At a time where traditional games retail is under fire, where more and more gamers are moving to online portals to buy and play their games, publishers seem to be taking two routes to encourage retail sales.
One is publishers like Nintendo, and NIS America, who are offering stuff that makes buying a game through digital channels feel inferior. In the past year, I’ve picked up four game soundtracks without even trying; through the Mario Brothers All Stars collection, Xenoblade Chronicles, Ar Tonelico Qoga, and Sacred 2. Packaged in a nice box, with a nice colour manual that makes it worthwhile buying in store… a collectors piece, if you will.
On the other hand, there’s this:
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That’s it. No colour, no useful tips, there’s not even a page for “notes.”
Good morning!
I concur on the Madden 12 sentiment there, I'm playing it quite a bit right now, and will likely have a review out this week. That said, I did notice the same thing with the manual. I read an article awhile back though, that said several companies were going to do away with manual in general and just make them available in the pause screens – can't recall if EA was one of the ones discussed at the time, but they may have been.
Good morning!
I concur on the Madden 12 sentiment there, I'm playing it quite a bit right now, and will likely have a review out this week. That said, I did notice the same thing with the manual. I read an article awhile back though, that said several companies were going to do away with manual in general and just make them available in the pause screens – can't recall if EA was one of the ones discussed at the time, but they may have been.
Hi Chalgyr,
I must admit, I prefer NHL 12 to Madden, but they're both great.
I think it's poor from to do away with the manual. How exactly does a digital manual offer people something they can't just download? Publishers are always going on about how they want to work with retailers, and then they pull stunts like this.
Hi Chalgyr,
I must admit, I prefer NHL 12 to Madden, but they're both great.
I think it's poor from to do away with the manual. How exactly does a digital manual offer people something they can't just download? Publishers are always going on about how they want to work with retailers, and then they pull stunts like this.
I haven't played NHL since 10, but I was eying it used (well, NHL 11) the other day. I agree though, I don't like seeing the manuals go away. I liked reference to NIS as well. That extra stuff is nice to have on hand, and makes you feel like you're getting a bit more content. I'm still a retail-heavy guy most of the time, partially because you have 'value' on the games if you want to trade them in, but I used to read through all of my old NES and Genesis manuals and was disappointed to see companies slowly doing away with them to save a few cents here and there.
I haven't played NHL since 10, but I was eying it used (well, NHL 11) the other day. I agree though, I don't like seeing the manuals go away. I liked reference to NIS as well. That extra stuff is nice to have on hand, and makes you feel like you're getting a bit more content. I'm still a retail-heavy guy most of the time, partially because you have 'value' on the games if you want to trade them in, but I used to read through all of my old NES and Genesis manuals and was disappointed to see companies slowly doing away with them to save a few cents here and there.
I was looking for a copy of the manual online, thinking that they must have forgot to put the manual in my box!
That's pathetic.
I was looking for a copy of the manual online, thinking that they must have forgot to put the manual in my box!
That's pathetic.
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