Indie developers with loyal fans need to tie in the fans with special editions, just like big companies are. I can buy fable 2... or I can buy the limited editi

Indie developers with loyal fans need to tie in the fans with special editions, just like big companies are. I can buy fable 2... or I can buy the limited edition and get a load of stuff, that as a fan, I would like to have. Same can be said with Fallout 3 and any number of games over the past 5 years. I mean Sid Meier's games release with like a 150 page manual, and I buy Sid Meier games (mostly because I like them enough) partly for the manual. He could do any number of things. If you buy Geneforge 5's silver edition you get a signed limited edition Geneforge t-shirt. Gold edition, get a signed limited edition novelization of Geneforge 1-4's story and a signed t-shirt. Personally, if I'd played the demo and loved it, I'd probably jump into Geneforge 5 with a special edition if I got a book telling me the story I'd have gone through in previous games. A few loyal fans will be willing to pay more for things that can't easily be reproduced, and I'd hedge my bets that if he's earning a living off of an indie game he's got enough loyal fans that this would probably be quite profitable (especially if people want to give him money).