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Bing_Oh

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Ok, I know this is a small thing but it REALLY annoys me...what's up with Vivendi going to those cheap paper sleeves for their CD's? I bought Evil Genius (another Vivendi-distributed game) and found the cd's in those cheap paper and clear cellophane sleeves, and now I see shots of HL2 with the cd's in the same type sleeves!

Admittedly, I was the same person who complained when they tried to do away with manuals and switch to the on-cd ones, but I just think that we gamers deserve the little things like nice manuals and real plastic cd cases considering how much we shell out for games nowadays.

Opinions? Am I just a petty, snivelling whiner or do other gamers agree?
 
No, that's pretty standard with games with that many CD's these days, if i'm correct.
 
thoose paper sleeves are ALOT cheaper than the CDs...

Vivendi need all the money they can get
 
Budget cuts probably. Vivendi's game division is running at a lost.....which may get turned around depending on how successful WoW and HL2 are.
 
i dunno how VU can possibly be struggling financially. they have publishing rights for Valve and Blizzard and some other big name developer that i can't remember right now. shouldn't they be stinking rich?
 
Ut2004 had about 6 of those sleaves, I dont mind much. As long as they have something good to keep them in.
 
I like the Far Cry/Doom 3 style cases. I'm disappointed with crappy paper sleeves and no manual, but it doesn't affect me because I'm buying off Steam anyway.
 
Seriously, who cares? Once you've installed the game you can shove all the CD's back into the box so they can collect dust for the next 5 years.

It's not like you're going to need any more protection than the box itself.
 
redundant said:
Once you've installed the game you can shove all the CD's back into the box so they can collect dust for the next 5 years.
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Not quite, a lot of people reformat much more frequently than that...
 
Bing_Oh said:
Ok, I know this is a small thing but it REALLY annoys me...what's up with Vivendi going to those cheap paper sleeves for their CD's? I bought Evil Genius (another Vivendi-distributed game) and found the cd's in those cheap paper and clear cellophane sleeves, and now I see shots of HL2 with the cd's in the same type sleeves!

Admittedly, I was the same person who complained when they tried to do away with manuals and switch to the on-cd ones, but I just think that we gamers deserve the little things like nice manuals and real plastic cd cases considering how much we shell out for games nowadays.

Opinions? Am I just a petty, snivelling whiner or do other gamers agree?
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I must say this irks me as well. I much prefer the jewel cases because I don't like my games to get scratched to hell within five minutes of taking the discs out of the box. Besides, a CD wallet full of games isn't nearly as impressive as rack after rack of jewel cases which currently cover the back wall of this room.
 
can you imagine how heavy the box would be with 6 jewel cases and cds which would mean an increase in postage which would mean less money for VUG. Just back up the gcf files to a dvdrw, get a dvd case and download the nice box art which would look way better than a box or 6 jewel cases. link http://www.marcopolo.me.uk/hl2.html
 
VodkA-HLC- said:
can you imagine how heavy the box would be with 6 jewel cases and cds which would mean an increase in postage which would mean less money for VUG. Just back up the gcf files to a dvdrw, get a dvd case and download the nice box art which would look way better than a box or 6 jewel cases. link http://www.marcopolo.me.uk/hl2.html
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Which is exactly what I've done, albeit from a different website. Look, if it's that sort of thing VUG are worried about, ship it on a DVD. This is the 21st century. A DVD-ROM must cost, what, $20US? Problem solved: VUG keep their costs down and the consumer gets to keep up with technological advances.
 
UT2K4 had 5 of the cd's in those envelopes, but they have a cardboard case to go into, that slides into a case that holds the 6th. It's like you store away the install cd's and just have the play disk in the accessible part ofthe case...works for me.

Too bad HL2 didn't do this.

Halo came in a hard paper envelope...no case.
Starwars:Battlefront came in a jewel case
PAinkiller came in a jewel case.
Farcry case in a jewelcase, but i got the dvd version.
Even the doom3 that came with my 6800gt came in a plastic case...
nothing but some paper sleeves with HL2 sucks. More reason t buy off steam and make your own disks...would end up the same if you printed labels, if not better!
 
Paper sleeves is something that bothers me also. I hopehte CE is a case.
 
cadaveca said:
. More reason t buy off steam and make your own disks...would end up the same if you printed labels, if not better!
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:cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:
 
It's just, what's the point of buying retail anymore? If Steam really catches on (and HL2 will be the acid test for Steam, proving whether or not online distribution is a viable commercial alternative for major games), distributers like VUG will have to give people a REASON to buy retail. If it was a choice between buying online and downloading or buying retail and getting cd's in a jewel case and a printed manual, I'd probably go retail. But, if cheap paper sleeves and no manual becomes the norm, distributers are going to find themselves wandering with the dinosaurs...extinct. A pretty box just isn't worth it.
 
I think that that is part of the point...all you are getting is a pretty box. NOt even a fricken' manual...justa box, and some cd's you coulda made, even customized, for yourself. This is the 21'st century...retail is oldschool. LoL
 
I don't get it, I like paper sleeves. All I have to do is shake the disc out.

Jewelcase... What an inconvienence! I have to open the damn thing and then push the "pushy-button" and then sometimes the disc doesn't move. And on top of that, I get some cool design that goes in the case itself.

:p
 
i HATE paper sleeves :angry: :angry: :angry:
i have lost those much more easily then CD/DVD cases.

whats with publishers being cheap and game developers not including MP with games? (HL2 themed MP, Bloodlines.. ) yeah.. im disappointed, can u tell? :|
 
those white slips don't bother mee too much if it has like 3 cds but if it was one it would bother me
 
Bing_Oh said:
It's just, what's the point of buying retail anymore? If Steam really catches on (and HL2 will be the acid test for Steam, proving whether or not online distribution is a viable commercial alternative for major games), distributers like VUG will have to give people a REASON to buy retail. .
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That's fine with me. Remember, only WE profit in the end, as long as there is no monopoly customers always win.
 
Put it this way -- there's a reason VU was not going to hold HL2 for six months that had nothing to do with the lawsuit.

(They're hemorrhaging money. Serves them right, the bastards.)
 
lets see,if the manual and jewel cases cost 50 cents and HL2 sells 10,000,000 copies that means 5 million dollars, thats alot of $$$
 
Hehe know what I say? I like it! you people are materialist basterds :P. Anyway paper sleeves and CD/DVD manuals are better for mother earth in the end. Besides once you used the CD/DVD and CD/DVD key you can throw the discs away if you wanted lol.

But I would have prefered a paper booklet then the sleeves, yes.
 
Love that UT2k4 case. Looking at it right now and it's damn classy. Really, how hard would that be to do for the "greatest game of all time?" Some of you guys have a good point - Steam and online distro in general will force publishers to put together more attractive packages for retail in order to compete. The rare case in which the consumer wins. Nice. Now if we can only get online distro to actually be cheaper than retail we may be onto something...
 
I agree with Gossoon, Atari managed to make paper slips look attrative by putting them in that cool cartridge thing.
 
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