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The difference here is that the choice is not bug fixes or new content, it is sooner bug fixes or bug fixes and new content.

True, I misspoke on that part. My apologies and thanks for the clarification. I would still rather see the current bugs fixed before new content is released. But then again, I'm perfectly fine without mods for this game too.

Having just recently gotten my copy of this game, I feel I have little say in the matter. However, since I do officially own a copy, that does entitle me to voicing my opinion. Please read the whole thing rather than telling me I don't know what I'm talking about or I'm on the wrong forums... I choose my words very carefully for a reason.

I started playing minecraft about 8 years ago, and stopped playing vanilla when I realized just how awesome mods made minecraft. I have continued playing modded version of minecraft ever since (close to 7 years now). I am currently stuck on playing 1.7.9 version of it because the mods which I enjoy playing so very much have ceased updating. The current version of minecraft is something like 1.11 or something like that.

Now, I said that to say this:

Rimworld is AWESOME as is! I've been playing it for about 2 weeks so far and just last night managed to scrape enough $$$ together to get my own copy of it (not easy on an extremely limited income). I so far have downloaded close to 25 mods and, as soon as I am done posting this, plan on spending several more hours enjoying the new ideas that the mods bring. However, the mods are enhancements not originally added to the game, though they may later on. (example would be I played with horses in Minecraft before horses were actually released thanks to a mod).

However, I have noticed multiple times in a LOT of games, (not just minecraft) that when you rely on modders to make your game greater than it might already be, then you (as a player) are cheating yourself out of a LOT of really awesome and hard work put forth by the developers. I, myself, have been working on building my own game and I gotta admit, it's not easy. I can't imagine the scale Rimworld has taken but I have noticed a few bugs. While I would love to see more content updates, I am reminded of Electronic Arts and Sims 3.  They constantly released new content and never gave two hoots about content patches. Even to this day, it's virtually unplayable to me because of all the bugs. Skyrim, a great game, is flawed with bugs that Bethesda simply overlooked and continued to compile with "new content". I say: Fix the problems that there are now. Release new content when the current content is less buggy. That way, you know that if the new content ends up with a bug, it's something that was added new and not being caused by an older problem. It will ultimately save time because of the fact that you'll know where the problem lies.

As for those who "don't want to wait for mods to update." It's really simple:  DON'T USE MODS! If you mod your game, you place your advancement in the hands of someone else who may have a death in a family, or may get so sick they can't get out of bed, or their computer gets fried by lightning, or (probably the most common) windows releases a screwed up update that wipes everything they have been doing because it views their mod coding as a virus or some other dumb crap. If you insist on using mods, then you may be stuck playing Minecraft 1.7.9 and missing out on a LOT of additional stuff just because your mod team has ceased working on their mods.

Bottom line: I want to see bugs fixed more than I do new content. I lose interest if a bug prevents me from enjoying a game like in Sims 3.