Publishers considering reverting back to Cardboard boxes for games?

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Source said:
Switching to cardboard packaging would be like taking almost 4,000 cars off the road in terms of equivalent green house gas emissions.
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Could we see a return of these:

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As a collector, I prefer big cardboard boxes. Often encourages great artwork and it allways felt good opening a game which came in a mahoosive box be it on the Spectrum, Amiga or PC.
 
Except they won't be like the boxes of old, they'll probably either be the same size of or a bit smaller than the plastic cases they use now.
 
From what I can tell by browsing, the American market does not use the DVD Style casing like ourselves.. they tend to still have boxes and sleeves. Much better in my opinion.
 
I prefer the DVD boxes, while carboard boxes look nicer, they just get lost, take more space and are more fragile.

For example, I only have the AOE1 and AOE: RoR cd's, not even the original cases.
Of AOE2 I only have the original Jewell, the bookie and the cd...

While of the DVD boxes, I still have my games complete, knights and merchants the peasants rebellion, age of mythology, bf1942, etc...
 
snowdog said:
How do you want to sell on steam games, unless you want to create a new account for every game ?
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When I actually buy a game which is rather rare these days (except for multiplayer titles) I usually make sure it's one I'm not gonna mind being stuck with.

So for me, Steam is the future.
 
I much prefer DVD cases. They don't get damaged easily, they usually always match (card boxes can often be of various sizes) and they're easy to store in racks etc.
 
All the games that are available on steam can be added to it using the CD key from the boxed copy

That's what I've done, that way I never ever use the game itself but still have it physically :)
 
Gimpymoo said:
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It's not going to be like the big cardboard boxes of old. It'll be more like the picture above.

Personally I couldn't care less what they use as long as it's sturdy and protects the game.

And the day we switch to Steam-like delivery systems only is the day I sell my PC and game exclusively on consoles.
 
Strife212 said:
All the games that are available on steam can be added to it using the CD key from the boxed copy

That's what I've done, that way I never ever use the game itself but still have it physically :)
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I bought a boxed copy of HL2 and activated it on steam. About a year and a half ago my account got stolen and disabled. So now I have a physical copy of the game, but I didn't have the ability to actually play the game. I do now because I bought the orange box, but I still don't have CSS which did come with the boxed copy that I bought. So basically I have a HL2 disc which is completely and utterly useless.
 
Please please noooooo!

I'd hate to see the return of the old boxes, I never wanted to throw them out and they to up to much damn room.

But yeah steam is the future, or a range of software delivery services at least.
 
Taking 4,000 cars off the road would only reduce the CO2 emissions from cars by 0.007%. Hardly going to change anything.

I'll stick with the DVD cases thanks.
 
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