Wait until you get one that just has a download code printed inside.
It will have a QR code to allow to register with your email on the game website so you can get the redemption code for the marketplace
I remember the old pre-millenium video games would come in a giant cardboard box to make buying a tiny floppy disk feel more worthwhile.
Pointlessly inflating packaging should just be illegal, it's pure wastefulness.
Nintendo sells game cases with nothing inside except a code for digital download lol
They've done this for awhile. I remember getting something like this for some of the Fallout 3 DLC on Xbox 360 ages ago
Genuinely a giant cardboard box would be a significant improvement over this. At least it’s not a ton of plastic.
I miss the old times of games that came in cardboard boxes with a manual. I have fond memories of buying Icewind Dale and Fallout 1/2 and spending some time reading the manuals. SiN also had a cool manual with a backstory comic that was the coolest shit to me as a kid.
Civ 3 came with a physical copy of the rules/civipedia. It was about 6x4" but was like 300 pages. That book was thicc.
I miss the Blizzard manuals. I spent so much time looking at the art for WarCraft 1 and 2.
Imagine how much plastic would be cut down if capitalism didn't insist on marketing space on their slop
Imo, a booklet should be mandatory if you are wasting this much plastic to sell a physical game cartridge. Physical collectors really should get cool art stuff as a treat lol.
I still hold onto my Morrowind map that came with my Xbox copy. More maps!
I love my Oblivion copy for the 360 for that reason. The thick booklet and map are reaaaaallyyy cool.
Owning the game is still far better than "owning" a digital copy FWIW.
But yeah, I really miss the era of opening a game and it coming w/ a fun colorful instruction manual and even a cheat-code or two.
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Nintendo 20 years ago. They’ve doubled the size of the box and removed the booklet. Also MSRP is no longer $40 like it was for DS games, it’s $70.
Not only that but they took away the handy GBA cartridge holder
If the covers aren't going to have anything inside just make the damn container smaller
it's literally about shelf space because the container is an advertisement
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Boardgames have the same problem.
DRG board game has so much stuff it's hard to re-pack it, thing is loaded
Those CD Cases were made for me! 
