BIA PC Retail Patch 1.01 is out
 

Just in time for next week's release, Ubi Soft Entertainment has issued the first patches for Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30, upgrading the English, German, French, Italian and Spanish editions of the squad-based World War II shooter by Gearbox Software to version 1.01. Details on the changes in this release are however not available.

http://www.3dgamers.com/news/more/1096481193/

The patch is released before the game. oOo:

That's not uncommon.

**Update**

The BiA updates available on the Ubisoft FTP site (BiA-1.0-1.01-xxx.exe) are NOT intended for public download at this time. These updates are published for final internal testing purposes only. Anyone that downloads this patch now and applies it to a retail game next week will not be able to play online, or receive future updates through the auto update system. To be clear, version 1.01 is NOT a valid version number for Brothers in Arms.

Plenty uncommon, last game i can remember this happening with is battlefield 1942.

And now it appears that the patch released before the game hit the market is a bad patch and shouldn't be applied to the game you haven't been able to buy yet. ed: