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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8693874" data-attributes="member: 2209">Why compare just the initial boxed sets?From the consumer angle this would exclude counting fans of the setting who came in with the revised sets.From the publisher's perspective this would exclude consideration of the revenue gained/units sold from the revised settings. Some of that might not have been gained if there were no revision for an existing purchaser to buy but if there were no later revision to buy, those who bought the revisions as their entree to the setting might have gotten the older one instead and bumped up its numbers for the relevant comparison.Greyhawk comes to mind as a particularly sharp case where using the first folio only would probably be less useful for comparisons of Greyhawk versus other settings.Using multiple revisions can be distorting for some purposes as it could be one purchaser getting multiple versions. For example in the 2e era I bought both the Ravenloft Realms of Terror original boxed set and the Domains of Dread hardcover so if you are measuring groups by units sold that would be an overcount. However for the most part I think for most purposes measuring total sales is more useful.</blockquote>