New "Eco-friendly" game casing doing the rounds?


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Looks pretty fail :( Dust and dirt is sure to get inside more easily.

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Seems Blu Rays are doing it as well, hopefully doesn't come to PS3 games, it'll make inside covers look stupid if they have a huge recycling icon over them :/

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If it works, it works. *shrug* I highly doubt making holes in the plastic will make much difference though.

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Better yet : Buy & download them*, and save even MORE on packaging! :D

* Legally, of course.

Well those are 360 cases above, not PC :p

On that note though, we should return to the days of massive boxes and 400 page colour manuals....

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would that mean you could walk around and poke holes in the back of cases to ruin the cd?

They still have the plastic outer cover, but essentially yeah you could push holes through with a sharpish object... why you'd want to do that though :huh:

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I recently bought some DVDs that have this style of case (with the giant recycling logo on the front side). I like the fact that it's less material, but it really doesn't provide any protection for the disc.

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my copy of modern warfare 2 looks like this, so i opened it up and see that in the center of the plastic it says "eco-box".

feels a little flimsy, but its there to hold/protect the game and it seems to be doing its job just fine.

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lol the wholes might just reduce the material used but its not a big impact, why dont they use recycled material and use less of it.

the plastic is thinner and theres gapes in the case where plastic isn't needed, these enviro cases probably end up using half the plastic as a normal case, and when your using this with games like COD that sold more than 2 million copies, it makes a HUGE difference.

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I recently bought some DVDs that have this style of case (with the giant recycling logo on the front side). I like the fact that it's less material, but it really doesn't provide any protection for the disc.

Yeah, same here. I forget what movie it was now, but it felt flimsy in my hand... Not to mention you could poke something right through those holes. I'm all for less waste and stuff, but the case still takes up just as much space in a landfill... There's really no true benefit.

The real answer is to recycle and throw away less... I'm not really sure why that's so hard... They had on tv the other night that Americans (Of which I am one) throw away 40% of our food... I found that figure appalling... We need to fix stuff like that.

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and when your using this with games like COD that sold more than 2 million copies, it makes a HUGE difference.

Not [infinity + 1] as much as supporting the construction of new nuclear plants though, but then again were expected to change our entire lifestyles yet the environmentalists wont even change their viewpoint on nuclear power.

Tiny bit hypocritical there :rolleyes:

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i thought what they looked like has no effect on how eco friendly they are? unless of course, they put the spokes there to cut down on the plastic... i agree the recycling icon is abit over the top, i would have preferred the more ultilitarian look of the simple spokes

i dont think poking and scratching disks, and dust falling in, would be a problem since the outside shell stays the same, its only the insides which have changed?

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Looks like crap!

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/105/1050097p1.html

Despite a more flimsy and less-protective look, Sheppard says the new packaging was fully tested by Microsoft prior to approval, adding there is "no real difference in quality or performance compared to the standard (non-Eco) package."

:laugh:

Screw this eco crap for cases! Protect the games!

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While Blu-Ray and PS3 cases are smaller they still use a lot of plastic and XBOX360 cases just waste plastic and space despite the holes they placed in them. What they truly need to do is switch from petroleum-based plastics which they currently use to bioplastics (renewable sources ie corn). While yes bioplastics are degradable, they can be tainted a certain colour and a biofilm can be added that prevents degredation. Therefore creating an environmentally friendly plastic that is as strong as PVC.

They can remove as much plastic as they want, ie creating holes, but the real solution is to make the switch. I guess its more of a visual solution rather than a logical solution (ie fixing the mouldy drywall with plaster rather than replacing the drywall).

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It saves plastic, certainly a welcome change. This weird mentality "Oh it's ugly" what's up with that?

You aren't playing the case itself nor should you spend more than 5 seconds looking inside of it,

unless you are mentally challenged. Such a daft thing to bitch about.

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Better yet : Buy & download them*, and save even MORE on packaging! :D

* Legally, of course.

+1

To be honest, I don't care too much what cases look like as I am more interested in the game. I don't think using up a bit less plastic in the case will make a big difference .. it seems a rather pathetic "we don't really want to change" approach just to .. I don't know, appease some government target?

It's a bit like using your car 5% less when really it would be better to switch to cleaner fuels and public transport. Or eating slightly less meat when it would be better to really cut down and get cows eating food that produces less methane..

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Not [infinity + 1] as much as supporting the construction of new nuclear plants though, but then again were expected to change our entire lifestyles yet the environmentalists wont even change their viewpoint on nuclear power.

Tiny bit hypocritical there :rolleyes:

huh?

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The people who'll benefit most from this are the publishers, they'll save a couple of cents/pennies or whatever on each disc, but still sell everything at the same cost.

You're kidding yourself if you think this is really helping the environment, they're still using plastic, the plastic production lines that create the cases are still in use, etc etc.

Change to try and be more eco-friendly is always welcomed, but this method looks a bit careless to me, just cutting chunks out of the plastic when you have a disc to protect.

As someone else said MS could use smaller cases, but cosmetically that would look different on the shelf from your old 360 games, but then again cosmetics can't matter that much when they're punching holes out your case.

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They still have the plastic outer cover, but essentially yeah you could push holes through with a sharpish object... why you'd want to do that though :huh:

Of course WE wouldn't want to do that, but I'm sure you can imagine chavs going into game stores and destroying discs this way just for fun or something to do.

However, I'm thinking it shouldn't be too much of a problem since most of us keep our games in drawers or other protected locations where they're back-to-back, so nothing really can get at them from the proper angle to do damage, and stores usually keep them behind the counter anyway.

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These new 'Eco-friendly' cases will not make much of a difference for the environment.

The Blu-ray ones especially don't appeal to me.

As it has been pointed out, this will surely mean less protection for the content.

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