Editing Strategy guide (section)

==Criticism==
Games journalist and guide writer [[Alan Emrich]] has severely criticized recent strategy guides for:
*Containing only facts which should have been in the game manual, e.g. about the [[user interface]].
*Failing to teach users how to improve their play.
*Failing to provide information which helps them to make decisions, e.g. about the capabilities and costs of units and buildings.
*Being inaccurate, often because the developers have tweaked the game during the publication [[lead time]].

The faults, he says, are mainly caused by the game publishers' and guide publishers' haste to get their products on to the market;<ref>{{cite web
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}}</ref> "[previously] strategy guides were published after a game was released so that they could be accurate, even to the point of including information changes from late game 'patch' releases. The ''[[Master of Orion]]'' official strategy guide that Tom Hughes and I wrote is just that kind of book."<ref name="emrich">{{cite web | url=http://moo3.quicksilver.com/game/history.html | title=Master of Orion: The History of a Game Series — One Man's Telling of a Cosmic Tale | publisher=Master of Orion III - The Official Web Site | date=2001 | access-date=18 January 2015 | author=Emrich, Alan}}</ref>