Is it still worth buying sealed Steelbooks?

[sinanspd]

Originally Posted by Twisted

I honestly think that Scanavo deliberately uses lower quality standards..they can easily coat the steelbooks i would think!!???...with some type of scratch resistant clear coating!!???..but it appears as if they choose to pinch pennies instead!..also they can very easily up the ante on the metal size..maybe a hair or two thicker like by 1-2 mm which would make it harder to dent..that is what "MetalPak" does...but again, they meaning SCANAVO probably wants to spend as little as possible!!???.. on the manufacturing side in order to "max out" on potential profits.

100%. I spoke to Gamesonly a while back. They were telling me Scanavo charges 5cent per steelbook just to shrink wrap them and as a result 20% of their steelbooks come scratched.

Worse is, when I talked to Scanavo about this, their response was "well we always assume damages steelbooks won't be sold..."

[Spect3r]

Originally Posted by Twisted

I honestly think that Scanavo deliberately uses lower quality standards..they can easily coat the steelbooks i would think!!???...with some type of scratch resistant clear coating!!???..but it appears as if they choose to pinch pennies instead!..also they can very easily up the ante on the metal size..maybe a hair or two thicker like by 1-2 mm which would make it harder to dent..that is what "MetalPak" does...but again, they meaning SCANAVO probably wants to spend as little as possible!!???.. on the manufacturing side in order to "max out" on potential profits.

There is also the fact that they do use different metal sheet measures/weights in the steelbooks.
GEO steelbooks are 30g heavier than average, while FIFA steelbooks are 15g lighter than average

Originally Posted by sinanspd

Worse is, when I talked to Scanavo about this, their response was "well we always assume damages steelbooks won't be sold..."

Are they retarded or something? WTF?

[Twisted]

That’s very fascinating to hear as a Steelbook collector that there are varying weights and mass size to the steelbooks..i had no idea!..I just thought it was like a “cookie cutter” assembly of steelbooks with all of them weighing in identical!

[Spect3r]

Originally Posted by Twisted

That’s very fascinating to hear as a Steelbook collector that there are varying weights and mass size to the steelbooks..i had no idea!..I just thought it was like a “cookie cutter” assembly of steelbooks with all of them weighing in identical!

I first noticed with the Fate/Extella Link GEO steelbook, it seemed way heavier than the others, so i got a digital scale and weighted a few steelbooks.
Every GEO i checked was heavier than the average and the 2 FIFA i checked were both lighter.