I've noticed some really flimsy packaging with some of the games I've bought lately. Here is a video to show more:
I seriously thought the package to Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 was broken when I grabbed it out of my mail box. These new packages just feel really cheap.
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Oct 27 2009 08:33 pm
my theory?
oil is expensive now, you need oil to make plastic, so they are cheaping on the plastic in the cases. that's why action figures are mostly GI joe sized now.
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Oct 27 2009 09:26 pm
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It's for cutting back and conserving, recycling etc I don't get what the big deal is, however I will say the potential to damage the disc is increased.
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Oct 27 2009 10:48 pm
Berserk007 wrote:
It's for cutting back and conserving, recycling etc I don't get what the big deal is, however I will say the potential to damage the disc is increased.
That is another reason I don't like this. Something can easily pierce through the sleeve and hit the disc
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Oct 27 2009 11:09 pm
They ought to go to metal or cardboard...you know...something renewable. Since plastic can't be reused, it's a waste to produce so much.
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Oct 27 2009 11:35 pm
no more cardboard. remember the days of the genesis boxes being cardboard instead of plastic?
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Oct 28 2009 12:06 am
FNJ wrote:
no more cardboard. remember the days of the genesis boxes being cardboard instead of plastic?
I do. I pretty much threw the cardboard boxes away, thinking they were disposable like the SNES ones.
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Oct 28 2009 12:38 am
joke's on us collectors now, right?
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Oct 28 2009 12:46 am
Not a cardboard box, more like some of the newer cardboard DVD cases with a small plastic holder inside, such as "There Will Be Blood".
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Oct 28 2009 12:48 am
i personally dont care about the packaging, as long as the game works when i get it, im fine. im not a pack rat, but im also not a dirty fucker, so i know my games will stay safe when i receive them.
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Oct 28 2009 12:53 am
I was going to go into a semi rant about physical and non physical game media but meh. Quick fix, (if you don't mind going without the slime green of the 360 case) is just to swap it with some crap DVD case you own, you shouldn't have to do this having already flipped the bill for the game, but it fixes the problem.
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Oct 28 2009 01:30 am
FNJ wrote:
joke's on us collectors now, right?
I guess.
At least I still have all of the plastic cases for my Sega games.
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Oct 28 2009 09:04 am
So what it is not a SEGA saturn, get over it.
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Oct 28 2009 04:41 pm
Berserk007 wrote:
I was going to go into a semi rant about physical and non physical game media but meh. Quick fix, (if you don't mind going without the slime green of the 360 case) is just to swap it with some crap DVD case you own, you shouldn't have to do this having already flipped the bill for the game, but it fixes the problem.
fuck that, I want myu green cases to be green.
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Oct 28 2009 04:47 pm
Goddamn purists lol
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Oct 28 2009 05:18 pm
I'm not a collector and never was, so I don't give a shit about the packaging. Long as the game works, I'm good.
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Oct 28 2009 06:14 pm
Berserk007 wrote:
Goddamn purists lol
Wow, I think I'm stretching out the word "purist." I tend to think of them simply as people who prefer to play the games on the cartridges rather than download them in emulators.
Ice2SeeYou wrote:
I'm not a collector and never was, so I don't give a shit about the packaging. Long as the game works, I'm good.
Amen to that, brother. I only need the game to work before I buy it.
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Oct 28 2009 10:01 pm
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Goddamn purists lol
so I'm a purist just because my obsessive compulsive disorder won't let me have my cases not all be the same color? how does that work?
I also don't see how purism involves not wanting a bunch of discs with no cases all over the place.
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Oct 28 2009 10:30 pm
IceWarm wrote:
Berserk007 wrote:
It's for cutting back and conserving, recycling etc I don't get what the big deal is, however I will say the potential to damage the disc is increased.
That is another reason I don't like this. Something can easily pierce through the sleeve and hit the disc
That is what bothered me as well. I was thinking, if they used a design like this:
then the disc would be protected and it would use even less plastic. Even if they do that they should use thin cardboard to back-up the protection for the open spaces.
Jesus.... take the anal beads out and take a fucking joke. Saying" purists" was a friendly rib..
Jackfrost, I agree that design would have made a hell of a lot more sense (a single cross support would have worked as well if they wanted more cut out), I am not sure what the designer was thinking , unless it is a symbol for something I am unaware of and they wanted it from the get go.
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Oct 30 2009 03:19 am
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Oct 30 2009 09:30 am
Touché lol
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Oct 30 2009 08:35 pm
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Oct 31 2009 03:25 am
Doddsino wrote:
Not a cardboard box, more like some of the newer cardboard DVD cases with a small plastic holder inside, such as "There Will Be Blood".
Yeah, have you seen the cardboard cases the Futurama movies came in? They get completely compressed and smashed all to hell if you've got them on a shelf with all the other plastic dvd cases.
