ZeroMachine said:THAT is BULLSHIT. I would have refused to buy that CD on principalmysecondlife said:As long as they don't try to charge you for manual separately, it wont matter at all.
I once bought a music cd with no lyric booklet. you had to buy them separately for a dollar. Well that pissed me off.
EDIT: Huh, wow, ok, probably a little hypocritical on my part... but I feel like in that case the band could have easily prevented that. It's bad PR.
well.. they have the basics like controller layout within the game.SonOfVoorhees said:But why look online on a PC for a manual for an 360 game? That i dont agree with. Why not unlock it from the game disc and view it that way? Even so, i do agree with your comment.mysecondlife said:As long as they don't try to charge you for manual separately, it wont matter at all.
Yeah, why not?SonOfVoorhees said:Sorry. That comment was a mistake. Maybe i communicated my original thread wrong. I just think this is a slippery slope into digital gaming and paying full price for nothing. Why was it PC only to download? Why not download it to your 360?
Honestly, why should the price change? The product you were paying for then was the game, the product you're paying for now is the game.SonOfVoorhees said:But when i look at Steam, its not cheap. Games to download are only £5 cheaper than buying a physical copy. But when everything is digital, and Game shops no longer exist, the games will raise to normal AAA prices.
More to the point, considering most artists have little-to-no input regarding the release itself in terms of formatmysecondlife said:Considering the band doesn't make much from the album sales, I pointed my fingers at the record label.
This for me is the deciding point rather I buy new or used; If a game has something like Dark Souls where the first run or all pre order's get a whole bunch of swag added on for free it's a no brainer to get it new day one just for the extra items.karloss01 said:an A4 sized box about 1.5 inch think box that came with the game in a CD case and a instruction manual that doubled as a Lore book for a game. Not only that but some of the games came with Posters, stickers or even collectable items (my Army men 3: Toys in Space came with two plastic soldiers, one green the other tan) all for the basic retail price that we pay today for less.
Haha, it's almost as bad as the "I'm losing faith in humanity" threads. Really, this the most petty criticism I've ever heard. Yes, it's even more petty than Yahtzee complaining about Batman: AA's cover art. You're complaining about having to go to an outside source to learn about a game, when that's exactly what a game manual is anyway. Why read about a game when you just, I don't know, maybe play it?ZeroMachine said:... The manual.
You're saying the future of gaming is crappy... because of the lack of a manual.
Good god, this is why I hate this website sometimes...
what about those poor, poor bastards who do not have access to the internet?Screamarie said:....Why is it that people get so upset whenever they have to DO something to get what they want? "I have to go online for a manual?! How horrible! Even if the game does have an in-game tutorial!"
*snipped for not being what i'm commenting about, and that i agree with it*
I agree. And I don't understand what the logic is to this anymore. EDF Insect Armeggedon I bought from Wal-Mart open it up and no manual (but an enviromentally friendly case). Not a slip of paper. Nothing. I honestly thought there was a factory fuck up but that is how it shipped. Then I open Fear 3 and the manual is 1 page (and 1 french because I live in Canada). But it also has another page of ads to rent WB movies on zune and a huge cardboard thing for a 25 digit online pass. And it isn't one of those less plastic cases!!! WTF??? At least Batman AC kept their 3 ridiculous codes on tiny slips of paper.SonOfVoorhees said:I expect a manual with a brand new full price game.ZeroMachine said:... The manual.
You're saying the future of gaming is crappy... because of the lack of a manual.
Good god, this is why I hate this website sometimes...
It's a valid point. One of the benefits of buying a game is to have a referance book handy while your playing it. It's been that way forever. Right now game companies are demanding top dollar while giving us less for what we pay.ZeroMachine said:... The manual.
You're saying the future of gaming is crappy... because of the lack of a manual.
Good god, this is why I hate this website sometimes...