Most loathed/shitty game patching system?

Sorry, I didn’t mean Age of Wonders, I meant the fantasy themed RTS published by Microsoft in the early/mid 2000s. What the heck was that called? It was a twist on their history-themed RTSs. Had three factions? Aargh, can’t believe I can’t think of the name(s) of these things. I don’t think it’s available from a digital storefront at all.

Rise of Legends

That was it. Did they ever provide just one patch to update it to the latest thing, or did you have to apply a billion patches in sequence?

Looks like they didn’t: One patch to update "Rise of Legends"? - Google Search

I made 1:1 virtual disk images of the CDs to preserve the SecuROM copy protection to play it off hard drive but I have long since misplaced my CD key and disk images. I also saved all the patches at some point.

Street Fighter 5’s is particuarly terrible, with having to DL the whole game on most updates, and then do it again once you start it.

Throw in the 1 minute server calls when you start a game. I really don’t like servers for fighting games at all.