I was looking through the manuals for several games and noticed a couple things that seemed odd.

First there's been a BIG improvement in the look and design of their game manuals starting with WWE. Thank you.

I noticed that TWD game was the last to use the older style. The pro manual is online, just like all the manuals are.
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One thing that bothered me is that the pro manual is over 100 pages smaller that the LE manual. This is because the LE manual has full schematics. The pro manual has the info on the front page to find the info online, but if the entire manual is online, why not include it in the file.
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These manuals look poor quality online. I'd almost guess that their just scanned pages form the physical copy.

Every game after WWE looks great.
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But here I noticed that the LE games manual is smaller than the pros version....and ya know what's missing; all those schematics that are useful for trouble shooting. Again. These are online files, not printed copies, why not include that info.
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Now these new mauals are beautiful, don't get me wrong, I like them. I just wish that there was more information included in them.
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I really like the colour photos in the set up portion of the manual to show you what to look for and the graphics throughout are clear and easy to follow. But why don't they include the schematics? Could it be that the spike system is not going to get these schematics and you are expected to swap out nodes that break?

Ya, I looked back at some of the older manuals and they're all pretty good, some are even over 200 pages. They are full of schematics and useful information.

I was just shocked not seeing schematics in the GoT manual. They do a good job of labeling wires for troubleshooting, I just thought some were missing useful informaiton.

I wonder why there's no cohesion among the manuals. Could different designers equate to different manual quality? Possibly different employees in the print department? (Or does Stern contract out manual publications?)