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Message: <blockquote data-quote="David E" data-source="post: 3320480" data-attributes="member: 34115">The problem I see with your argument, Razz, is that your example of the PS3 is not analagous to the Spell Compedium.  If you had a broken PS3, that did not function at all or freezed constantly, that would be more akin to a D&D book that had missing pages, a broken cover, etc., as other posters here have illustrated.Having certain spells, magic items, or rules, that may or may not be unbalanced and need errata, is like a video game in which certain classes or weapons are unfair.  This is only a problem with the game, however; the system itself is not broken.  In many cases, you would indeed have to wait for the next game to come out for those issues to be fixed (and in the case of World of Warcraft, you're actually paying fifteen bucks a month for those revisions, so they can hardly be considered free).  As other posters have said, no one forced you to buy the book, just as no one would force you to buy a game that reviewers said had some balance issues.  An immediate example, for me anyway, is Gears of War for the Xbox 360:  The chainsaw in multiplayer is grossly superior to many other weapons in multiplayer and could seriously use a revision.  This did not deter me from buying the game, however, as I knew the rest of the product was going to be awesome.</blockquote>