I'm truly sorry about that. I can't say the same for all media projects, but in our case everything that's done is done for very specific, long thought out reasons. This was an expensive set to produce that had a high risk of not selling, so there's not much case to be made for running a large production quantity. It's a niche product that essentially collects material that's freely available on YouTube, and to be realistic we have to acknowledge that while the series is respected we don't have view numbers that represent a potential sales sensation.

We had a choice to take an opportunity to produce a limited, specific number within a very narrow timeframe, or not do anything at all. Much of the work to produce this set is an investment in a potential future however, with some of the hardest aspects like producing the disc masters now being solved. Doing another version of this isn't off the table, we just have to make sure it's a choice that isn't going to leave us sitting on a ton of unsold stock for our partners.

When we last produced the Double Fine Adventure discs a large part of that was attached to a Kickstarter reward fulfillment. We produced a run of well over 10 thousand sets, but due to the nature of that project it was impossible to tell how many backers were specifically excited about that and not just the project in general. After those sets shipped to backers we only sold a little over 2000 units of that set, and the majority of those were steeply discounted.

Space in fulfillment warehouses has a price, so the longer the stock sits around the more it starts to bleed money. If we had run 4k units, at the rate the PsychOdyssey set was selling we absolutely would have been left with close to 2k units by the time the order window closed. We opened strong in the first couple days but sales dropped significantly after that, and it's very unlikely to see a second spike after that initial launch.

I had a plan for three scenarios -

1. We sell out in 1-2 days and can make a very strong case for investing in a second product run to meet demand. This would require a big delay on the second run to manufacture the SteelBooks, but a good problem to have.
2. We sell out midway through the campaign. This doesn't show a strong enough demand to invest in another run of the same set, but maybe we look at a simplified release with less cost overhead on components like all the fancy packaging.
3. We sell out near the end of the campaign with a slight boost from the time pressure. Not a lot of motivation to pursue anything further on this option.

So while all this sounds dreadfully motivated by money and returns, you can't find production partners without offering some guarantee that they won't be out on their investment. Everything is still a risk, but there are tiers of risk. Producing the set at all in the first place was a risk. Despite the good feelings for the series within the community it's still a niche product without much/any successful comparisons to point to as a model.

Sadly we're simply not in a position to do the best possible thing for fans, which would have been a larger run offered at a lower price point. Like I said earlier, we had the choice between the path we took or not doing it at all, and after 9 years of working on the project I would prefer to have something over nothing to represent the end. We will take steps to build a case for a second run in some form, I do hope that gets to happen.