in the world, but it's a lot better than shipping the game and patching it weeks or months later.

by a date. They don't finish the game 1 hour before it hits store shelves. Most of the time they finish the game 2 weeks (or more) before the release date, then it goes to printing and packaging. Not to mention, review copies go out early etc.

So if there is an issue they find in those 2 weeks, they work on a patch to fix the issues for you.

or

they could delay the game 3 months like Little Big Planet 2.

Why are people disagree-ing with you, people are disagreeing because you are not a complacent moron. When's the last time you bought a CD that has skipping tracks due to a production error?, it just doesn't mappen, all these complacent little kids who have no concept of value because their parents buy them the year COD releases as they put it in their wish list to 'santa' just can't understand why it's a bad thing.

To your disagree-ers, I hope when they build their first home, and the concrete slab it's built on cracks because the builders didn't take core samples to check the earth below will be as forgiving of a post finish fix required on their home.

F you console gamers. Before this generation games didn't have patches...and they didn't need them either, now that there is a HDD developers take the easy way out. A lot of people buy console games BECAUSE they supposedly don't have to maintain the games.

I would be livid if a game was i need of a day 2 patch. You should all pirate the games on day 1 then buy the patched/DLC inclusive GOTY version in a years time for half the vanilla games price, it's the only way to opposed this B.S.

There's this awesome thing called 'play testing', they don't seem to do it anymore, maybe they could try that. Eg. the New Vegas intro bug....I find it hard to believe they could have missed that in play testing...guess they didn't think it was 'worth the effort' or something, too many resources spent on DLC integration....not enough on the vanilla games.

that is what fable anniversary is.

They gotta bring back those gargoyles!

Funny story: Fable 3 had a funny way of keeping the promises you made in the first half of the game and having enough money to defeat the darkness.

You only had to collect enough money to buy 2 stores in a busy market district. You then raise the prices to maximum and you turn xbox 360 internal clock 99 or more years ahead.

The next time you load the game, all the rents from the 99 years are collected immediately.

But yes I agree that 3 was the weakest of the three.