Hey Ubi, consider this...

[kylania]

Originally Posted by wetwarev7

I think this is a really good point. One of the reasons I buy games a the store instead of online is to get a paper manual. Or at least it used to be. I can't remember the last time I got an actual paper manual that discussed the game.

It's like Ubisoft is reading our minds and totally ignoring what we want...

Ubisoft Doing Away with Printed Manuals

Ubisoft's digital game manuals will provide multiple benefits for the player and the environment. Including the game manual directly in the game will offer the player easier and more intuitive access to game information, as well as allow Ubisoft to provide gamers with a more robust manual.

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[janh]

Originally Posted by kylania

It's like Ubisoft is reading our minds and totally ignoring what we want...

Ubisoft Doing Away with Printed Manuals

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Good find! If they cut the price of their games by 50% in return then it would be fine, but for >=40$ is still have to think back to my old Aces of the Pacific, Aces of the Deep or Jane's Longbow printed manuals with 100s of informative and educative pages...

I think they are presently pressing forward quite fast to get to a pay-as-play games basis with monthly user fee per title or so. Then you'd already have conditioned your customers to purely digital manuals. I'd be really surprised if my notion is wrong here and it is just to save cost, or even if it were really the s*t they keep telling people... robust... LOL