Whiny bitches.

While I'm not a fan of console games relying on patches, to be upset about this is a little retarded. First off, if Rockstar is to be believed, they didn't see any problems on the machines they tested the game on, so if anything it's as much Micro$$$$ofts problem as much as Rockstars.

Second, they are fixing it WITHIN A WEEK OF RELEASE. Are we really that sad?

And @jetsetlemming: Do you know anything about the actually difficult process of porting games from one system to another, especially when actual source code gets rewritten? No? Ok, didn't think so.

So they must just be lying about not seeing those problems during testing then?

Not a big deal, I just think people ought to chill the hell out rather than freak out when something like this happens.

Games have gotten more and more complicated since pong. QA is longer and more difficult, and its easier for things to slip through. If gamers don't want 5 year development cycles for games, maybe they should remove the sand from their vaginas.

Patches are inevitable, we're comming into an age where we have the means to actually apply patch code to console games, as opposed to before (means they run off an non-write able source). It is a bit disheartening to see that developers are now relying more and more on these patches to come out and fix their broken games, but lets face it- would we rather not have any patch?

DrNutt- While I do agree that we did get the patch in a timely manner, and that's not a problem for me- calling everyone "whinny bitches" is just troll bait. The author has a good point, our developers are getting more and more lazy, and dependent on these after release patches to help cut corners. Also, if you're going to call out "M$" on anything, please at least give me some valid proof that Microsoft (who was not the publisher on this title) was behind the "rush job" that this is. Microsoft did NOT publish this game, so they have little to no hand in the release date of it, if you're going to blame anyone (means you're so quick to wag your finger at Microsoft for supposed "foul play") Rockstar published the game. And while we're at it, saying that it's the hardware's fault is, as you put it "retarded". That's like saying Crysis running like shit on your PC is entirely your graphics card manufacturer's fault, funny how you point out someone elses assumption about porting code, yet make an oversight like that :)

Regardless, lazy developer is lazy- but Rockstar is known for buggy games as far as I'm concerned (GTA while impressive has it's fair share of bugs :P)

Rockstar cares about it's costumers, kudos to them

I'm not going to play this until they release a patch to invert controls. Seriously the aiming system sucks with regular thumbstick settings.

Back in the "good old days," games still had glitches. They just never got fixed.

"I can't help but think back to the good ol' days when developers couldn't rely on patches in order to get their product out on the market sooner."

Yep, the good old days, when broken games just stayed broken forever. Or at best you'd have to wait for new copies to be made and mail yours in for an exchange. :p

I've been hearing this BS for years about how patches make developers lazy because they can just fix a game after it ships. Let's be honest here, how often does it happen that a game ships out and is just completely unplayable? Bully runs better than many games that are ostensibly "finished".

I blame the console makers for allowing buggy and crappy games to be released more than the developers. Nintendo will let anything be released on their systems and the Wii and DS really aren't setup for post-release patches. Microsoft should never have let a game like Two Worlds see the light of day either. I still can't believe this has become such a big deal when last year GRAW2 had an actual game breaking bug that no one ever reported on but affected the same users that are affected by Bully (owners of older 360's). At least Rockstar is fixing Bully's minor issue; Ubi never did jack about GRAW2 being totally unplayable.

Well, at least they're getting right on it.

Confused. My copy seems just fine? I didn't realize that it was unplayable, some how I've managed to get through 40% of the game...

At least they're fixing it, I guess. Are you guys sure it doesn't work?