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The bigger the box the more carefully I have to consider purchasing it, so when I order something and the box is oversized (excluding necessary inserts/expansion room) it just feels horrible.I could have twice the games if they all took up half the space. It's a shame I care so much about retaining the original boxes.If you're wondering which game prompted this post it was palm island. It's a double-deck sized box with one decks worth of cards in it. On the other hand there are games like Burgle Bros and Ravens of thri sahashri which fill their boxes so perfectly.
There seems to be a new trend lately. Boxes for hobbyist board games (designer games from the likes of Knizia, heavy euros, hybrid and niche games like Root, small publishers like Splotter) are shrinking.
Instead of focusing on box size, they are letting graphic design, artwork, title, and/or weight do the talking. They're either shrinking components or putting less in, packing a lot in a thin package. Take a look at games that have come out recently following this trend: Root, Battle for Rokugan, Blue Lagoon, Clans of Caledonia, Brass Birmingham, Healthy Heart Hospital, Food Chain Magnate. High Society.
These boxes pack a ton of stuff in a relatively itty bitty package. I think publishers have caught on that while casual and new gamers don't care much about space, a hobbyist target market does. Not only is this something a lot of fans ask for, but it makes perfect sense. The more room a hobbyist has on her shelf, the more games she can buy to fit on there. And if the artwork is good enough and the box feels heavy enough, it feels worth the price.
Not to mention online sales where the imposing, impressive nature of a big box does not really come across, so you're not losing anything from your web store. Not saying your points aren't ones publishers consider, I totally agree with them. But I'm seeing a trend in spite of those points. Yeah, I know about the shelf real estate thing, per my comment above. But that becomes moot in Kickstarters, for online sales, and while selling to a hobbyist with either limited space, an insatiable appetite for a niche, or bases their purchases on even a little bit of research. The price point of a lot of these games means you're not selling these to a casual shopper who buys a book by its cover. I think nowadays there are a ton of reasons that small box is outweighing big box, especially when the total components are similar in weight or number.
I think hobby board games are moving in this direction too. Not that brick and mortar stores are dying, but there are far more online sales and KS campaigns. Online, box size doesn't matter. So if you can get the same components into a smaller box, you can save a bit on shipping costs. Plus hobby board gamers care about space because they tend to have a large collection. They can buy more games if those games fit in a smaller space. So games that aren't marketed to casual players have less or no incentive to make a bigger box.
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One of the biggest issues for me is box size. The bigger the box the more carefully I have to consider purchasing it, so when I order something and the box is oversized (excluding necessary inserts/expansion room) it just feels horrible.I could have twice the games if they all took up half the space. It's a shame I care so much about retaining the original boxes.If you're wondering which game prompted this post it was palm island. It's a double-deck sized box with one decks worth of cards in it.
On the other hand there are games like Burgle Bros and Ravens of thri sahashri which fill their boxes so perfectly. There seems to be a new trend lately. Boxes for hobbyist board games (designer games from the likes of Knizia, heavy euros, hybrid and niche games like Root, small publishers like Splotter) are shrinking. Instead of focusing on box size, they are letting graphic design, artwork, title, and/or weight do the talking. They're either shrinking components or putting less in, packing a lot in a thin package.
Take a look at games that have come out recently following this trend: Root, Battle for Rokugan, Blue Lagoon, Clans of Caledonia, Brass Birmingham, Healthy Heart Hospital, Food Chain Magnate. High Society. These boxes pack a ton of stuff in a relatively itty bitty package. I think publishers have caught on that while casual and new gamers don't care much about space, a hobbyist target market does.
Not only is this something a lot of fans ask for, but it makes perfect sense. The more room a hobbyist has on her shelf, the more games she can buy to fit on there. And if the artwork is good enough and the box feels heavy enough, it feels worth the price. Not to mention online sales where the imposing, impressive nature of a big box does not really come across, so you're not losing anything from your web store. Not saying your points aren't ones publishers consider, I totally agree with them. But I'm seeing a trend in spite of those points. Yeah, I know about the shelf real estate thing, per my comment above.
But that becomes moot in Kickstarters, for online sales, and while selling to a hobbyist with either limited space, an insatiable appetite for a niche, or bases their purchases on even a little bit of research. The price point of a lot of these games means you're not selling these to a casual shopper who buys a book by its cover. I think nowadays there are a ton of reasons that small box is outweighing big box, especially when the total components are similar in weight or number. I think hobby board games are moving in this direction too. Not that brick and mortar stores are dying, but there are far more online sales and KS campaigns. Online, box size doesn't matter.
So if you can get the same components into a smaller box, you can save a bit on shipping costs. Plus hobby board gamers care about space because they tend to have a large collection. They can buy more games if those games fit in a smaller space.
So games that aren't marketed to casual players have less or no incentive to make a bigger box.