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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 3319530" data-attributes="member: 18280">No....their incentive is money.  I.e., so that it sells.I don't think many people would agree that "[M]aking the book...so that it sells...means doing the best job they can up front."I think most people would agree that, instead,"Making the book so that it sells means meeting a minimum standard of usefulness up front."Now, if you knew that you were going to sell your errata afterward, then it makes sense that you would want the errata to be as important as the book itself.  You would want, in essense, to ensure that sales on your errata as well as sales on your book would be as strong as they could be.  You may classify this as "evil"; I would classify this as no different than the car salesman selling you add-on products after you've agreed to the price of the base model.  On the other hand, I think (and WotC seems to think, based on their publishing errata free on their website and in the SRD) that the "selling your errata" model hurts the goodwill you have from your customer base, and since you want to sell to them considerably more often than Joe Average buys a new car, it is better to not charge for your mistakes.If you know that you'll make money off your mistakes, you are less likely to do a good job the first time out.  You simply have less incentive to care.  If you know that you'll have to fix your mistakes without getting paid for it down the line, you're a lot more careful about what mistakes you might make.Not "evil overlords" -- simple human nature.Again, this "evil overlords" stuff is some sort of Bizarro Land hyperbole.  Good luck with that.   <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>

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