The poster child for this practice is EA and its Battlefield games.
Nearly every full installment in the series has seen a patch released
within 24 hours of launch, and in fact it was the release of Battlefield
1942 in 2002 that led us here at GameSpy.com to make a habit of delaying
reviews for multiplayer games. The sci-fi themed Battlefield 2142, which
ships today, is no different; one patch has already been released and a
second patch (which should be server-side only) should be released by
night's end.
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