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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 7794577" data-attributes="member: 907"><p>Quite often, they do. For a board game example, Starfarers of Catan feature plastic rocket-ships which serve as both one of the game's randomizers, and as something to which you affix booster rockets and cannons to display your in-game progress. However, these are made out of fairly brittle plastic, so when you affixed booster rockets the sockets tended to break. As a fix, Mayfair sent me add-on rings of more durable plastic, which worked out a lot better.</p><p></p><p>And to take another example from the software industry - these days, games get patched to fix bugs. But back in the days before the Internet or before using the Internet to distribute games? Good luck getting bugs fixed in your games. Professional software sometimes sent out disks with patches and/or new versions, but otherwise you were SOL.</p><p></p><p>And in fiction books you also have typos all the time. For example, the e-book version of Good Omens had a whole bunch of typos that had been created when the book was first OCR:ed, and they didn't notice them until the marketing push around the TV series.</p><p></p><p>And for other things, if there are safety issues or issues compromising the actual function of your product, the manufacturer will probably have things recalled/fixed. If not, well...</p><p>[ATTACH=full]113398[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 7794577, member: 907"] Quite often, they do. For a board game example, Starfarers of Catan feature plastic rocket-ships which serve as both one of the game's randomizers, and as something to which you affix booster rockets and cannons to display your in-game progress. However, these are made out of fairly brittle plastic, so when you affixed booster rockets the sockets tended to break. As a fix, Mayfair sent me add-on rings of more durable plastic, which worked out a lot better. And to take another example from the software industry - these days, games get patched to fix bugs. But back in the days before the Internet or before using the Internet to distribute games? Good luck getting bugs fixed in your games. Professional software sometimes sent out disks with patches and/or new versions, but otherwise you were SOL. And in fiction books you also have typos all the time. For example, the e-book version of Good Omens had a whole bunch of typos that had been created when the book was first OCR:ed, and they didn't notice them until the marketing push around the TV series. And for other things, if there are safety issues or issues compromising the actual function of your product, the manufacturer will probably have things recalled/fixed. If not, well... [ATTACH type="full"]113398[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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