Ubisoft switching to digital game manuals

[iamthemilkman]

Thank god Atlus, Nintendo, Capcom, Larian, Deep Silver, and first party titles still exist. I love a big meaty manual.

 

[superrob]

Well im kinda like whatever. Ive never really found a manual which didn't suck or was just system requirements...
Its a complete waste of paper, but if they do this they MUST include it ON the CD! If im required to go to some stupid URL to get their manual that they could just burn onto the cd then ill never look at it.

Oh wait ill never look at it anyway as ill never give one single cent to Ubisoft. They have allways been shit in my eyes whenever i saw the Ubisoft logo i allways get disappointet in the games.

Ubisoft even added to the pile of shit by using their stupid DRM which is broken and doesn't reward paying custommers.

Its allways us pirates who win anyway.

Go to hell ubisoft.

 

[Maz7006]

who really reads these manuals anyway ?

 

[Sir-Fritz]

I read all the manuals to all my games. I know blizzards manuals are always pretty big.

 

[DeMoN]

That's because Blizzard manuals include an entire story as well. Their manuals are definitely worth reading.

 

[hotdogfire]

wow whats next eco friendly disk's ?

 

[lorddusk]

noooos, Ubisoft is destroying the RTFM quote

 

[superrob]

wow whats next eco friendly disk's ?

Lol. Imagine buying games on DVD+RW's? What if they forgot to completely delete the data from the old game/naughty movie xD

 

[Edgedancer]

I want to know why everyone is hating on Ubisoft for this. I honestly dont see the point. Eventually when digital distibution becomes the norm, I can guarentee that no one will complain about paper manuals. You can still print them off and I wouldn't mind seeing the instructions implemented like Nintendo does with their virtual console/wiiware titles. It would not take up a huge amount of space on the files and you would always have a copy at hand.

 

[zuron7]

Thank you Ubisoft!
This makes up for all the e-waste you generate of the games which no one plays.

 

[prowler]

This will be next.

 

[moose3]

Depends on the manual, I know I was still looking back over the manual several times while playing Oblivion, or the Fallout games, trying to plan out my leveling choices. But I'm agreeing with the 'include the pdf file on the DVD route', and it would be nice if you could go to the menu and view the file in game, or have the game 'alt-tab'able w/o breaking it.

If they really wanted to be more eco friendly, I say screw the DVD case, go back to the CD sized cases, then have the game box slightly bigger than the case.

 

[triassic911]

That's cool, no one reads the manuals anyways. I've always prefered reading .pdf files instead of a book myself.

Guildy always beats me

Well then, call child protection services.

 

[Psyfira]

It's a brilliant idea. Here in Europe games companies often print one manual for the whole region with each page printed up to 6 times in a different language, some of those get ridiculously thick. Paper manuals aren't completely useless, for the less technically minded casual gamers they are great as a refresher for people who haven't played in a while, or who have trouble remembering controls. Technology comes naturally to us, but for people who struggle with it there'd have to be some way to access the manual while in-game.