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For those out of the loop, the Final Fantasy XIV Hydaelyn Zodiark figure/statue recently began arriving at people’s homes and the packaging is inadequate to say the least. Let’s talk about Square Enix, Video Games Figures, Anime Figures, Collecting, and Quality Expectations when purchasing products at this price point! See you all in Dawntrail!
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I guess the Japanese aren't aware of how poorly mistreated parcels are in Western world delivery companies.
This isn't SE's fault, it's your mail carrier.
This fig is actually packaged pretty well with large molded pieces of support material stuffed in all the nooks and crannies.
There's a balance between robust packaging and the customer's ability to remove it from that packaging without doing damage, and even the best expanding foam packing material cannot protect your package from being dropped off a 5 foot tall conveyor belt at the mail sorting facility because they never maintain their machines.
These figures are actually shipped in molded plastic in a HUGELY oversized box for them designed to absorb shock, and they're supposed to have molded plastic shapes encasing the wings so they are immobile.
I work at the post office, and I can say for sure that the way parcels are handled is insane. We have actual people who do what we call “parcel throwing”, which is one person standing center of a circle of anywhere from 5-40 very large rolling bins, possibly more. EVERY parcel gets basketballed into their bins from the central position where the worker “throws” from. Does not matter weight or otherwise. You might get your statue thrown first, and have a box of cat litter thrown right on top of it.
It’s disgusting and I hate it, but it’s just one more business that prioritizes speed over anything else.
The Sephiroth figure that comes with the rebirth collectors had the wing in 2 separate parts, the base in a couple parts, and the sword as well. So Square knows what to do and makes me wonder why they haven't with this and now I worry mine is going to come broken.
Im so glad that my Nier automata A2 figurine came in intact, even the dude that brought it to my door was very curious to know what he was delivering, so he must have really been careful with it and im damn glad that if he did
The canonical term is sundered. Get it right.