Dear Future Gamer

Why in the name of Fishburn are PC boxes so ridiculously large when they always contain a smaller and friendlier CD box inside? The stupid big box always gets tossed aside - you can't even put them on a shelf as they're all different sizes and it looks untidy. I could understand it in the old days when games came on a ton of floppy disks with a fat manual, but now manuals are always on the game CD in a readme or Acrobat file.

I've only been buying PC games for the past six months and was astonished to open Red Alert and Duke Nukem to find only a tiny CD case and a load of plastic holding it in place. It's nothing like my PlayStation where the CD case is all you get and need. And they look great in a rack.

Come on game publishers, ditch the stupid wasteful boxes. It's nearly the 21st century, the rainforest is hardly in great shape and we don't need no steeking boxes cluttering up our lofts. Do you think we say, "Wow! Look at the size of that box, you could live in that so the game must be ace!"? We buy games on the strength of their reviews, not the box size, so give us PlayStation-style standard size boxes. Don't be scared - if the games any good you won't lose a single sale, so take a chance you ginger fools. Stop patronising.

Joe

FG: Well said, Joe. PlayStation games are fine as they are and yes, they do think the bigger the PC game box, the better you'll think the game is. Dumb, isn't it? Yet they're too scared of missing any chance of being in a prominent position on the shelf in the local software shop for them to risk using anything like a sensibly sized box.