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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vigwyn the Unruly" data-source="post: 1798251" data-attributes="member: 20345">Bingo! John is doing a public service, and for a publisher to cry about it is unprofessional and, frankly, childish. It shows that they are more worried about the bottom line than about customer satisfaction and putting out a quality product. If you put out good stuff that customers don't have to fix before using, the bottom line will take care of itself.Bingo again. When I purchase a gaming product, I am paying my hard-earned cash for something that should be fun and relaxing. Fixing the errors is work, not fun, and I do enough work at work. I want my gaming to be a hobby, not another job. People like John are doing the work that should have been done by the publisher. And I, for one, thank them for it.Very well said. I am a fairly smart person, and glaring spelling or grammatical errors really grate on me. The gaming population is aging. A thirteen year-old might be able to ignore these kinds of errors, but to intelligent grown-ups they are a problem. They add to an overall feel of low quality and detract from the gaming experience. As an example, a publisher I won't name has released an update to 3.5 of a very popular book. I was very excited about it, and was going to buy it sight unseen (my FLGS does not carry it). However, in an ad for it in one of the gaming magazines, they used the word "then" when they should have used the word "than." I was totally turned off, and will not buy the book for fear that more such errors lurk within. That may seem nit-picky, but that is such a simple spelling mistake that it should have been caught by the publisher, so seeing it leads me to believe that the product is probably just riddled with other such errors.To conclude, let me give a big thank you to John Cooper and others like him. They are making our lives easier and the game more enjoyable. The publishers who don't want to have errors pointed out would be better served putting their energies into proofreading instead of complaining.</blockquote>

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