I think the major problem we had was that with the release of the game, almost every statistical value that was in the guide was useless. It wasn't just a couple of values. It was close to all values. Something similar happened atleast twice more, until we settled on version 1.45.
The guide serves both as a walkthrough and a reference. The reference would have been useless.
As to the walkthrough and the quest list; the Larians changed many of the quests during the way. Several quests were dropped that never reached the release, but were in the guide. Other quest were changed dramatically.

In total the one we had shortly after the release was useless. We had to redo all of the game to get the statistics and quests correct again.

That said, we were trying to be too perfect and we had to cope with a real life job and in my case a wife and kids that liked some attention every now and then as well.

Not enough time, too many changes in a short period and a team that was trying to be too perfect, sort of killed the opportunity to get it into a printed version or released earlier in another way.

It could have been available as a download at the end of july, but we decided to go for the magazine distribution first.
Looking back, maybe other choises would have been wiser and better, but it is as it is.


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