Why don't European boxes have the piece count?

[Pingles]

It's because in Europe they count bricks using the Metric Brick system.

[Etzel]

It's because in Europe they count bricks using the Metric Brick system.

Hahaha! Thanks for the laugh man!

[Blondie-Wan]

Ok, so I get that our set boxes in the US have the piece count (and more prominent choking hazard warnings) because of US product packaging regulations, though I still don't know why they're typically left off the European boxes. That said, a bigger question to me is why the European boxes usually don't even have the set names.

[Rick]

That said, a bigger question to me is why the European boxes usually don't even have the set names.

Wouldn't that simply have to do with the fact that many languages are spoken in a comparatively small geographic area? They'd have to make different box designs for every single country if they would include the set name.

[meyerc13]

What frustrates me is that on the North American packaging they prominently place the set name on the ends of the box in French, which I assume is for our neighbors up north in Canada. For those of us who don't speak French, it's difficult to browse sets in small stores where they store the sets sideways to save space.

[Sokratesz]

We aren't as easily impressed by numbers