Ubi/Redstorm announced early today that the long-anticipated (since release) patch for Raven Shield is now available… on FilePlanet.

Let’s just say that the meeting of these two disparate events at the same point in space time fills me with teh rage

The bulk of this post will be the patch and it’s shortcomings, but I’ll use this space to bitch briefly about the patch-distribution schema (or lack thereof)

Here’s the quick-n-dirty for ya Ubi - If you release a game YOU MUST HOST THE PATCHES. Period. Full Stop. Etcetera. If you want to also supply them to FilePlanet as an official mirror go nuts but don’t force people who pay your fucking salary to wait in some grab ass queue because you’re too cheap to buy an extra 3mb of bandwidth.

Continue for the full-on bitch fest.

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