They can update their own servers if they ran them as well.
See what yall fail to realize is that just because MS decided mandate always online, that doesn't mean that if a game chooses to be always online only on the PS that it can't. Again, OPTION if you choose.
Nothing is stopping Sony from doing the same shyt if they choose. Some publishers like to maintain control of their own servers so that they don't have to pay someone else (and yes, they do have to pay MS for using Azure just like any other company). Matter of fact, my last job thought about doing the same, but ultimately decided to do their own cloud setup so they can maintain and control themselves without paying someone else to do so.
Nothing is stopping a publisher from wanting to do daily updates if they choose. shyt, 2K does it themselves.
Point I'm getting at is that yall need to stop believing these MS bullshyt they're spewing like it's something new, when it's not. shyt is a gloried PR move to advertise and get devs and publishers to use Azure. That's all this shyt is.