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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6283493" data-attributes="member: 7006">I didn't "pretend" to ignore your quote about two sets of errata... I commented on that in my first post and said that it wouldn't be a bad idea.  You don't need to get all persnickety Mistwell in order to make your point.  Not everyone on the boards here are out to get you.As far as how many people there are that want a "condensed" errata... I have no idea.  That's why I said I suspected WotC's reasons for not doing it.  I have no proof, and I wasn't suggesting that was the only definitive answer... but I was making an educated guess based upon their actions and the responses we seem to be getting from everyone.  Some players are fine with the 27 pages document.  Some players don't want any document.  Some players want a document of less pages.  Some players want errata to be done but just want more editing in the first place.  There's no "most" here. And as far as the "strawman" about printing a hard copy of the errata... you're the one who brought it up.  Who are you really annoyed with?Then talking about a wrap-around book cover that someone could slip their errata documents into... is it "expensive" in of itself?  Not necessarily.  But in terms of return on investment... I would gather it'd be a pretty big waste of WotC's time, energy, and money to produce it.  Cause they wouldn't be able to charge much for it, the costs of art, shipping and stocking of any product in a store does begin to add up, and the number of people who would actually want, need, and buy an Official Dungeons & Dragons Book Cover are (in my estimation) probably rather small.  Especially considering you're slicing up the playerbase to find that group that 1) doesn't use DDI, 2) actually cares about using the errata, 3) physically prints their errata and carries it around with them, and 4) wants something "special" to store it in, rather than just any other folder they happen to have lying around.Perhaps there are a bunch of you.  Maybe I'm wrong.  But as this is the first time I can remember anyone ever even mentioning a product like this... to me it hasn't sounded like it was something that folks have been clamoring for.  And thus, I don't think my guesstimation that it's probably not enough of a money-maker to warrant WotC spending time to produce it is that far off.And as far as me personally... I'm a DDI subscriber.  So errata means nothing to me-- I've got it taken care of for me already.  And I suspect (there's that word again) that this is how WotC tends to think about it.  They WANT folks to realize how useful subscribing to DDI is and for them to pay their few bucks a month.  So they aren't going to bend over backwards to make the lives of non-DDI members as simple and easy as possible.  You'll absolutely get the info... you'll get that free PDF with everything written... but if you want it fully integrated or as simple as possible to use, you really should join DDI.  I think that's probably the way they look at it.</blockquote>

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