Why bother with game manuals?

When no one can play your game due to drm servers being down?

Ubisoft announced this week that they will be ditch­ing the trend ofprint­ing instruc­tion man­u­als for new games under the “green”ini­tia­tive.  While no other pub­lish­ers have jumped on that “green”train just yet it is likely that oth­ers will fol­low suit.