EA ditching paper manuals
- Thread starter Tinman
- Start date
Lupus
New member
I thought they already did in most cases, I open a box and there is another disc with manuals on them. Also the old days of the manual being this nice thick book explaining the story, and baddies seemed to have died out :-(. I still remember even my Zelda Game and Watch had a manual with a whole story on it.
Toxin
New member
Yeah, I was about to ask why they even bother with manuals these days. Ever since they stopped filling it with background stories they basically become useless.
My favourite manual is still the Warcraft3 manual. Massive backstory in that one.
shadowfox
Anime Junkie
What?!?! No manuals?!?!
HOW WILL I INSTALL THE GAME WITHOUT THE INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS!!!
First instruction is always: 1.) Insert disk into drive (or it may be second after "Please remove the plastic wrapping first" ... depends).
Without that, how am I going to know to insert the disk to read the manual!! Oh noes!!
Anyways ... I reckon going green is just a convenient excuse, the real drive is to cut costs and maximise profits. Next thing is going to be slim-line boxes - you know, to save on plastic ... not to cut costs. Cynic in me speaking ... but I'll hold to it.
HOW WILL I INSTALL THE GAME WITHOUT THE INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS!!!
First instruction is always: 1.) Insert disk into drive (or it may be second after "Please remove the plastic wrapping first" ... depends).
Without that, how am I going to know to insert the disk to read the manual!! Oh noes!!
Anyways ... I reckon going green is just a convenient excuse, the real drive is to cut costs and maximise profits. Next thing is going to be slim-line boxes - you know, to save on plastic ... not to cut costs. Cynic in me speaking ... but I'll hold to it.
shadowfox
Anime Junkie
Reminds me of another waste...
Yeah, but even the good old manuals from the good old days (and I haven't seen any of those in a while) weren't more than 60 or 70 pages. And had pictures
And you got a disk with a game on it as a bonus for buying the book ... how awesome was that? 
S Meyer's books, on the other hand, are several pages of near-unreadable bull, and the only thing you could possibly get from buying the book would be a vague indescribable sense of loss, quickly explained by looking into your wallet.
Raven Gold
Local Boy Hunter
Profit > Eco friendly. 
I've never really cared much for manuals myself though. If I want to know what the game is about after I baught it, I'd play the game. One thing I do miss though is things like Unit/weapon Profiles in games, explaining the story and features of the things shown. These days there isn't even anything, they just make something that looks cool and stop there without thinking about why it would look the way it does in the game world.
I've never really cared much for manuals myself though. If I want to know what the game is about after I baught it, I'd play the game. One thing I do miss though is things like Unit/weapon Profiles in games, explaining the story and features of the things shown. These days there isn't even anything, they just make something that looks cool and stop there without thinking about why it would look the way it does in the game world.
Failtron
New member
I have to agree with you. I remember reading over the Warcraft II manual over and over when I first got it back in the day, it had so much background story about all the characters, locations, different factions...
The manuals of today can hardly be classified as manuals, they don't make 'em like they used to. So doing away with them now is really a non-issue for me. Although what really does annoy me is putting the manual on the game cd/dvd in PDF format!
Duke Dude
New member
I actually like manuals 
, whenever I get a game and am waiting for it to install (Or when nature calls ) I always read the manual. Does anyone remember how thick Civ IV or Rome:TW's manuals were? They were EPIC!!
No I don't buy this eco friendly bullshit, they just want to maximize profits that's all.
, whenever I get a game and am waiting for it to install (Or when nature calls ) I always read the manual. Does anyone remember how thick Civ IV or Rome:TW's manuals were? They were EPIC!!No I don't buy this eco friendly bullshit, they just want to maximize profits that's all.
Deceptor
New member
I actually like manuals
No I don't buy this eco friendly bullshit, they just want to maximize profits that's all.
Same here, but lately some manuals are quite poor.
shadowfox
Anime Junkie
pfft...
this is a manual!
Remember the Jane's Combat Flight Sims? You needed the damn manuals or you couldn't even get your chopper/airplane started - nevermind off the ground.
