It's so sad to see, but patches and updates introducing errors is endemic to computers, in OSes, drivers and applications/games, and now increasingly consoles. Console games used to have bugs, but they tended to be small and the titles QA'd to very high quality on release because once out there, there was nothing you could do about it. Now with patchable, updatable software, things look set to get sloppy, and scarily the market looks like it'll happily roll over and take it, as demonstrated by GT's review of ME saying problems can be fixed in an update. Patches should be looked upon as a band-aid fault rather than a positive action. Firmware updates are more excusable when they add features, but certainly breaking things that once worked is going to seriously annoy end users. We shouldn't have to endure PC-like issues in our consoles!
