Tokamak, at first glance what you say makes sense, that they should do as much work as possible as long ahead of the launch as possible to make sure they have enough time to iron out bugs in last days.... but, its for some reason normal in software development that the team works on things, gets distracted by things that seem little at the stat and turn into major time consumers and so on.... and its not only mmorpgs... just look at the other pc games... go count hpw many have a 100MB+ patch on release day allready because the dev team was so busy in the last days even after the dvd where produced. now, you might find a game where that isnt the case... why? they are the ones that are so heavily focused on consoles that the dev's dont care about patching the pc version. no, i'm not saying i agree with it.... but only saying it is that way....
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