Ubisoft Says No More Game Manuals

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?"

Re:Why bother with manuals?

[eric-x]

Netbook.
I always take my netbook with me to the crapper.

Re:Home Improvement

[laederkeps]

Real men don't have all the original digits attached to their hands.

Re:Well at least they dropped

[Xsydon]

Does anyone remember playing an old school NES game called StarTropics? Half way through the game you were asked for a random 3 digit code, and had to provide it before you could continue. The code was inside the manual, and you had to run water over a page to make the code magically appear. Oddly enough, I still remember the code was 747.

Re:Has anybody read a modern game manual?

[Anonymous Coward]

FYI - You can access PDF versions of the manual for most any game you buy from steam by looking for the manual link on store page for that game.

Sometimes you can also get to the manual from the context menu for the game in the "My Games" list.

Re:Why bother with manuals?

[syousef]

I don't know about you, but I usually read the instruction manual on the crapper.

Did you hear that everyone!? Poster admits he is full of shit!