Man, no love for the box here at all...? Yeesh.
Personally, I'm on board with this, I love the idea. That isn't to say I'd want a box for
every game, but I remember the novella-length manual for MechCommander (with several glossy full-color pages of available Mechs in the center), the poster-sized maps of Vvardenfell, Mournhold, and Solstheim that came with my Morrowind / Tribunal / Bloodmoon boxes - yes, I bought them separately, when companies still made legit expansions - and the boxes themselves covered in screenshots, artwork, descriptions and blurbs. The box itself was trying to sell you the game, saying "Hey, this thing in your hand? Buy it!"
When you compare that to now, where games come in cheap DVD cases whose cover work is 50% PC requirements, legal disclaimers, online requirements, and other fine print, and within is nothing more than a couple sheets of paper urging you to buy moar DLC... yeah, it feels like companies stopped trying. It says to me, "We don't care enough about our game to even package it right," and if they don't care, why I should I?
I know I'm part of the Old Guard here, and even I'll admit I don't have much nostalgia for blowing into NES carts, but damned if I don't want this to succeed. I understand not everyone feels like I do but hopefully there's enough of us out there to make it happen.
As a final word:
Olas said:
It's just a piece of plastic. If you want to handle a piece of plastic I'm sure there's a bottle in your recycling you can fondle.
No, Olas, there's a lot more to it than just "a piece of plastic." You may not share my feelings or opinion on the subject and that's fine, but there's no need to be derogatory or condescending to people who
do want to feel like they're getting the value they used to from a physical copy.