Swimming with Sharks: Polytron and Microsoft

Splitkick: Placing a monetary barrier on issuing patches appears to be a move to discourage tons of title updates for Xbox games. This cost also means the game needs to go through certification again before the patch can be released. So, in theory, the certification process should reject anything not up to snuff. In theory.

If Microsoft’s own certification process was bulletproof this entire situation wouldn’t have happened.