Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-172.250.84.222-20160307011139/@comment-26249703-20160412085718

A patch is an alternative to an update. It's a small download of a few MBs that occurs the first time the game is launched when the patch is released. It has the aim to correct an urgent problem, and doesn't require the user's approval. FM keeps quiet about their purpose, most of the time, though it seems this time it was to removed the donuts requirement in Generations (Event 6.1). Not because it was too difficult, but because people were finishing 1st with 2 donuts and still failing. So it's really nice for them, however other people (myself included) were past that event and waiting to collect their reward. I'd finished the event altogether and was waiting for my Group B reward of 100 GC, but I think the patch is the reason I and others didn't collect it. If one was waiting for the tournament to end, then they would have got it before the patch was released.

However that's 2:00 AM on a Monday, in the UK. Guess time zones further West were lucky