Has WotC's Editing Improved?

[wedgeski]

Last November there was an interesting thread here spurred by John Cooper's reviews of MMIII and Libris Mortis, which discussed the sorry state of Wizards' proof-reading dept. Jesse Decker came on-line assuring everyone that something was going to be done, and MerricB made the observation:

Remember, it probably takes Wizards about 6 months - year (more towards the shorter period of time) to get the editing problems fixed for products. There's a big lag time between design, development, editing and the final printing.

Complete Divine was the big wake-up call for Wizards, but they weren't going to be able to fix the next few products properly.

Hopefully in the VERY NEAR FUTURE we'll see an improvement on these stat blocks.

Cheers!

So almost a year later, the question is, what has improved?

 

[diaglo]

haven't really noticed an improvement in editing.

did notice a change in the focus. more fluff. less crunch.

 

[Shemeska]

did notice a change in the focus. more fluff. less crunch.

Thank God.

And the editing has marginally improved from what I've seen, with the glaring exception of 'Champions of Ruin' which (among other reasons) went from a definate sale to not buying it based on the editing.

 

[Pants]

Well, considering that I think that Savage Species, Libris Mortis, and Complete Divine all had deplorable editing jobs, yes, they have improved quite a bit.

Still, there is still a lot of room for more improvement.

 

[Truth Seeker]

Did anyone count how many times the word Legacy was used, in the Weapons of Legacy book?

 

[Shade]

Since they hit rock bottom with MMIII, I've noticed steady improvement (with the noted exception of Champions of Ruin, which must have sat in development for a long time, since it still has several instances of clearly 3E content).

 

[diaglo]

Did anyone count how many times the word Legacy was used, in the Weapons of Legacy book?

i can if you want. i have it at home

diaglo of Legacy Ooi

 

[Psion]

I'm not as nitpicky as some, but thought that Stormwrack was much better than Complete Divine.

Complete divine was not just a matter of typos, though. They pretty much totally failed to update to 3.5. If oyu are going to repackage and resell me the same material, not actually updating it is pretty bad.

 

[Truth Seeker]

i can if you want. i have it at home

diaglo of Legacy Ooi

LOL, go ahead, I highlighted the majority in pink...already.