This can't work due to the release timing of the games: a game released in April is not ready for a major revamp by July.
You can patch out individual glitches and superbroken things (which was what they did with INJ and MK9) but what you aren't realizing is this:
A patch is not a one-day effort. Or a one-week effort. To properly do a major patch (like the October patch), takes months. First you need to analyze the gameplay, and see enough examples to know what needs to be done. You need to test individual cases thoroughly to make sure that people aren't complaining about something that actually has consistent/viable escapes or countermeasures. Once you make the initial decisions, you have to start to play around and figure out the following:
1) How much is too much/little
2) How does this affect the rest of the cast balance-wise
3) Do the changes we're making break other things in-engine; if so, how do we work around this
This means that the affected characters have to be tested extensively, and then matchups vs. the entire rest of the cast have to be run/analyzed extensively, and then QA also has to do their job to make sure that nothing engine-wise has broken or become wonky because of the patch changes.
Then you have to certify the patch, it has to pass that process and be ok'ed by MS/Sony, and be scheduled for release.
This means that to have a significant revamp in July, you'd have to START with the decisions for the entire revamp in April. Which, for obvious reasons, doesn't make any sense. A lot of things that are patched are things which were known issues for a while, but needed time to go through the proper patch process before the fix made it out to all the consoles.
So in short, based on the timing of NRS' major releases, you will never see something like the October Injustice patch in time for EVO -- and you shouldn't. This means that the original pre-release QA/testing/balancing period is of the utmost importance, and that's where emphasis should be placed.
