Finally got the Wingspan Nesting Box. It fits all the current expansions and has room for the future. I swear it must clock in at like 20lbs.
Still a little annoyed that all the Wingspan stuff that holds sleeved cards won’t fit the mote or less widely available and “standard” sleeves (Wingspan cards are not the same size as many other games) but thats not really anything a little 3D printing can’t fix.
Nope, nobody likes one of the best selling and most popular hobby board games of all time. ;)
:D I've found it to be a divisive game, maybe some snobbery about it's mainstream appeal, and luck of the draw putting people off.
Also criticisms over egg laying, which I believe an expansion fixes, but most will have only played the base game, which does have faults.
People are fools if that's the reason why. Mainstream appeal for a hobby game means more hobby gamers to play with.
Oh exactly, I find it's slightly rigid people who have been playing in groups for years. I love gateway games.
The egg laying criticism is mitigated a little by the expansions. But I would also say it's kinda like the first strategy people realize can work. The game is so situational because of the card draw and the randomization that egg laying definitely CAN work well in a lot of scenarios, but personally I look at it as sort of a fall back if something better doesn't come along.
I think I can trace the insane oumt of Wingspan sales to a New York times article, at least what I gathered when swarms of non gamers started asking for Wingspan.
It still hovers in the top 10 on our sales charts despite not running out of stock at distribution (meaning it sells despite price competition)
The in-laws heard about it from the Today show and begged to play it. Ended after the first round and howls of "The Today show lied". It was not a pleasant evening but that was only a part of it.
Got my in-laws to play too. I think if folks aren't interested I anything beyond checkers or monopoly it's gonna be a tough sell. Having played Catan with them before I figured they'd pick up on it. Kinda mixed reviews but there was interest for sure.
By the time we were able to get hundreds of copies to meet demand the pandemic hit so we never did a demo night to teach those people.
I can also imagine a bunch of people paying well over the $50 MSRP during the great wingspan drought on its release year