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rmdIf you're giving someone (particularly a kid) a gaming console (or even some of the games out there, now) as a gift in the next few days, take it out of the box ahead of time and patch it. Not only will you make it easy for the recipient to quickly get to the important business of blowing things up, racing carts, whatever, but you'll also avoid any server-side network issues caused by everyone else trying to download their patches on that day.
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Date: 2014-12-26 05:56 am (UTC)...because 'hackers' is a much more logical explanation than "hundreds of thousands of people all trying to download updates all at the same time", I guess.