Tetris® Forever

It would appear that Digital Eclipse fanboys have reported my reviews on this product page. It would seem these people are perfectly content to have their products missing updates on the GOG store, and any - legitimate - criticism of their beloved developer is too much for them to bear. These reviews, however, are relevant in the sense that the developer, Digital Eclipse, has a historical pattern of abandoning updates of its products - including this very title, ‘Tetris Forever’. Relevant review on this product: '- On Feb 27, Digital Eclipse’ game ‘Tetris Forever’ had its "biggest-ever update" released on other platforms. This update includes the 1991 "cult classic" Super Tetris and the 1988 title Tetris (AcademySoft) v. 3.12. GOG users are still waiting for this update.' The GOG support team, whose ‘support’ is non-existent with regards to responding to support requests I have sent months ago on the lack of updates of Digital Eclipse’ products on GOG, acts to remove critical reviews - which criticise pertinent aspects of a game - such as updates - of products on their store. Again, this shows how out of touch GOG are with gamers' needs in the modern digital marketplace, where, through these actions of removing critical reviews of products lacking important updates, simply compounds this long-running issue of missing updates on the GOG platform. In other words, GOG are content to bury their heads in the sand on this issue. An entire forum on GOG exists on this issue exists: 'Games that treat GOG customers as second class citizens v2. Updates are important to gamers. This removal of critical reviews, which follow GOG's own reviewing guidelines, demonstrates that GOG’s so-called ‘customer-first’ policy is nothing but a pretense and their only interest is in keeping the sales going, even though this means customers being sold incomplete products. GOG simply doesn’t care.

GOG have removed the previous reviews, regarding highlighting missing content / updates for 'Tetris Forever'. One of these reviews mentions a history of missing updates / DLC on GOG. Instead of removing this particular review, GOG removed all of the reviews critical of updates from Digital Eclipse, including this: 'On Feb 27, Digital Eclipse’ game ‘Tetris Forever’ had its "biggest-ever update" released on other platforms. This update includes the 1991 "cult classic" Super Tetris and the 1988 title Tetris (AcademySoft) v. 3.12. GOG users are still waiting for this update.' This was an informative and helpful review (and was upvoted as such)- adhering to GOG's 'critique responsibly' guideline - in that it is highlighting a significant update and content experience for this game, which GOG users have still not received. This review also follows GOG's review guidelines, in that it is critiquing the 'in-game experience'. The above mentioned titles, are games. So, for this product to be lacking these two versions of Tetris, affects the in-game experience, as this title is meant to capture the games featured in Tetris' history. To highlight GOG's inconsistency in removing reviews, check out the reviews below left standing, titled: - 'the most important titles are missing.' - discusses missing content. The same as my removed review. - 'Woha nice but way too expensive' - considered 'noise' by GOG's review guidelines, as this discusses the price. Why were my reviews removed? It seems because they specifically mention a history of missing updates / DLC on GOG, which appears to be a sore point for GOG. The GOG store has a long history of missing updates / DLC.

Thanks to the reviewers who pointed out Digital Eclipse's scummy tactic of releasing a product to GOG and then immediately abandoning it (while the product receives updates on other platforms), I will never, ever purchase any product from Digital Eclipse, on any platform. There were a bunch of games that I would've considered buying with the sale going on at the time of this review, but I've decided against all of them. I buy games on GOG because they're DRM free and because they're maintained. I will not support scammers like Digital Eclipse.

Since updates and missing content, like 'games', such as the above two versions of Tetris missing on the GOG store, are apparently not considered by GOG as an 'in-game experience' worth mentioning in a review - in a title that looks at the history of Tetris, Since GOG apparently doesn't see updates / missing content (games) as important to gamers, GOG’s review guidelines state that we are not to discuss topics such as ‘news’ (i.e. updates which are on other platforms, but not on the GOG version) in our reviews. Instead, these issues are to be discussed on the forums. Why? - so that these topics are conveniently ushered away on some corner of a forum? Who, on the store product page is more likely to look at the reviews, than search through pages of forums to find out about pertinent issues regarding their game - before making a purchasing choice? They shouldn't have to find out about these important issues on a forum. These are important and pertinent issues concerning the product GOG have sold us on their store. Key updates and DLC can add significantly to the experience of a game. Is the purpose of a review to provide helpful, relevant information, so customers can make informed choices? Or are they only to discuss the gamey aspects, to ‘sell’ the product? Where is GOG’s much vaunted ‘Gamers-first approach’ here? Nope. GOG doesn't want to talk about problems. Not when these long-running issues of missing updates / DLC on the GOG store negatively affect sales, and with GOG.com taking 30% of the sale, we don’t want to talk about that. GOG’s review policy essentially states that reviews are to be curtailed, or if they deviate from the guidelines, removed. A form of censorship. This wouldn't be the first time (the 'Devotion' debacle). Anyway, let's see that all-encompassing 'important' gamey experience below: the timeline shows versions of tetris for the dreamcast and other consoles but wont let you play them. there is no online multiplayer