Lesson learned, thank you Mr. Grey.
And it's very nice of you to post that review in question right here.

You put me in a difficult situation here: now I have to minus rep the OP and I dislike doing it, but I hate liars so much that there is no other choice but to punish a person for making me doubt GOG, how sad... Care to explain this please?!?

To say something in honor of the OP - there is a bias here. There is a bias here that negative reviews which are not really reviews and are not helpful are voted down and spoken ill of while positive reviews which are not really reviews and are not helpful either are voted up as helpful even if they aren't. It is indeed as pointed out first by user R8V9F5A2 partly a popularity contest. People who love a game will just find anything about it useful even if it is rather uninformative.

As an example look at the top most helpful review of System Shock: Enhanced Edition. Currently 102 out of 109 people find it helpful which probably translates to very helpful, so you would expect lots of information about the game itself but you won't find much if anything at all, just a general positive sentiment in exactly the same way the review of the OP expressed a general negative sentiment, only with more words. In short: Reviews here on GOG really are partly Popularity Contests.

For completeness the review I'm referring to:

"LL-l-l-look at you hh-hacker! You're getting yet another chance to go against a perfect, immortal machine. Oh damn. I'm so glad GOG finally did it (presumably, also kudos on sorting out the rights, Night Dive!). This Sci-Fi / Cyberpunk successor to Ultima Underworld is IMO one of the best things that ever happened to gaming.
The game's creators managed to bring to life an environment so life-like by contemporary standards, that playing the game I felt immersed completely. All the emotions were genuine. Awe, disgust, curiosity, and fear. Mostly fear...
I was invested in this game to the point of looking for a safe spot and making my character lie down on some comfortable surface and letting him play a few games on his PDA thingie, before I would "put him to sleep" before turning off the game.
After all these years I remember System Shock to be a near-perfect computer gaming experienced, only flawed by non-intuitive control scheme. Since this isn't mostly a problem anymore in the enhanced edition (mouselook FTW!), there are few games or none I could recommend more!"

Why this is rather not so helpful and should not be upvoted so much:

- "I'm so glad GOG finally did it ..." - Has nothing to do with the game itself and doesn't say anything about the game but rather something about the reviewer.
- "This [...] is IMO one of the best things that ever happened to gaming." - Just a general sentiment of approval, tells you nothing about the game.
- "The game's creators managed to bring to life an environment so life-like by contemporary standards, that playing the game I felt immersed completely" - The central tiny bit of information of the review. Immersion is supposedly very high. Okay.
- "I was invested in this game to the point of [...]." - Is just an iteration of the same thing which prolongs the review but does not add much information.
- "After all these years I remember System Shock to be a near-perfect computer gaming experienced..." - Again a general sentiment of approval (in case the reader didn't get it yet)
- "...only flawed by non-intuitive control scheme. Since this isn't mostly a problem anymore in the enhanced edition ..." - Well this is actually some information for those who are used to the non-intuitive control scheme of the original.

So if you would condense the review to the information that is contained it would sound like:

"I love this game. I think it's really good. I like the immersion. Controls have been improved."

This is somewhat useful but 102 out of 109?

Would a review sounding like:

"I don't like this game. I think it's bad. I don't like the immersion. Controls have been improved."

get the same number of usefulness votes? I guess not.

Because there is a bias and a quiet understanding that a popularity contest is included in the voting.

I don't mean to say about anyone personally. It's just what happens.

You forgot to mention Ultima Underworld comparison mention. Sci-Fi / Cyberpunk genre indication. Great level of immersion into game universe. An option to play in-game mini games on PDA. And not only *controls have been improved" but Mouselook for the win!

Anyway I agree that this review is mediocre. But you were talking about common sense. Most people don't have it, they are emotionally charged bubbles of meat and water (now I'm talking like SHODAN damn). If most people like something that much it's automatically considered good. That's why we have Call of Duty 7 and not System Shock 3. Hope you get my point.

I don't see the need in posting a review about the ratio of price/age/size.
I mean....you can see all those information at the game site, why lamenting about them "after" you bought the game?
As I read this thread, there was nothing said about the quaility of the game and how good or bad the GOG release is.
And that are the only informations interesting for me. As I wrote many time before, I don't read any customer reviews,
because most of them lack these informations.
There are only one type of "reviews" I hate even more.....those poping up a short time after release.
About what could they tell us? Playing for what ...10 or 20 minutes and you know a game? Maybe possible for an
action game, but not for any RPG/adventure or strategie game. And especially not if they are older...aka without the "helpfull" hand new releases are providing.
For example my first impression of Fallout was not very good and it took me some hours reading the manuel to finaly
find my way into the game.

I don't think that GOG deletes negative reviews. But deleting useless reviews....they have done that if I remember
correctly the very high count of reviews for...Jack Keen...albeit some of them were fine work of art :-)

Is it me, or do I smell a "yo dawg" in the making here? GOG should add a special review section so we can review all the reviews!

I remember the review. I admit I was one downvoting it because it did not reviewd the game but the pricing & size (I guess you don't give glowing 5 star rewievs to a really sucky game just because its cheap & has 50GB size?).

With that said I agree that its bad that the review itself is gone but the rating still stands (if thats what it is). If the rating is still there everybody should see the review to it & judge for themself the sanity of the rating.

... it isn't. It's still right there on the game page, and for all we know it was never gone. I posted a copy of the "review" right here in this thread, a few posts earlier.

Review sections are always terrible. You're better off going elsewhere to sites like MobyGames or Hardcore Games 101, or just watching a YouTube video.

People have said in the past you should have to own the game on GOG to review it, maybe that would cut down on the crap.

Thanks for reviving this thread! Quality stuff.

So you are practically saying that GOG removed your game review and after some consideration (or maybe even because of this thread) put it back with no official statement, right?
Still a serious claim. Do you have any proof?

Yes. A video recording.

Big difference between thinking complaining about prices is worthy of being a forum post and thinking complaining about prices constitutes a review.

PROOF!!!

Yes let me answer your SARCASTIC response as well a the SARCASTIC response from Telika.

As if i sit with video camera and record reviews.

Yes look page 1 of this post, you will see people who did see it and did notice it gone, that is proof enough of others that did see this.

"I remember your review and it's indeed missing now. I wonder if reviews work like threads; if many people report them, then they get deleted.
Post edited September 24, 2015 by Grargar"

"I noticed both reviews and noticed both are gone. They were horrible reviews and shouldn't be on the site.
Post edited September 24, 2015 by budejovice"

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"Huh, I don't think his and Serious_San's reviews were there yesterday.

Maybe they were auto deleted as spam, staffer saw this thread and restored them today?"

and so on and so on.

So why don't you 2 bashers just FKOFF.

My initial question on this post was about reviews disappearing, you still do not get the point do you.

At least there were people who gave constructive critisism based on my post. The rest can just go **** themselves. Your all missing the point of initial question.

AND I STATE AGAIN, PRICE IS ALSO PART OF A REVIEW.