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Originally Posted by trotter
Sigh...the old Falcon 4 manual.
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So beautiful...Gorgeous, what great memories. I still own pretty much all the manuals of the older games I have bought since the 90s. The disks are already gone (and backed up on my HD -- yeah you could do that before DRM!
That was before the "
greedy companies age"...). And some of them really do look like very solid books, like the manual to "Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe", or many others. That alone was a big point for me to keep buying games.
But Ubisoft really gets it right with the annouced move away from paper...
Someone in their marketing department really knows customer wishes! Next they declare that since people don't really like reading online manuals, and since baloon tips in the games need to be concise, also the features and functionality of games must be simplified. And in two year they realise, that they can save a lot of energy and help the environment if they only sell licenses to "imaginary games"... How far has this strayed from the right path already??? I have the impression that the days of Ubisoft in the PC market targeting a grown up, educated customership may be over within the next two years... After that it will be dumbed down console type games, and baby toys...