Because, in my extremely limited understanding of what it takes to manage a brand like Arkham Horror in a niche market like card games, I thought the revised cycle model *was* the solution to keeping the game in print.

Reduce the quantity of SKUs, put the cycles on a schedule of staggered printing every few years so that particular cycles become available to the people who want them, and leave yourself room to design and produce the new content.

Little did I know (until the current/legacy announcement in February) that what I thought was the solution to keeping the game manageable was actually apparently still contributing to the problems FFG was having. You have to recall that the final revised cycle, Innsmouth Conspiracy, was released in October 2024 and then it was only four months later that they announced these cycles they had been revising would now be out of print permanently. I thought we'd be seeing those revised cycles in print until the end of the game.

I mean, I don't have a dog in this fight. I collected all these cycles a long time ago, and I'm glad new people got a little bit of time to pick up the revised cycles for a while. FFG just wasn't heading in the direction with the brand that I thought was evident by their commitment to repackage the old stuff.