Please bear in mind that I am in no way an employee of Catalyst, or privvy to their inner workings. I had been told that there is an e-book on the way called Shadow Spells, and that Keratin Control and Living Focus would be included in that book. That does not mean that these powers will not be retroactively amended to the Street Grimoire. For what it's worth, I'm in the same boat as most of you - I'd rather have the books be relatively self-contained, and when I saw mention in the core book of future publications that would cover topics that were raised in the core book, I kind of cringed. This appears to be a similar situation, but I do not know for certain.
Yes, and I didn't mean to blame you for Catalyst's practices. You were the easiest to quote that summed up my biggest gripe.
Agreed, but not quite so with Danger. Backwards referencing is ok, but not good. Forward referencing is not - and it only gets worse when it's done without any notification.
I am only somewhat okay with Backward referencing. It really depends on how it is done but when done right, I don't have a problem with it. Forward referencing is only ever okay when it is "If you want more optional rules pertaining to X, check out YYYY that is slated to come out this summer"
Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
This is a fair point, is it malice or complete and utter stupidity (like the sheer number, scale, and obviousness of the errors in their books)? I don't know, but I do know that I want to see change for the better and they don't have an excuse for putting out a product as poor quality as this. RPGs are a niche pastime, Shadowrun is a niche within a niche, one that I could just as easily duplicate in other systems because it is more about setting fluff than rules. I choose to pay for and learn the rules because I want to support those who come up with the setting. With each book I have bought, that desire has dwindled because the quality of the books and is now dwindling more due to the practices (and this isn't a one-off thing, they have done it with Gun-haven 3 and the attachments and a few other times that honestly escapes me at the moment).
I've said this before, when a company has good practices I support them even if I don't need their stuff; I buy stuff twice (physical and digital, or special releases, or whatever) but when a company acts like catalyst I lose the desire to support them. Something I find a little humourous is that last time I said something I got this reply from JM Hardy,
I will do what I can to at least post something here on a more regular basis, which I admittedly have been bad at.
Jason H.
Now I will admit that he has logged on a little more often, it's only be just over a month since he last logged on, but this reply of his was also the last post he has made on the forum. That's 5 months ago. I haven't seen any action from the other (Non-demo and non-freelance) Catalyst people. I don't even feel I have someone who works at Catalyst that I can properly talk to and voice my complaints to, we just sit twiddling our thumbs and take the shoddy work they put out.
