No, you're all missing my point, actually.
If the game is flawed in Obsidian's mind, then DON'T RELEASE IT YET. Put it in Early Access, or continue with the beta. Don't release it and then continue to tweak it while people are playing and getting used to the balance as it is, with the side effect of not only changing core game elements, but making the manual and strategy guide obsolete in the process.
And guess what? There's many of us out there who still want a good manual and strategy guide to toy with. If you're going to make a guide and manual, don't you guys think it should be accurate? Now, thanks to the Modern Age of Glorious Gaming, we are stuck with manuals and books that are obsolete on day one! Day. ONE!
If Obsidian thinks the balance isn't right, then DON'T. RELEASE. THE GAME. It's that simple, but most of you can't wrap your head around that.
Instead, you all happily go along with it like good little worker bee consumers, happy to accept any crap you're given because you don't want to go against the grain.
At least I stand up and say something about it.
I suppose this trend will continue as long as everyone just goes along with it. People like me are going extinct. Everyone seems to be just fine and dandy with the current situation. Playing games that aren't finished and are being constantly tweaked. How fun.
Meanwhile, the rest of us who would like to have the now illusion of playing a complete game, well, screw us, we'll just have to be good little consumers and wait a year after the game is released to play a properly "tweaked" version, that probably will no longer even resemble the game when it released.
Is this the vision of the future? Patch madness and games never being properly finished?
Yes, it's genius to want to tweak things, but a big missing piece of genius is KNOWING WHEN SOMETHING IS FINISHED.
If you just continue to tweak endlessly, you become George Lucas putting CGI scenes in old movies that should have been finished and done with a long time ago.
Oh well. I'll be a good little boy and wait for games to be finished and properly polished in a year after their release. I'm glad most of you are completely fine with this practice. Have fun!
I've learned my lesson.