Re: Small Boxes
Nothing of the sort! the cost of printing a manual and whatever else is in there is negligable, and when I buy a game, I want to get a good manual with it, in a nice pretty box, and so on and so forth. I agree that being able to download the whole game for a lesser cost is a good idea, but if I'm acctually going to buy a game instead of just warezing it, I want it to be worth it. I get most of my games as torrents, Act of War is the first game I've bought in a long, long time, and that means taht it must be a damn good game. But that means that I expect a full manual, with plenty of fluff, and some other nice goodies. For example, in the beforetimes and the long-long-ago, when I bought Sonic and Knuckles for Genesis, it came with a poster, which is now up in the living room of my apartment. It's that kind of thing which makes retail acctually worth it.

And have you ever *tried* printing your own manual? It'll usually cost you around $5-$15 in paper and ink, if the manual's any good.

-AGT