Actually patches are for your benefit since they can fix glitches and improve performances, in previous generations if a game had a game-breaking glitch there was no way to fix it and you just had to deal with it. I'm glad we've finally moved past that and I think it's silly to keep a console offline just because you don't want to deal with a patch or update(it should not "infuriate", that's just how technology has moved along, so you have to accept it), patches on the 360 download pretty fast so that's not an issue for me, though with how long updates take on Sony consoles I can certainly sympathize with PS3 and owners though(30 minutes for game updates and 60 minutes for system updates is just sheer lunacy).