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I am slowly getting back into X-Wing 2.0 but have noticed that the new packaging is excessive. Example the Guardians of the Republic Squadron Pack.
The inside of the outer box is printed for no reason. The multiple layered plastics for the ships cover the whole box, not just the window area, The backing insert is printed as a starfield.

Other new blisters have cardboard spacers and three layers of clamshell for the ship, It just seems they could review it and reduce cost. I understand doing certain things
to standardize the size of the box, but whoever is making their packaging is making a killing. Paying for double-sided printing when it's not needed and just the excessive unneeded
plastic bags for everything.

Indeed, they take it way way too far.

But its the same company who made a collectible game with plastic dice where 90 percent of them ends up useless so im not surprised.

The xwing packaging is in its own league though, insanely wasteful.

It's always been that way for Armada, as well.

That's kind of my point... FFG just had layoffs yet, spend more money than they need to on unnecessary packaging. Repackage it and
reduce the amount to save the company money.. Unless the guy that is behind it is getting some type of kickback.

Yes, GW does get crazy some times, but there does seem to be thought behind it. Like the spacer sheets, those make great posters
so it's not actually wasted.

I despise the 2.0 packaging for ships. Such a pain to open up.

The worst thing to happen in 2.0 was the new packaging. Seems like they have now standardised everything so regardless of how many ships you have in a big box it will take the same size plastic insert. Then there's the small ship packaging that has no good way to open it other than to hack at it with a knife or scissors, which seems pretty dumb.

If FFG were that bothered about sustainability they'd probably have reduced rather than exponentially increased the number of tokens required to play the game in 2.0 though !

 Genoside07 wrote:
That's kind of my point... FFG just had layoffs yet, spend more money than they need to on unnecessary packaging. Repackage it and
reduce the amount to save the company money.. Unless the guy that is behind it is getting some type of kickback.

Yes, GW does get crazy some times, but there does seem to be thought behind it. Like the spacer sheets, those make great posters
so it's not actually wasted.

What do you with the spacer sheets with GW stuff? It's been a long time since I've bought any recent kits so not sure what those are!