Ubisoft Says No More Game Manuals 400
thsoundman writes with this excerpt from The Gamers Blog: "No more manuals? Ubisoft announced last week that they will be ditching the trend of printing instruction manuals for new games under the 'green' initiative. While no other publishers have jumped on that 'green' train just yet, it is likely that others will follow suit. Printed manuals have been part of gaming since you bought PC games in plastic bags. There have been many standout eras for manuals, such as the NES-era booklets to the manuals that accompanied Electronic Arts vinyl-sized game sleeves. Some may argue that the advancement in on-screen contextual commands and first-level tutorials have made the manual pointless, but is this really the case?"
Why bother with manuals? (Score:5, Funny)
When no one can play your game due to drm servers being down?
(come on, you know it's going to be said many times in this thread.. Might as well get it going early :))
Who reads manuals anyway? (Score:0, Funny)
I just mash the controls with my fat hands or dialing wand until I figure out what does what.
So games will be cheaper then? (Score:5, Funny)
Since games now ship without a manual I am sure all of those savings will be passed on to the end consumer, right?
Re:So games will be cheaper then? (Score:5, Funny)
RTFM? (Score:4, Funny)
So now I am going to look stupid telling people to RTFM. I don't know, but RTFCH (read the F. contextual help) just doesn't feel as catchy.
Re:Why bother with manuals? (Score:1, Funny)
Yeah, obviously I didn't even read the summary.
Greed, not green (Score:1, Funny)
surely a typo.
Re:Well at least they dropped (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why bother with manuals? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why bother with manuals? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Green? (Score:3, Funny)
What, you think game disks are analog?
(And yes I know what you meant ;-) )
Re:Why bother with manuals? (Score:2, Funny)