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First post, by NoGood

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Poll: Do you prefer cardboard boxes or plastic (dvd) boxes as packaging for games?

  • 8 votes (57%) 8 votes (57%)
  • 4 votes (29%) 4 votes (29%)
  • 2 votes (14%) 2 votes (14%)

You may have read the thread concerning cardboard boxes or plastic (dvd) boxes as packaging material for games. This is the thread. What is your choice?

Cardboard: These boxes are bigger, and most of the time filled with a thick manual, other leaflets, and other gadgets. The cd has its own regular plastic box that will fit in your cd-rack. But, these boxes are more expensive for the producers, and cost wood!

Plastic (dvd-box): These are the smaller boxes you'll probably know from dvd's. They are ecologically well considered, but do not contain a manual, or a very thin one. All the info you need is on the cd. The cd is attached to the dvd-box itself, so you'll need a new cd-box if you want to put it in your rack. This is cheaper for the producers.

What do you chose? Comments and/or arguments are more than welcome!

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Reply 1 of 20, by DosFreak

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No boxes. Just Cd holder that protects CD before I buy it, so I can stick it in my CD case.

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Reply 2 of 20, by [vEX]

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Plastic (DVD-box) since they are cheaper.

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Reply 4 of 20, by Harekiet

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Big fat cardboard boxes, i got a big bookcase filled with em. Dunno just looks a lot nicer looking of your collection if it's all in nice big boxes.

They actually made nice work on those on the older boxes like the nice shiny stonekeep box or the weird shaped fade to black box.

Reply 7 of 20, by Snover

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The best example of this was the Bleem! box. Anyone remember that thing? Twice the size of a "regular" game box, and had NOTHING inside it but a jewel case!

I think I'd prefer seeing a whole line of DVD cases on a bookshelf. Anyone that keeps their boxes doesn't have enough software (or has an extremely long shelf 😉). Go buy more software! The BSA demands it! Save the economy! If you don't buy software you are a pirate!! 😉;)

I'm confused though. Two people have said DVD cases, but only one voted for it? (There are two now because I voted for DVD case.)

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Reply 8 of 20, by [vEX]

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I voted for Plastic cases (DVD) so don't look at me 😜

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Reply 9 of 20, by Nicht Sehr Gut

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Originally posted by Harekiet i got a big bookcase filled with em. Dunno just looks a lot nicer looking of your collection if it's all in nice big boxes.

I must admit that I'm also fond of this. Hoping to build a library to look like the one from the animated "Beauty and the Beast" (except with software instead of books...mostly).

Reply 10 of 20, by Nicht Sehr Gut

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Originally posted by Snover 🤣@SkidAnyone that keeps their boxes doesn't have enough software (or has an extremely long shelf

..or they completely filled their shelves, major portions of 2 closets and a large number scattered about to the point of becoming a potential fire hazard.

Reply 12 of 20, by DosFreak

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I'd take my easily stolen Caselogic CD Cases over your crappy boxes any day! 😜

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Reply 13 of 20, by Snover

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heh...
That's something I've never really thought about. Those four cases are more valuable than my actual computer. Perhaps I should think about putting tracking devices in them?
Then again, I imagine that a robber won't be going into the basement of my house to find four black cases shoved under a black desk next to a black subwoofer 😀

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Reply 16 of 20, by [vEX]

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Snover: What was your address again ? 😜

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Reply 19 of 20, by dud716

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It's really a choice, whether or not you prefer trees or oil. Most game boxes are made from recycled paper. DVD boxes, on the other hand, are made from plastic, some recycled, some not, in either case they are made from petroleum products (oil).

You can always grow more trees, you can't grow more oil!
Besides, who want's to give more money to the oil barons!!

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