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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 1834683" data-attributes="member: 813">Have you stopped buying WotC books? If not, than if hasn't reached that point for you.When you look at a newspaper do you think every fact has been checked twice and every word is spelled correctly? The editor of the paper knows there are mistakes in every edition he releases. It is acceptable. Is every news report 100% accurate? Is every diagnosis at a hospital right the first time? Is every criminal caught by the police? Is every house saved from condemnation by the fire department? Is there any job were perfection is ever achieved? Every single time? No. Not a single one. All of these endeavors are carried out by humans. Humans make mistakes. There is no such thing as a book without errors.And I asked you, would spending that minimal investment get ONE more person to buy their books? Maybe. Would it enable them to increase the print run by a factor significant enough for them to make more profit on every copy sold? I doubt it. In fact, even if one more person buy that book, that means the minimal investment has to be less than the profit on that one book.No one disagrees with this. There is however a point of diminished returns where the money you spend perfecting the data decreases your profit rather than increasing it.My products get excellent reviews for their mechanics, thank you very much. But I appreciate you taking a cheap shot at them. I wasn't going to respond in this thread because I knew it risked making me look bad.I'm not discussing the state of my products, I'm talking to you about the reality of business (that part of my first post you didn't answer). Would I like to hire a group of experts at $20-30/hr to go over all my stats? Yes, sure. Will I make the $400-600 that costs me back with added sales? No, I won't. Because as you have pointed out, people buy the books anyway.I do the best I can and at some point I have to say, any more errors I fix will cost me more money to fix than to put the book out now. That is called doing business. I'm sorry if your hobby is being treated as a business. Would you prefer that no books are released because I put myself out of business looking for that last mistake? How about WotC being told by Hasbro to stop wasting money on RPGs and stick to their CCGs that make 10 times as much?</blockquote>

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