So the "fragging over their players" is in response them knowing the issues and going ahead with printing and sale, not the number of editions they have put out over the years which in truth was low for RPG games.
This is an accurate assessment.
You say potato...
My point is you can look at the times between editions, the different publishing companies, any of the factors in the list. When I posted the the Shadowrun list, the first response was that the game owners were “fragging over the players”, which was not my opinion.
My point is if you like the current edition, you’ll say the list is proof that they worked to improve to get to the current, while if you don’t like the current, you’ll say it’s proof that the developers don’t know what they are doing. In truth, it’s neither, since the gaming landscape is constantly changing and to be successful you have to make a game that people will buy. Even if that means losing long-time fans.
To be fair, I like some of things that this edition has. What I do not like, as tenchi2a said, are the major omissions/poor editing/shoddy game mechanics along with the generally flippant attitude from CGL surrounding the launch of 6th ed (and Sprawl Ops, if you watched their GenCon stream).
I got one of the hard copies from GenCon for $50, and once the
SECOND errata drops, I'll have to keep a (most likely) 20- to 30-page document (40+ if they actually include usable examples of things they glossed over) with said book to make it usable. That is unacceptable.
When a company knows that their book is so bad they have to drop a hot-fix at the pre-release stage, they shouldn't be pre-releasing the book. If CGL had any integrity, they would be rushing to reprint the books and getting ready to eat the cost of 850 exchanges. Barring that, the PDF should be scrubbed from the contents to character sheet before it goes live so no errata is needed.
