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?"

Comments

Why bother with manuals?

[PolyDwarf]

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 :))

Re:Why bother with manuals?

[need4mospd]

That sounds more like a "brown" initiative.

So games will be cheaper then?

[Manip]

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?

[T Murphy]

It's called 'green' for a reason, you know.

Re:Well at least they dropped

[adonoman]

I liked the ones that came with a red filter that you had to hold over a paper with a bunch of seeming gibberish to reveal the secret codes. It's like getting a computer game AND a fun spy toy at the same time...