Originally Posted by Trelow 
I spent HOURS with all the old D&D based Bioware manuals.
You mean Baldur's Gate and such ? The German manuals were shortened in ome parts as far as I know.
I think the need for strealining everything comes from the fact that the more money is put into a game's development, the same lot of money must be brought back into the ompan again - thus excluding potentil buyers will exclude money - and in result it will possibly result in minus-money, so to say.