SE:V Manual Released

Atrocities · #1 October 10th, 2006, 04:42 PM

I hate electronic manuals. Give me a paper manual and I will play the game.

Randallw · #2 October 10th, 2006, 05:15 PM

You do get a smaller paper manual with the boxed game, but the PDF is much bigger and contains colour pictures of practically everything. It would be uneconomical to include that as a hard copy.

Elsemeravin · #3 October 10th, 2006, 07:06 PM

Quote:

Atrocities said:
I hate electronic manuals. Give me a paper manual and I will play the game.

You can push the "print" button and it will magically become paper manual without costing a penny to MM

Atrocities · #4 October 10th, 2006, 07:17 PM

Ok let me put it too you this way. I used to pay $40.00 to $50.00 for a game that actually came with a manual. It didn't cost me any thing extra.

Today I still pay between $40.00 and $50.00 dollars for a game but no manual. So now not only do I have to pay full price for the game, I have to pay even more for the paper and the ink to print the game manual???? In todays age publishing a manual is no where near as expensive as it was five or even two years ago. Hell with all the new Xerox and LeXmark copier and printer technology they could mass produce manuals all day and still cost only penies. Whereas the cartrages of ink for my HP printer costs $50.00 dollars each and last only about 250 pages.

No Thanks. That is just greed on the game publishers end pure and simple.

Even more evidence of greed. We used to get nice solid jewel cases for the game disks. Now all we get are paper disk covers. Hum... how much do jewel cases cost? While we pay about $20.00 for 100 of them, they the game publishers pay about $0.6 cents for them.

(Small game publishers like Shrapnel are exempt from this. heir profit margins are so small that these costs do end up saving money and are perfectly valid cost control measures. But larger publishers who sell tens of thousands of games can aford the extra $2.06 that it would cost to include a manual along with a protective jewel case for the game.)

Caduceus · #5 October 10th, 2006, 10:00 PM

Thanks for the post, Jarena.

DarkHorse · #6 October 10th, 2006, 10:13 PM

At least we can still download a manual; in the console world you have to buy a "strategy guide" for $20 just to get what used to be in the manuals.

Elsemeravin · #7 October 10th, 2006, 10:53 PM

Maybe we have paper cover for CD instead of plastic to save the earth ecology ?
Maybe we have no printed manuals to save the Amazonian forest ?
Maybe I'm very naive

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DarkHorse · #8 October 10th, 2006, 11:00 PM

No offense, but I doubt the paper manuals are printed on trees cut down in the Amazon. Trees harvested for paper are generally the product of tightly controlled harvesting of a renewable resource. About the jewel cases you may have a point, although users can just buy their own empty cases cheaply anyway. Saving the environment is a worthy goal, in any case.

Jarena · #9 October 10th, 2006, 11:34 PM

I remember back in the day getting full-color, glossy page game manuals with my Nintendo games. Now I'm lucky if I get a half-piece of printer paper with the company's name and the conroller layout.
How the times have changed.

Caduceus:
Many thanks,
You wouldn't happen to be a MD, would you?

Caduceus · #10 October 11th, 2006, 12:02 AM

In this era of shrinkage - smaller boxes, smaller manuals, etc. it is a shame that manuals have fallen by the wayside.

PM'ed you Jarena.