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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 5861519" data-attributes="member: 1879">True, but MMOs because of the server based models, are actually a poor model for RPG releases, oddly enough. I was actually thinking of games like Diablo and Starcraft where Blizzard is imfamous for telling eager fans that it'll be done when it's done and no we won't give you a release date until it's gone gold.It is of course, ridiculously easier to update digital media than print media. When I was in the airforce (back when we dropped rocks off pterodactyls) we had a system to allow continuous improvments and update to our tech manuals. They were all bound in 4 inch d-ring binders (dozens of them) and every week you'ld get a stack of new pages in the mail and you'ld have to spend a few hours (every week) going through the books, pulling out the old pages and replacing them with the updated ones. The airforce can afford to do that. Wotc cannot. I suppose they could issue books in ring binders with some blank pages and allow you to print your own updates as they arrive by e-mail. But probably not.That having been said I'm playing a game right now where for the first several sessions we only had a digital copy of the rules, and then finally got some proper hardcopy. And oh my GOD is print more convenient to work with. I love hypertext dearly (and used the d20 srd to make hypertext character sheets), but for flipping through a book as you level up a character nothing beats paper.</blockquote>

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