Postby popfanboy » Wed Nov 22, 2023 7:13 pm
I think there's a lot they could do to revitalize the NFTs and make them exciting again. Firstly, better licenses. I feel like a lot of the recent drops have featured some more niche licenses while still making 50,000+ packs. Niche, smaller licenses are good every now and then, but you gotta sprinkle them in between the good ones and heavily reduce the amount of packs when you do. And even when they do popular franchises, like Jurassic Park, the redeemables themselves are a little lackluster sometimes. Let's get more new characters for these drops instead of reposed variants of characters we already have. Make them feel special.
I also think Funko needs to give us more reasons to really want to buy packs and open them ourselves. People have caught on to the fact that a lot of the redeemables end up being worth less once in hand, so they're skipping packs all together which is honestly the smartest thing to do but give us a reason to really want to buy the packs. Add some more 1/1's in there and actually make them! It might tick some people off that they'll never be complete on certain lines, but I think the majority would like the hunt. Make a silver, bronze, and gold 1/1 NFT and figure for each redeemable in the drop. That adds 15ish more pops to each drop and makes cracking packs much more lucrative.
I also think just treating the customers better in general would bring a lot of good faith back to the NFTs. I've personally never had an issue, but the delayed response time to damaged/missing pops has turned a lot of people off. And that's if they don't just give you $30 in credit. Shipping the NFTs in pop stacks or even offering us the option to pay for the add on, like you can for Pop Yourself, would make the NFTs feel like a much more premium product. The art series pops were sold in pop stacks, why not throw them in for the NFTs?
That was a long post and I mostly just repeated what a lot of people have been saying for a while, but I really look forward to the NFT drops and would love to see it have a long and healthy lifecycle.
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