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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 3320661" data-attributes="member: 18280">And, with a single swirl of overbloated hyperbole, we re-enter Bizarro Land.No wonder Superman keeps winning.   <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /> Attempting to make money, and attempting to make money effectively, doesn't require black-cloaked villians in the Real World.  You don't have to intentionally make errors in order to not employ proper editting practices.  If you know the book will sell, and you know the errata will sell, and you know that both will make you money, you lose your incentive to edit the thing properly in the first place.  Proper editting is a cost, and most businesses try to keep unneccesary costs down.  If you know something will sell despite your slipshod editting, and you know that -- rather than paying for it later through the effort to create free errata -- you get to make money off it later, only a complete idiot would spend money now to avoid gaining money later.And, when things like that happen, it isn't the fault of the company....it is the fault of the consumer for accepting the practice while continuing to buy the products.So, nobody is buying/selling the PHB or DMG?  Those products out of print?!?  Any data to back up that claim?  Any relevance to whether or not you should be supplying errata for free well within that period?Or is this some more Bizarro Land?Um....Right now they do have a financial incentive to produce fixes, if it is also true that, as you say.... and errata is being produced and sold in new products, as has been argued on this thread.I think that there is a general (though not absolute) consensus that WotC is producing "error laden books"....but if your contentions are true then the increase in errors and the increase in selling errata are a hand-in-hand occurance, invalidating your premise.  RC</blockquote>

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