One of the questions I've been asked, and also read assumptions about, is any limits of production numbers of EYEPOP & PLan-D discs, whether some are really limited editions or whether that's just marketing to drive more sales... so I thought I'd give a brief and honest summary of their "limited" nature.
EYEPOP-3D Titles
Our EYEPOP-3D premium range titles are typically released using a Kickstarter campaign in order to judge levels of interest and as such we use this to calculate (guestimate more like) the number of units we produce.
The most limited part of this process are the items produced for the "Platinum Editions" as these are generally rounded up to the next 50 or 100 units so are most definitely limited. Once these Platinum Editions are sold, that's it, there are no more. Typically, these have been produced in batches of approximately 200-300 units, so in global terms these are very limited editions. Once again I can only stress these WILL NOT be produced again.
A number of the discs have also been produced as double disc sets, and again these were strictly for the initial Kickstarter launch batch, rounded up to give us extra stock. Once these are sold, again that's it. We won't produce the double disc set again.
Finally the single discs, these initial batches are equally produced with rounded up figures. usually between 200-300 units, but once sold out they will be officially discontinued as the official "first issue" releases although these may be later re-released, most likely with some differences in packaging, etc.
For clarity the reason why we won't reproduce these isn't some esoteric wish to produce limited editions, it's simply that sales dwindle over time and producing small additional batches of anything is costly & time consuming, so doing so for a product that has stopped selling in any real quantity is not practical.
Plan-D Titles
As the Plan-D Discs are produced as a Disc-on-Demand product, meaning that a production facility only creates the disc and packaging when it's ordered, they are intrinsically unlimited.
However, this is not the actual case, as the production provider has a built in limitation that any title that hasn't been ordered within a 180 days period is automatically removed from their system and are therefore no longer available to order. So although in theory we could reupload this disc, any title that hasn't been ordered in the previous 6 months has probably exceeded its' sell-by date!
A point I've noted previously being discussed online is that these discs will be available indefinitely then is not quite correct, they will be available as long as people buy them. Although it's nothing when compared to the task of converting reuploading a disc that hasn't sold in 6 months feels like time that would be better spent elsewhere.
My advice in short then, is grab 'em while you can!
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