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overgeeked

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I remember when, in my White Wolf days, I worked out that what one contingent wanted from their errata was for there never to have been a problem. They don’t want info they could print out and tuck into a book. They didn’t want a new copy of the book that didn’t have the error. They wanted their existing copy to have always been fixed. And, y’know, that’s not possible. So they’d go away mad and badmouth the company for years on end because they couldn’t get the simple fix of never having had a problem.
For some people the only options are it’s perfect or it sucks. Considering nothing is ever perfect, that’s got to be a seriously miserable way to live.
 

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Whizbang Dustyboots

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I remember when, in my White Wolf days, I worked out that what one contingent wanted from their errata was for there never to have been a problem. They don’t want info they could print out and tuck into a book. They didn’t want a new copy of the book that didn’t have the error. They wanted their existing copy to have always been fixed. And, y’know, that’s not possible.
Not with your limited dots in Time and Matter, anyway.
 





Thomas Shey

Legend
I remember when, in my White Wolf days, I worked out that what one contingent wanted from their errata was for there never to have been a problem. They don’t want info they could print out and tuck into a book. They didn’t want a new copy of the book that didn’t have the error. They wanted their existing copy to have always been fixed. And, y’know, that’s not possible. So they’d go away mad and badmouth the company for years on end because they couldn’t get the simple fix of never having had a problem.

There's clearly contingent of gamers who think that no game should ever have errata at all, and a bigger one that has a probably unreasonable idea of how much errata is nearly inevitable (and not making any distinction between design errors and editing errors). This doesn't mean that there's no games that have error levels that make me cock an eye (Fireborn, I'm looking at you), but the expectations I've seen from some people are patently ridiculous.
 

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