w/the 360, hotfitxs and patch deployment were part of a contract w/microsoft. developers could only patch a certain number of times in their contract and if they updated out of schedule it cost them money. I don't know the exact numbers but I assume it's the same if not similar for xbox one and possibly for other platforms.
knowing EA is updating w/the first DLC and has addressed they are aware of the current balance and bug issues, I'm guessing they want to save the hotfix & some money to be included in the DLC coming soon.
Aside from a one time graphical glitch from the very first MP match on day one, it's been smooth sailing since also.
I love this game even more than Star Wars Battlefront and also stopped playing Destiny so I could garden more.
Rocket League had several launch issues as well, just because you didn't experience them doesn't mean they didn't happen. There were several server issues in the first few weeks of launch, and people kept getting booted out of matches here and there. I watched several streams where the game's servers were just down for several hours at a time.
Forza was published by Microsoft and therefore had a proper hot fix system in place. As of now, we don't know if Garden Warfare 2 has a hot fix system in place.
Since you pointed out that I apparently didn't list enough, here are some more. Arkham Knight was a waste of 60 dollars if you owned the PC version. Fallout 4, being a Bethesda game, ad a whole mess of bugs and the potential to crash across all platforms. Starwars Battlefront was actually a waste of 60 dollars because it's a bad game. AC Syndicate had several issues on the PC: crashing, bugging out, and freezing on errors. Mad Max again on the PC crashing.
And now to be less aimed at you, I had three goals when I made this post.
Compare this game to the first title, because that's what's everyone doing and why they're so disappointed. I pointed out that it had severe issues at launch as well and that it took several weeks to patch, funnily enough no one cares about the comparison now.
Compare this game to other games because the people in this community are apparently surprised that there are launch issues. The result was people saying it doesn't matter- yes it * does. The point was to point out how if you think a game shouldn't have launch issues you're better off not buying a game until a month or two after launch.
Compare this game's response times to other games as best as I can. If the patch does come this week it's a faster response system then pretty much every game I listed.
