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 DominayTrix wrote:

 Nazrak wrote:
Love how people are extrapolating from a poll on this forum, famously full of some of the most hardcore complainers about 40K, that CA is somehow a misstep by GW.

It kinda was? Changing to a once per year PRINTED balance patch that costs money, but is full of blatant errors is a misstep.

Imagine if the Munitorum Field Manual was a free online PDF. Release the CA missions and charge for all the bonus content and sell a nice "Munitorum Field Handle" which is a glorified notebook that you can slide in and out the pages from the pdf. Typo? print a new page and replace the old bad one. Big Tournament coming up? Print a fresh copy of everything to sleeve in. GW can even milk whales by creating a warlord edition with Purity Seal bookmarks etc.

Piracy has been, and always will be a service issue. 55pt Acolytes and 25 bike DW bikers are clear evidence that the service sucks.

Like I said, it’s immediately obvious that these are oversights/typos, and anyone worth playing the game with will acknowledge this and move on. It doesn’t in any way render the game unplayable, and I just kind of feel like if anyone’s going to get massively bent out of shape specifically about these two minor things, then they’re very fortunate to not have anything else more pressing in their life to get upset about.

 Nazrak wrote:

 DominayTrix wrote:

 Nazrak wrote:
Love how people are extrapolating from a poll on this forum, famously full of some of the most hardcore complainers about 40K, that CA is somehow a misstep by GW.

It kinda was? Changing to a once per year PRINTED balance patch that costs money, but is full of blatant errors is a misstep.

Imagine if the Munitorum Field Manual was a free online PDF. Release the CA missions and charge for all the bonus content and sell a nice "Munitorum Field Handle" which is a glorified notebook that you can slide in and out the pages from the pdf. Typo? print a new page and replace the old bad one. Big Tournament coming up? Print a fresh copy of everything to sleeve in. GW can even milk whales by creating a warlord edition with Purity Seal bookmarks etc.

Piracy has been, and always will be a service issue. 55pt Acolytes and 25 bike DW bikers are clear evidence that the service sucks.

Like I said, it’s immediately obvious that these are oversights/typos, and anyone worth playing the game with will acknowledge this and move on. It doesn’t in any way render the game unplayable, and I just kind of feel like if anyone’s going to get massively bent out of shape specifically about these two minor things, then they’re very fortunate to not have anything else more pressing in their life to get upset about.

I'm not especially worried about two obvious typos.

I'm worried about the things that look like typos, but I'm less sure about. Like all the points that reverted to Codex values.

I'm absolutely not buying the balance patch book if I'm going to need to download another balance patch on top of it if/when they errata it.

I use Battlescribe for the points but I buy the CA books because I want the new missions and new rules. I don't see a problem buying them on a yearly basis.

I buy them every year, no regrets. They're tools for the toolbox; I might not plan on actually playing using the actual Planetstrike expansion rules from CA17, but I have definitely thought about incorporating some of its ideas into games - and not just 40k, but Kill Team and Apocalypse as well.

I do think that points adjustments should be made free, though. Make CA more of a collection of changes and additions from throughout the year - include a physical copy of the points adjustments, add any missions or rules from White Dwarf, and sprinkle in some new stuff as well.

It's not as bad as the early-to-mid 2000s, where Chapter Approved was the only place you could really get FAQs (and it included literal cut-and-paste errata pages) because GW was still figuring out this whole "Internet" thing.

In my mind it's not whether you do or don't. It's that GW expects you too.