If LRG wants to continue to do blind boxes, they really should break them up into 2 categories: numbered release blind boxes and distributed release blind boxes. The problem with including both is the distributed titles drive the values down since they are available often times at Amazon, Target, Best Buy, Gamestop and Walmart while the numbered titles are only available from LRG and a lesser amount from partners.
They really shouldn't have any distribution line games in blind boxes at all. Distribution games that aren't sold should go back to the distributor.
Though I think the fact that they don't, means that LRG is the distributor and physical publisher and they just structure the contracts different so the dev/pub isn't paid up front but on a quarterly basis with a percentage of sales (allowing for some games to get price drops on Amazon, as we've seen).
Back to blind boxes... I'll give it to LRG, every year despite all the previous bad years of blind boxes people come in and go to town in hopes of catching a valuable item and walk away disappointed. Like the dude buying boxes of soundtracks and then being upset the first year that there were duplicates so opted to gamble a second year and got even more duplicates. Like, these folks don't learn. Plus buying in bulk is mostly going to fail because they pull stock for the single orders first and save the complex ones for the end. So the end folks are likely never getting a unique set of whatever blind stuff they had. They think they are gaming the system but instead get played. As long as LRG is selling out of their left overs... they'll keep on keeping on and of course they aren't going to separate excess distribution line games that no one wants and could have bought any day of the week. This is their chance to make bank on them by all the rubes who return to try their luck.
