{"id":5806,"date":"2010-04-20T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T11:21:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"ubisoft-ditches-printed-user-manuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/5806-ubisoft-ditches-printed-user-manuals","title":{"rendered":"Ubisoft ditches printed user manuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mega-publisher Ubisoft has announced that in order to be &ldquo;greener&rdquo;, it is planning on no longer printing manuals to accompany its games. Instead, it will beef up in-game instructions, theoretically nullifying the need for printed instructions.<\/p>\n<p>Ubisoft is claiming that its intention is to make its operation more environmentally friendly, which is great, and I&rsquo;m sure they won&rsquo;t miss the printing costs.<\/p>\n<p>Not only will they remove the manuals, but they will start using &ldquo;eco-friendly&rdquo; cases. Apparently Splinter Cell: Conviction was the first game to use the new case, although I didn&rsquo;t notice any difference in my review copy.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I think it&rsquo;s great to see big companies like Ubisoft moving toward lessening their impact on the environment.<\/p>\n<p>Still, gamers around the world are bound to be annoyed, as the game manual is an important part of a purchase for many.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publisher moves to lessen its impact on environment with new cases and no manuals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}