You guys need a proofreader.

UPMOST?

That is not the word you are looking for.

That makes that line funny on two levels

Go looking for the "Wolfpack robot". Really. Robot isn't capitalized in the mob name and it's been like that for years.

Those kind of errors creep into my writing and speech all the time. It is one of those things where I have heard utmost a hundred times, but have never seen it written out. Same goes for when I see a word written out a hundred times, but have never heard it spoken.

You do NOT want to know how I originally pronounced "epitome".

Another one that bugged me was in Dark Astoria, when you first see Ice Mistral, Scirocco, and Mu'Vorkan, Mu'Vorkan's name is spelled "Mu'Vorkin".

Epp-ih Tome? Ee pie toh me? I do kind of want to know now.

I'm the same in that I'll read a word for years, know it's definition, etc but have never heard it out loud by someone that actually knows.

Ooh, an eggcorn!

Seriously, though, if a potentially-crash-inducing bug can survive in the display of things like Kismet +6 0X0.000000P+00ccuracy in base storage, WW, etc., for years, despite detailed reports of exactly what's wrong and how to fix it, why would you expect proofreading?

We should have a contest - what's the funniest misspelled word you've found in the game? (Especially when you factor in context...)

Like "a vile of blood"...

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Ever since that Jetsons episode with Rosie (the robot maid) and Mac (the robot janitor), I mentally read utmost as most-ut.

The general grammar of that sentence could use some work as well:

"Her safety is of the utmost concern to me, as per her orders."

And honestly, I'd have worded the first sentence, "... on Primal Earth." Unless, of course, Praetor Duncan's location is underground.

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Originally Posted by Blood Red Arachnid Same goes for when I see a word written out a hundred times, but have never heard it spoken. You do NOT want to know how I originally pronounced "epitome".

For me it was "awry". I first read the word when I was a little kid in grade school, but I never heard it spoken until I was in high school. I'd been pronouncing it "AW-ree" (only in my head, fortunately) for years before I finally learned it was pronounced "a-RYE".

Pictured above:

* Miss Liberty, the trainer in Atlas Park.
* It's, a possessive as clearly indicated by the apostrophe.
* Unresistable, which is totally a real word despite my spell checker's objections.
* Merit Rewards, a type of special Salvage.
* Powerset, because the space bar is for timid country folk.

Let us take a moment to honor all the obnoxiously careless and unprofessional typographical errors in the game, and look for signs of more to come.

We're all too busy "diffusing bomb threats" on a daily basis to be bothered by this sort of thing.

It's not a spelling error, but I am amused by the Perez Park badge that makes Hamlet and Ophelia siblings.

Heather Townshend's arc sends you to meet Hua Tov. Above his head, it says Hua Tov. In the resulting conversation, he's called Huab by your character at the end. I'm pretty sure he's called another name (I think in the nav bar??) as well but my notes when documenting the arc seem to have been taken away with the last trash haul.

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Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

A while back, the development team sent out "beta" invites to people to play the SSAs ahead of time and look for technical and text errors to avoid the arcs being embarrassing. I don't know how that turned out, because I was so pissed off at SSA3 at the time I didn't want anything to do with the SSAs (oh, how little has changed), but I assumed they'd gotten better at this since I didn't spot anything terribly wrong in SSAs 4 through 6. I'm guessing that proof-reading didn't extend over Dark Astoria, huh?

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

I saw "regarding regarding" last night on one description. Might have been the DD iTrial

"You got to dig it to dig it, you dig?"
Thelonious Monk

In one of the new DA missions:

You're led into the heart of the Zig, with some difficulty, do to your status as a villain. Now you'll just have to deal with the PPD that are guarding Director 11.

Do what to my status?

Trust me when I say I'm far from being a "spelling/grammar nazi". I never point out when others make a few mistakes here or there and I make plenty of my own, especially when typing fast during in-game chats. But seriously, this game's text has so many very obvious mistakes that it almost seems like they've gone out of their way to add them in.

I'm not asking for absolute perfection from this game in this area. But is it really too much to ask that they at least run the text through a spellchecker first? I'll bet they could have caught 90% of the typos that way with almost no extra added effort at all. Frankly this game suffers a bit when you see so many errors like this. It's always leads me to believe that if they're that careless with the text the players can read then just how carelessly written/commented must the code behind it be?