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xxvaderxx wrote:
In all honesty, i dont know what all the fuss is about, lets get real, it is not like the limited editions are going to be worth anything later down the line.

This is my thought exactly. If you want the LE for your particular army I'm not going to try and convince you otherwise but they aren't going to be worth much when a new codex comes out in a couple of years time. Just take a look on eBay and you can see previous codexexamgoing for pennies.

Although I don't buy LE, I still collect codex of my armies. I started late for SoB but if I could get copies of their older codex (I think 2nd Ed?) I would buy it just to have it in my collection.

Worth of an item to some collectors is just having it in their collection, not for profiting. So those who bought the LE but had defects like large dents, even if not for profit, may still want an intact copy for their collection.

I wonder, realistically, how collectible these GW books are, say 20 years from now. The story writing in them certainly isn't good enough to justify going to any effort to find limited printing books. GW retcons backstory only a little less then comic book companies, making them marginal research material for setting. The rules will be ridiculously outdated, even if the game is being played, so there is little value there. Other then the need to own something of purposely limited production run, were is the value? What will cause people to decide they need to have this limited edition book with no literary value and of interest to only a very tiny segment of the population as reference source.

As a collector myself, I just don't see any extra value in these books compared to the regular codices.

I see this as an extension of GW customer relations policy.

At GW we sell rules and army/codex books the customers have to fix them selves.
We sell minatures the customers have to fix them selves.(Finecrap.)
Now we sell limited editions where the customer fixed the number on the book them selves!



I wonder if all the numbers they sent out are the same to save on printing costs, everyone gets number 0123.

Rumbleguts wrote:
I wonder, realistically, how collectible these GW books are, say 20 years from now. The story writing in them certainly isn't good enough to justify going to any effort to find limited printing books. GW retcons backstory only a little less then comic book companies, making them marginal research material for setting. The rules will be ridiculously outdated, even if the game is being played, so there is little value there. Other then the need to own something of purposely limited production run, were is the value? What will cause people to decide they need to have this limited edition book with no literary value and of interest to only a very tiny segment of the population as reference source.

As a collector myself, I just don't see any extra value in these books compared to the regular codices.

IDK about the LE of anything but eBay shows that old 40K standard books go for about £5 to £20, if you just want the info.

It might be fairly easy and cheap to buy the 4th, 5th and 6th edition rulebooks, and the relevant codexes, and whip up your own version of the game.

 milkboy wrote:


Worth of an item to some collectors is just having it in their collection, not for profiting. So those who bought the LE but had defects like large dents, even if not for profit, may still want an intact copy for their collection.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Rumbleguts wrote:
I wonder, realistically, how collectible these GW books are, say 20 years from now. The story writing in them certainly isn't good enough to justify going to any effort to find limited printing books. GW retcons backstory only a little less then comic book companies, making them marginal research material for setting. The rules will be ridiculously outdated, even if the game is being played, so there is little value there. Other then the need to own something of purposely limited production run, were is the value? What will cause people to decide they need to have this limited edition book with no literary value and of interest to only a very tiny segment of the population as reference source.

As a collector myself, I just don't see any extra value in these books compared to the regular codices.

I'd say the immense volume of Limited Edition stuff reduces its value as well.

Of all GW Limited Edition stuff I'd say the books will probably retain their value the worst long-term. Miniatures- metal ones and older ones particularly- are good collectors items. I also think that the one recent GW product that would be a great collectable is the Void Shield Generator, especially if left in its box sealed.

Those crummy 'Warboss Edition', 'Collectors edition', 'whatever edition' stuff? I betcha they'll all be worthless in ten years.

The only reason I see this collectable having value is the objective markers and they never came out and said those were LE....still that's the assumption.

Hopefully the coins will have value.

Has anyone recieved their sticker yet? I emailed them back with my details and didnt get a reply.

I have mine, with a funny note written by my mate (weird, knhew it was his - read it and it was "in" his voice, before I knew it was his work) who works int eh studio. Quite a nice sticker, but nothing to be bothered about (616)

Do people really think the LE stuff will have any value? I but it for just looking nice; I dont buy them all, by any stretch, but this was pretty cool (very good graphical design, tokens) - similar to the lizardman book with the funky textured cover.

I got my sticker in the mail - 1832. Not that I actually care for it, but hey, I haz limited edition?

I could care less if the codex ends up being worthless, I got it because it looked cool and wanted the codex and the supplement all in one with cool covers, coins and an awesome chest. And I got that. So I'm a satisfied costumer!

Yeah, I'm bemused by people thinking any "collectors edition" of pretty much anything nowadays will actually have much enhanced value - not just GW, but ltd edition computer games, movies, etc.

Just to reiterate, I didn't buy it for an investment. I bought it because I love Orks, and I love collecting books especially LE items. I feel that not printing the numbers in the 'Limited Edition' books is the stupidest error they could have made besides misspelling Orks on the cover. Apparently GW doesn't think it's that big of a deal though frankly I'm still in awe. It's probably because I've spent a good chunk of my life working with collectibles.

so i am big on my le stuff, and would have been nice to have a number in my warboss dex, but was on the phone with them when i ordered it as to make sure there wasn't any errors in my shipping and make sure i got my low number (as i was pretty early on the buy), they said all books were already distributed to respective countries main warehouses and that even if you were the 1st one to order you may still end up with book 2000 as your country got books 1900-2000. def would have been nice to have a number in my book as i did want a low number, but honestly forgot to check the number was to into the rules updates i guess

 Dez wrote:
Just to reiterate, I didn't buy it for an investment. I bought it because I love Orks, and I love collecting books especially LE items. I feel that not printing the numbers in the 'Limited Edition' books is the stupidest error they could have made besides misspelling Orks on the cover. Apparently GW doesn't think it's that big of a deal though frankly I'm still in awe. It's probably because I've spent a good chunk of my life working with collectibles.

Huh? I didn't notice that at all. Where is this misspelling?

He means the only mistake more stupid than missing the numbers would be misspelling Orks on the cover.

But since the LE cover doesn't have text on it, they weren't able to make that mistake!

Exactly, just making a point