Creston I agree with your point re: patches and the fact that the tab had 'already' been picked up. However, the sad fact is that patching is a way of life for PC games and when they need to be produced outside of the development budget then somebody has to pay for it somewhere down the line and if the developer won't do it and the publisher won't pay then the gamer gets stuffed.

BTW, off topic, but re: patches. Just seen that Digital Extremes who did Unreal Champ for XBOX are actually 'patching' their game, I used to at least gain some comfort that my console playing was relatively bug free cos Somy, Nintendo & MS has tight guidelines for testing...FFS though,patching a console is a scary glimpse of the future

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