Oldblood Posted December 1, 2003 Share Posted December 1, 2003 At my store CMBB comes in one of these "practical, cool" DVD-boxes, wish I don´t like BTW.... However; in almost every PC-game I´ve ever bought in a DVD-box I´ve gotten a manual on an extra CD, or (worse of all) no manual at all! :mad: Now: I guess many of you have got the game, (if I´m not the only one without it! ) so at least one of you must have bought the game in such DVD-box. And my question is: Do I get any manual if I buy the game in such a box? Cuz, actually: I love reading manuals! Thanks! [ December 09, 2003, 03:59 PM: Message edited by: Oldblood ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted December 1, 2003 Share Posted December 1, 2003 Don't worry, the full manual is in the DVD box. It's one of these special boxes which are bigger from the inside than the outside, just like newest women's shoes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted December 1, 2003 Share Posted December 1, 2003 Are you American, Euro, or other? I guess Germany has some tight CD packaging laws which is why the original Euro release CDV manual was mostly in PDF format. But if you're talking "Box" then you must be talking "Special Edition", which means you're talking "full manual"...I believe 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldblood Posted December 1, 2003 Author Share Posted December 1, 2003 I´m living in eurupe! Sweden.... to be exact! It´s just to hope I´ll get it.... if not it seams to be for sale here on the net! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted December 1, 2003 Share Posted December 1, 2003 Originally posted by MikeyD: Are you American, Euro, or other? I guess Germany has some tight CD packaging laws which is why the original Euro release CDV manual was mostly in PDF format. Nonsense, I was in Hamburg/Germany last month and half of the games shelfes were still filled with games in full-sizes boxes. Note that this makes for much less than half the games for obvious reasons, but CDV's excuse that nobody can sell normal size boxes anymore is nothing more than a lie. Maybe you can sell more, but they claimed "impossible" which can be verified with a single look. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted December 1, 2003 Share Posted December 1, 2003 I wouldn't mind if games came in smaller boxes. I always felt that at least half the volume of conventional boxes was wasted anyway. Hearts of Iron, which I recently got, comes in a smaller box, one just big enough to hold the DVD box and a pretty good-sized manual. Unfortunately, they failed to take advantage of the extra space to include a really hefty manual, but it can be done. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firefly Posted December 2, 2003 Share Posted December 2, 2003 Originally posted by redwolf: Nonsense, I was in Hamburg/Germany last month and half of the games shelfes were still filled with games in full-sizes boxes. Note that this makes for much less than half the games for obvious reasons, but CDV's excuse that nobody can sell normal size boxes anymore is nothing more than a lie. Maybe you can sell more, but they claimed "impossible" which can be verified with a single look. Well in the UK the full size box is a thing of the past, you only see them in second-hand stores these days. Retailers prefer the DVD size because they save shelf space and games companies are so desperate to get their games on the shelf that they comply. I guess the switch is permanant and for most games, not a bad thing, I always threw the old boxes away to save space, but I tend to keep the newer ones. Of course if you order direct from BFC you get neither . [ December 02, 2003, 12:09 AM: Message edited by: Firefly ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bardosy Posted December 2, 2003 Share Posted December 2, 2003 Originally posted by Firefly: Of course if you order direct from BFC you get neither . Can a european order direct from BFC? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Posted December 2, 2003 Share Posted December 2, 2003 Originally posted by bardosy: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Firefly: Of course if you order direct from BFC you get neither . Can a european order direct from BFC? </font> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldblood Posted December 9, 2003 Author Share Posted December 9, 2003 Originally posted by Firefly: Well in the UK the full size box is a thing of the past, you only see them in second-hand stores these days.That´s a chame! I really liked the old bloxes, anyway... And then the CD cases fitted into the CD holders, wich they do not with DVD-boxes.... And in the old big boxes you could get old, lovley, enormus MANUALS! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidious Posted December 10, 2003 Share Posted December 10, 2003 Still-at least half the space was always wasted. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldblood Posted December 10, 2003 Author Share Posted December 10, 2003 Erm... Ehe, yeah.... But hey! Haven´t I seen some kind of middle sized boxes? Like to Morrowind? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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