Article: EA Sports saving trees, ditching paper manuals for games

[Zeus]

You can view the page at http://www.maxconsole.net/content.php?45193-EA-Sports-saving-trees-ditching-paper-manuals-for-games

[tech3475]

1. Source?
2. The reason they would cut manuals is to save money, any eviornmental claims will just be for marketing bs.

[WoIverine]

Yeah, of course, take away printed manuals and still give no cost reduction to game purchasers. Nice EA, nice. :mad: Just go ahead and give people more reasons to pirate stuff, good job.

[irie]

agree. i bet it will make a huge change for the environment, too. :P

[Battlefield]

The real reason is that they will earn more money for each game sold.

EA dont give **** about the trees. Its only something they say public.

[Khameleon]

They've been downgraded to two page black and white "bookleys" for years now.

[billysastard]

saving trees = no
saving money = yes

no print costs + lower shipping weight = lower costs.

if ea wanted to save trees it could simply plant more than it used.



still on the bright side think of the size of the payout once someone who isnt online cant read the "warnings" section and does something stupid then sues ea.

@SpiderCyde, very good point, without the manual who cares whether the game is on a dvdr or a pressed retail disc, the manual is part of the game like the box or the sleeve.

[kcvfr400]

I support less use of paper in the first place over recycling as it save energy costs and so 2 lots of CO2 emissions. I think it is better than planting more trees to replace it all as I prefer new forest they are creating in my country for instance to just be a new national forest not an active lumberjacks playground .
But would only support if EA and other build the manual into the game so as you pause you get the option to view the manual and also as you load for the first time you also get to access an ingame manual to read before you play. Get rid of the pointless cardboard sleeves found on many titles too.

[iLLNESS]

1. Source?
2. The reason they would cut manuals is to save money, any eviornmental claims will just be for marketing bs.

that basically sums it up. if they were oh so worried about trees they would just use recycled paper.

[jbondsr]

Who reads the manual these days anyway?
It's not like back in the NES/SNES days where they had full color, nice pictures/art, and some back-story that you could read on your ride home from the store.
(Although, I should have looked at it when I played Silent Hill 4. I basically walked through the whole game because I didn't realize there was a run option.)
These days, I just pop in the game and dive right in. On occasion, I press pause to see the button config.

[niboRasooR]

Such hypocricy! They just want to save printing costs!

So you cut down more trees and use nuclear energy. Way to go!

Now, I'm not a treehugger but I resent insulting gamers' intelligence this way.

Putting things online you have to:
- start your device
- load it up
- go online and use more power
- read it while using power
- or print the damn thing taking even more power to load the printer and putting down more trees since the printing paper is bigger