However
I also note that
1) several people were prepared to pay a premium price for the
limited edition Heroquest rulebook, even though the regular edition
was alos available
2) a copy of the tentacles pre-release ILH2 has just sold at well
over market price, even though the regular edition will be available
from "all good games stores"
3) Out of print Gloranthan supplements continue to sell for
respectable amounts
4) the "Unfinished works" presumably sold in sufficient quantities
that it was worth producing more than one, despite their "low
production quality" and their limited availability (ie you can't
just wander in to your FLGS and pick a copy up off the shelf)
Which leads me to conclude that collectors and completists would still have been prepared to bid "silly money" for a high-quality, limited edition version of the book even if a "standard" edition existed whether in "unfinished work" format or as a higher quality publication. And thus to suspect that any reduction in income resulting from such collectors and completists deciding to "make do" with the standard edition would be covered by the sales of the standard edition.
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