Yes, there must be something wrong with me. I think we can all agree that in general, patches suck. Games like Unreal and Quake II which have both had a dozen or more patches are ridiculous. But I've beaten that topic to death, bundled it in the back of my car, driven it to the local landfill site, buried it, and left it to rot for six months in previous editorials. I just want to make a quick point that was omitted from the article.
Point release is only somewhat good for the person who has the internet.
People who are still in the stoneage due to lack of internet capabilities will never get these patches. A good point, though generally point releases add new content to the multiplayer part of a game, which is obviously of no interest to most people who don't have net access. However, if the point release or patch is fixing something important to the single player part of the game, or adding in a feature that was cut because of lack of time, ideally the publisher should exchange the original game CDs for the latest version or send out patch CDs. Well, I've just read the Point Release article on Planet Quake. Well, 'Utter Bollocks' would be a start.