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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 3320415" data-attributes="member: 307">Your assumption requires that you think that WotC is run by black-cloaked villains twirling their mustaches as they type up the books.The life cycle of a RPG supplement is very short. Ninety days or so and sales effectively stop. Which means that, as it stands now, for a book more than three months old, there is no incentive whatsoever to even think about making errata. From WotC's (or any other game company's) perspective, it is a huge money sink. Some companies, like SJGames, are willing to pay into the money sink of errata. Most are not. WotC is currently better than most other RPG companies in the market on this score. But it remains a money sink, and they have no incentive whatsoever to do anything on the errata front, since they could be spending their time working on the Complete Book of Left-Handed Ogres or something else that will sell and make money instead.Right now, with errata being "free" we get error laden books, and an almost nonexistent trickle of errata to fix one or two things a couple years after the fact. We have FAQ entries that make no sense. We have customer support rulings that are inherently self-contradictory. Exactly how do you think this would be worse in a situation where they have a financial incentive to produce fixes?Except in the current situation, WotC isn't providing errata free on their webstie, at least not errata for anything published in the last couple years. Their errata is so hopelessly out of date that it might as well not exist.</blockquote>

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