Top 10 Game Boxes That Contain More Air Than Game
[Originally published by www.tabletoptribe.com]
If you’re part of the tabletop gaming hobby, at some point you’ll run into the same problem as everyone else. Storage. It doesn’t matter how many trips to Ikea you make, you always seem to run out of essential storage for those… ahem… essential purchases.
Thus it’s frustrating when publishers compound the problem by insisting that you find storage space for huge cardboard boxes containing fresh air. It’s even more frustrating when they’re actually good games that you want to regularly take places without the encumbrance of all that needless cardboard.
Still, I don’t suppose those forests are going to cut themselves down, are they?
10. Age of War
Fantasy Flight games has made a name for itself over the years as a purveyor of top quality games with components to match. However, it’s also garnered a reputation for producing some of the most useless packaging.
Okay, so the Age of War box isn’t exactly huge at around 5"x5" (12cmx12cm), but when you take into account the fact that all it contains is 7 dice and 14…
