"OMG it's a 25GB game patch, must be tons of amazing new content that they're keeping quiet about."

*Could* be, sure, and stealth launches are a thing sometimes, but generally speaking, if it's a big patch for no discernible reason not attached to anything upcoming that's already been announced, the actual reason is probably something very boring and usually non-game-related

@rygorous Sometimes there are also business reasons.

For one of our games the publisher decided against supporting incremental updates on one target platform, because that one platform would have required some extra work, and budget was tight.