I was already right on the cheaper cases leading to something more. I like my odds on no manuals leading to something else.
All theory, regardless. Plus, I doubt one really lead to another per say. This is part of the world we live in right now, and I'm pretty surprised they haven't caught on how useless they've become about half a decade ago
Your argument is that because I don't look at it, it is worthless to me. I rarely buy games in stores. When I do, I know what I want, I don't need to look at the back of it. So it'd be worthless to me just like the manual. It's hardly a strawman since your whole position is based on me looking at it.
Not just look at, but also use. Regardless of whether you look at back yourself, it still serves those purposes since the majority of people are still shopping in brick and mortar stores, so they do have some validation. Manuals do not do those things in any shape or form. Dressing your strawman up like a man doesn't make him a man.
The reasons are irrelevant. If I want it, I should want it. And you keep ignoring that I do look at the manual for some games.
Which is way I said
use. Even if you flip through it once or twice while the game installs or something, I bet you rarely even read through out and just look at the pictures like everyone else. You're free to want it, but if you can't provide solid reasons why you want it then you stand shouting 'I want' in the wind. Which, like I said, material conservation is simply more important than anything you've put forward for why this is a bad move.
And I'm not 'ignoring' the fact that you said you look at some of them, but you yourself said it was a rarity:
No manuals is annoying. I rarely look at them but it's nice to pick up a case and actually feel there's something there. UbiSoft has been skimping on their manuals lately so them ditching them is no loss. I just hope other companies don't follow.
Not even using the material it provides for the game, but just looking at it.
Yes, I don't look at every manual but I look at some of them. I'd rather put up a fight over this than have to put up a fight over thinner cases or some other "eco-friendly" nonsense they do to save a buck. This will escalate to something.
So, fight something that's actually a good thing and doesn't really effect you in the hopes of stopping something that will be a bad idea? That's some rather loopy logic, in my opinion. You should be petitioning to make sure they don't do that instead of focusing on something that's useless saying that it's the beginning of the end.
And even if the 'eco-friendly nonsense' is all some kind of PC move, it at least conserves some material. Some material that was going for something that's been pretty much irrelevant for a good couple of years now.
Should this become a trend?
