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Fever_Discordia: Why does it have to? You are making a purchase, why shouldn't you be informed where your money is going?
The review is about the product and nothing else. Is it really that difficult to understand? If people don't want to buy the game to support the people that made it, they're certainly within their rights to do so, but they should use the review system what it was meant for. If their reviews are deleted because they couldn't do that, it's their own fault.
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Fever_Discordia: Or maybe I'm just a diehard woke old leftie who still watches Jim-Steph Sterling and Bob "MovieBob" Chipman?
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DoomSooth: I don't know who those people are. Did they make any games?
MovieBob is the Super Mario Bros 3-worshipping giga-incel who deludes himself into thinking that his unreasonable bigotry against Trump and fallowers thereof makes him not the Nazi, despite constantly tweeting Nazi rhetoric except with right-wingers in place of Jews. Before all this self-destruction, he reviewed movies on The Escapist. Edit: And has been fired from them twice.

Jim Sterling had an gaming-themed opinion show also previously on the Escapist; his self-destruction amounts to lingering on a few subjects with inconsistent reliability. One week, he's decrying the extremely sub-optimal working conditions for game developers; but he'll just as often whine about difficulty levels in a way that correctly states choice is ideal and falsely suggests it's a package deal with disability accommodation. Jim also claims in his podcast about game-based movies that Angry Birds is bad because pigs represent illegal immigrants and the birds are MAGA; obviously, the pigs are imperialists, birds are indigenous, he and I can agree the movie sucks, and Jim is a half-wit.
Post edited May 11, 2023 by LegoDnD
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LegoDnD: [...]
You are aware that your post just broke the forum rules?
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octalot:
Yup!

"Game was sadly unplayable on my lower end [specifics here] even though it seems to meet the requirements."

Is a valid thing for potential buyers.

HOW its worded, well...
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Braggadar: In the past support staff would do it, so it's at least possible. The question is whether they're still willing.
Or if they have time while they tape together the chatbot.
Post edited May 11, 2023 by Sachys
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DoomSooth: The review is about the product and nothing else. Is it really that difficult to understand? If people don't want to buy the game to support the people that made it, they're certainly within their rights to do so, but they should use the review system what it was meant for.
Well said

Me? I think almost the same: a review(game/etc) should focus mainly on the product's qualities/flaws/etc.....with maybe a tiny bit of talk(if needed) about the devs/pub/etc and their high/low points
Post edited May 11, 2023 by GamezRanker
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Fever_Discordia: Why does it have to? You are making a purchase, why shouldn't you be informed where your money is going?
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DoomSooth: The review is about the product and nothing else. Is it really that difficult to understand? If people don't want to buy the game to support the people that made it, they're certainly within their rights to do so, but they should use the review system what it was meant for. If their reviews are deleted because they couldn't do that, it's their own fault.
Oh to be fair, I'm not an exhaustive reader of Ts & Cs - if the reviews are on GOG's own site they can set whatever rules and boundaries they want for them and delete any that overstep that, I guess

Not super cool of them though and always a reminder that it's important to use a variety of sources for your purchasing decisions and not just base them on what it says on the site that wants your money, even the user generated content on there
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lupineshadow: And which reviews exactly?
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: I'm not sure what reviews OP is talking about, but GOG has definitely deleted legit but unflattering reviews before, with "Lust From Beyond: M Edition" being the most infamous example of a mass review deletion spree.
I assume most of these deleted reviews were about the fact that GOG never received the uncensored version? If that'S the fact they definitely had no right to delete those since it is a very important information as well amnd it helps the custo,mer making an informed purchase decision which is what a review should do.
I saw a crass and terse review of a game that was actually helpful to me. It's since been deleted.
As far as reviews go, one has to sift out the "wheat" from the "chaff." Sometimes the reviews here on a particular program are rather "thin soup." Ste*m, despite its (many)other flaws, does often have quite a number of comprehensive reviews, which can be quite useful in making a purchase decision, on GOG, natch!((;--))
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neumi5694: They comments get deleted when the writer gets personal and insulting. You can give a negative review if you stay polite and don't spread lies. The latter is not always detected.
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BrianSim: Sometimes they do. Someone took a screenshot of the deleted Blade Runner reviews though and many of them that were deleted were not "abusive" or "insulting", they were deleted for bringing "unwelcome honesty" and calling out a bad remaster for what it is. The fact NightDive were forced to go back and re-release the original they "bait & switched out" then (partially) redo the 'enhanced' edition and the fact Steam reviews are still at "Mixed" with plenty of (non-deleted) similarly critical reviews still up and that even the gaming media called it a disaster should be a 'red flag' that someone went overboard here with setting the "DEL" key on "Autofire" mode against entirely accurate, truthful and non-abusive reviews...

Edit: After 7 years of development hell and comments by the CEO like "we went a different direction with the writing after we restarted the project", I'm hoping for the best (but preparing for the worst) with the upcoming System Shock (2023). It will be interesting to see what 'someone dared to criticise NightDive' reviews go "missing" and why if they mess that up too...
WOW! GOG deleted ALL those reviews because they criticize games. What an outrage!!!