13th March 2011, 4:31 PM
That said, I don't keep any of my games in card board boxes. My old boxes are all stored on their own, since everything in those cardboard boxes are basically all loose and not really easy to stack and actually use regularly. On the other hand I do store all games that use plastic cases in those cases, since those are a lot easier to stack, open, and the games and documents are fixed within them one way or another far more securely.
I'm very utilitarian. Durability is a lot more important to me than any concept of a better "looking" case. Transparency is neat, but it isn't worth it at all to have that at the expense of that sort of fragility. At any rate, most jewel cases have their transparency made moot by the paper inserts blocking the view of the disk anyway. At that point, it really makes no difference to me. I will at least say this. MS's green color choice for their XBox game cases does look a little silly.
I'm very utilitarian. Durability is a lot more important to me than any concept of a better "looking" case. Transparency is neat, but it isn't worth it at all to have that at the expense of that sort of fragility. At any rate, most jewel cases have their transparency made moot by the paper inserts blocking the view of the disk anyway. At that point, it really makes no difference to me. I will at least say this. MS's green color choice for their XBox game cases does look a little silly.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)