>>10411792I'm an opener, and I still didn't like it 'cuz when buying from stores, you can't avoid an obvious QC issues, and you could also get bamboozled by return swap faggots (we have a rampant problem here in the IE), but also, it's harder to figure out if you want something or not, such as seeing the sculpt, paint apps, articulation, accessories, scale, etc. Box art is just that, and not the final product.
Yeah, online you have no such luxuries, most of the time, but still, that shits stupid and pointless, and wasn't a desired feature by the actual product consumers.
Environmental factors are moot, because the plastic that does fuck with nature is mostly from food products carelessly discarded therein, such as soda pack rings at the beach. Toy collectors aren't opening toys on the beach or in a forest or none of that shit, we open it at home and toss all of that shit in the trash where it needs to go.
