magerette
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PC Games Hardware has a short op-ed on some of the most patched games around (it's the slideshow at the bottom of the page) including Fallout 3 with a modest 6 patches, The Witcher(7), Gothic 3(14) and Vampire the Masquerade:Bloodlines(31). Obviously some of these are content patches or the like, and don't always mean the game is bad as they point out:
More information.Patches are both a blessing and a curse for games. What has been daily routine for PC gamers for years, is now even affecting the consoles. But a game that is often patched isn't necessarily bad. Quite the contrary is the case: Many developers offer new content or features with the patches. An example is Company of Heroes that received a DirectX 10 mode via patch. In C&C Red Alert 3 the multiplayer balancing has been tuned with more than ten patches and the game was upgraded with new maps. So patches don't necessarily are bad news.[sic] But of course there are also negative examples, like the unfortunate Gothic 3, which actually had been a good game but the flood of bugs in the release version made it almost unplayable. Furthermore there are games that are patched even before they hit the markets - such updates are called Day Zero Patches.
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