Game manuals - reckon they should be available online if not packaged with hard copy - so its then your personal choice if you want to 'cut down' trees or 'hug' them. IMO the hard copy manual is always a part of the complete 'original package' - with some much better than others. Generally Japanese Import & Nintendo game manuals sport some of the best colour artwork / details - many are much better than some big budget game release cheapo mono printed efforts. But, will any of this really stop the destruction of rain forests - many destroyed in order to farm Palm Oil etc ?....
i think this is a good idea. Personally, i either lose the manual or nevber open it. with no manuals and recycled cases, maybe we can ge the price of games dropped a little? cmon lol huh huh *nudge nudge*
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I agree for the most part, I personally like reading the thicker, nicer looking manuals, but a price drop in games would be worth getting rid of manuals for me.
I do like a good game manual, but I suppose if they want to make an initiative to help with the environment, it's fine with me. The recycled cases thing is good (as long as that doesn't mean flimsy cases). I'm surprised not all the companies have started doing that yet. And this should [hopefully] mean a drop in price. If it doesn't, well, that's a bit of a rip-off.
No manual? I hope this doesn't become a trend with other developers. True, if there is an extended tutorial, I won't immediately go read the manual. But in 9/10 cases, I'll want to know the details of playing the game or look up an ability of sorts in the manual.
its sad this thread is about plastic bags now. the other side of being eco-friendly is reuse. yes finding new uses for things you would have otherwise thrown away. i reuse my plastic bags. they work well for diapers and the like.
Most of my game purchases these days are through digital distribution, with Steam, where there are no physical manuals. I don't mind at all. However, this means that everything necessary to play the game should be contained in the game, itself, or accessible online. Not enough companies digitize their game manuals and make them accessible through Steam, which does bug me somewhat.
I don't remember Ubisoft having any great manuals anyway...now if Bethesda did this or this happened to some RPG games like Dragon Age or NWN 2....that would suck
I don't remember Ubisoft having any great manuals anyway...now if Bethesda did this or this happened to some RPG games like Dragon Age or NWN 2....that would sucksmerlus
I agree entirely with this guy - but reckon cost of a game without hard copy 'paper' manual should = lower game retail price, & costminimum 10% less.
Lets not forget, ubisoft is a business, the real reasons for this initiative is itssaving them ('the publisher') money 1st and foremost, them saving the world is a distant 2nd.
I don't remember Ubisoft having any great manuals anyway...now if Bethesda did this or this happened to some RPG games like Dragon Age or NWN 2....that would sucksmerlus
Remember the BG2 manual? That thing was like 400 pages long, I would have been pretty lost in the game if it wasnt for the manual. Trying to learn the ins and outs of hundreds of spells and all the different classes of characters you can play. Manuals should be mandatory for rpgs.
[QUOTE="smerlus"]I don't remember Ubisoft having any great manuals anyway...now if Bethesda did this or this happened to some RPG games like Dragon Age or NWN 2....that would suckGodModeEnabled
Remember the BG2 manual? That thing was like 400 pages long, I would have been pretty lost in the game if it wasnt for the manual. Trying to learn the ins and outs of hundreds of spells and all the different classes of characters you can play. Manuals should be mandatory for rpgs. So that's probably why I couldn't get into BG2... I bought a cheap edition with no manual :(
[QUOTE="GodModeEnabled"][QUOTE="smerlus"]I don't remember Ubisoft having any great manuals anyway...now if Bethesda did this or this happened to some RPG games like Dragon Age or NWN 2....that would suckBlack_Knight_00
Remember the BG2 manual? That thing was like 400 pages long, I would have been pretty lost in the game if it wasnt for the manual. Trying to learn the ins and outs of hundreds of spells and all the different classes of characters you can play. Manuals should be mandatory for rpgs. So that's probably why I couldn't get into BG2... I bought a cheap edition with no manual :( it's like going to church without a bible. half the time you don't know what the **** their talking about
[QUOTE="Black_Knight_00"][QUOTE="GodModeEnabled"] Remember the BG2 manual? That thing was like 400 pages long, I would have been pretty lost in the game if it wasnt for the manual. Trying to learn the ins and outs of hundreds of spells and all the different classes of characters you can play. Manuals should be mandatory for rpgs.smerlus
So that's probably why I couldn't get into BG2... I bought a cheap edition with no manual :( it's like going to church without a bible. half the time you don't know what the **** their talking about And the other half you wish you still didn't :lol:
manuals used to be cool. Now they are like half a page long if that. Still think the best ones were those old flight sim manuals that came in huge binders.
I don't know if the games published by Ubisoft need an instruction manual anyway, I just know that Ubisoft is desperately trying to have a better reputation while they are responsible for "you-can't-play-this-because-Ubisoft-says-you-need-to-be-online-for-single-player, you-need-to-have-a-lot-of-disadvantages-because-you-can-fck-yourself and we-want-to-get-money-by-collecting-your-data" games. I think I'll just buy used games (old ones of course) of Ubisoft in the future, they don't deserve 1 penny. I already regret every single game I purchased, but hey, I'm not a fortune teller.
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