I fear that Becky has unduly enbiggenated me.

However. Getting updates from Drivethru because the designer decided to correct a typo, or something, bugs the hell out of me and I certainly don’t download the updated version.

As a designer, I do aim to deliver a kickstarter by the promised deadline. I promised that deadline, I want people to see that I can deliver what I promise. I want people to know they can rely on me. However, delivering by that deadline doesn’t at all mean delivering just any old thing by the deadline. It means delivering a finished product, that has been copyedited and proofread and all that good stuff. I would rather miss the deadline than deliver a product that wasn’t properly finished.

Now, I obviously have relatively little experience of this so I’m mostly talking about my personal philosophy here. Lovecraftesque was delivered, I think, a month or two late, something like that? Which super-vexed me, because I really thought we’d allowed enough time, we were super-careful, and grrr. But the text was finished well ahead of time. As it happens, after we published I noticed some annoying (minor) formatting errors; we have not corrected them. I just… I dunno, it would feel unnecessary? We did so much proofreading, with new errors appearing every time, that I know for sure it’s impossible to have a completely error-free version. So yeah, I’m not sure I understand the compulsive updating either.