Lack of playtesting and editting is my groups biggest issue with Warlord Games.

Just look at Cruel Seas of the Western Desert Book and see the glaring errors that just sailed on by to a full release product.

It feels like Warlord Games are operating like a Video Game Company throwing rushed content out to people and fixing it with the equivalent of a “Day One Patch”.

“Could they have been better playtested?  Of course – name me a ruleset that couldn’t!  Could they have been better proofread?  Yes to this too, and this is a more serious lapse on Warlord’s part – getting a set of rules read through by an experienced proofreader should be a de minimis call on any publisher’s part, but frankly for me, life’s too short.  Does it have mistakes?  Sure.  But how much you care depends on how much of a rules lawyer you are and how much perfection you like in your rules.  And also, how much of a Mr Angry you are when it comes to a hobby one is supposed to be enjoying and having fun with!”

I’m going to have to disagree.

Imagine if you read a Novel that sucked but the Author then bought out an “Errata” in 6 months and basically used his paying customers as one giant Beta Test without telling them.

If you’re going to sell something the absolute minimum to to at least be honest.

“Yeah we didn’t play test this more than 5 times and it will be getting an Errata in Two weeks so don’t buy the Hard Copy since it will just go out of date”

There’s a difference between listening to your community then making reasonable changes to rules and using your customers as an unknowing pool of Beta Testers and making their Rulebooks totally useless in less than a month after they purchased them.