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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nikchick" data-source="post: 1145961" data-attributes="member: 344">I suppose it's not worth suggesting that we should examine West End Games' financial health or their rank in the industry since those days.Instead, I will just pop in to mention that the costs to today's publisher for the "nice light boxed set" is nearly as much as a coor hardback, if not more.  Additionally, the game distribution system is no longer set up to distribute "light" boxed sets, and the losses that the publishers suffer (due to damage to the product in shipping/storing, boxes that can't be stacked or packaged like books and suffer more crushing damage in shipping and when being stored, they need to be packed fewer to a packing box which raises the overall price for shipping components compared to a book, etc) makes producing a boxed set pure folly for any company wishing to remain profitable and in business today.It's just the reality of responsible publishing today.  There were many game products released in the past that were not financially viable products for their producers, and no matter how fondly the old-time gamer may look back upon those products, it's not realistic to point to those projects as if they were standard or sustainable as model products!Nicole</blockquote>