Buy this for you and your girlfriend. It's much better and it's a full fledged experience either in single player or multiplayer.
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Tetris Ultimate has been delisted on all platforms
- Thread starter Lord Arcadio
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Buy this for you and your girlfriend. It's much better and it's a full fledged experience either in single player or multiplayer.
I saw this from a poster on TrueAchivements, if anyone want the Xbox One version, you can still buy it here. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832138516
I did it myself, and got the code after a hour.
I did it myself, and got the code after a hour.
...the fuck?
How do you fuck up Tetris that bad?
It's coloured squares falling!
That's okay. This was the better console Tetris before Puyo Puyo and Tetris Effect came out.
https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/tetris-ps3/
https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/tetris-ps3/
I would love a ps4 port of that tetris despite owning all three ps4 games
People better get Tetris Effect now so they can enjoy it in the future
The OG Game Boy Tetris was on the eShop?!
Dammit weird Tetris Company rules...
In Japan it was released on every possible console of the time, even on the Xbox One despite it being an irrelevant platform over there. When they localized the game they kept it to a very small number of platforms for some reason. You'd think they would want to recoup the development costs for the Xbox One version which probably sold 10 copies in Japan but apparently not.
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Good thing I bought GB Tetris on the 3DS when it was possible. Still have the original cartridge in good condition, but this is nice. If only the GB game Final Fantasy Legend III was available on the 3DS Virtual Console too.
Co-op tetris was a great time. Also a great way to destroy friendships
I will say with pride that PS3 tetris along with when vikings attack and Bomberman 94 were moments of beauty. The PS4 hasn't hit those heights in offline multiplayer fun.
Good riddance, with Tetris DS, Puyo Puyo Tetris and Tetris Effect I've got my Tetris fill for a long time!
Did Sega ever bring the JP audio to the Switch and PS4 versions of Puyo Puyo Tetris in the west? They did on PC. It was weird that they seemingly never bothered bringing that to the other versions as DLC or an update/patch.
Uhhh, is there a risk this happens to Tetris Effect at some point? Because that won't be okay. At all.
This is how the law works. Anything that is produced before the license expires can be sold. New copies (physical or digital) cannot be made after the license expires.
This is why codes are still sold at retail after delisting (those licenses were made before expiration) but new digital copies cannot be generated.
The license of Tetris is the same thing as many others in video game. There's no difference and those also get delisted and have publisher exclusivity or different publishers. Superhero games had it and still have in some ways
I'm in Canada and tried buying a Tetris code on Gamestop.com, but I didn't read the fine print closely enough and the Xbox code was only a $10 USD giftcard to then buy the game. Goofy. PS4 code was able to redeem directly. If anyone wants $10 USD Xbox money:
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9K2HH-YHMJ9-G2HDD-4D24R-HQF2Z
Y'all gonna be doin' this every time a surprisedpikachu.jpg delisting happens?
Well yeah. It absolutely shouldn't happen.
This is precisely why I don't like digital. I don't have control of the thing I bought.
I'm renting it.
Wait I thought the way this worked was you don't get to buy it anymore, but people who had already bought the game still get to download.
So this doesn't have much to do with control over what you bought as much as it does with control over what you can buy at any given moment.
I don't have a PS4 at the moment to check, but I'll try to redownload this tomorrow (bought it years ago)
Delisting only prevents purchasing digitally from that point on, not redownloading. C'mon, for such a meme post you should at least know that beforehand.
I consider this good since i'm still pissed off at Ubisoft being boneheaded and not porting it to Wii U which led to it not ever getting a Tetris game on the system period despite how it made no sense for it not to and we ended up getting shovelware knockoffs like Heptrix instead.
and of course the aforementioned delisting and killing off of the GB VC Tetris game and Axis, but Axis is at least on the 3DS at retail. Speaking of which, it's a good game and you should buy it if you haven't, best Tetris game on the system by far next to the GB one. PS4 has Effect so it's not a loss on there either. Now maybe the Switch will finally get a Tetris game...
and of course the aforementioned delisting and killing off of the GB VC Tetris game and Axis, but Axis is at least on the 3DS at retail. Speaking of which, it's a good game and you should buy it if you haven't, best Tetris game on the system by far next to the GB one. PS4 has Effect so it's not a loss on there either. Now maybe the Switch will finally get a Tetris game...
Thanks, picked it up and got my code. I do also have Puyo Puyo Tetris for Xbox One, but won't hurt having this one for a quick session without looking for the disc =P
doesn't count as it's not a core tetris game and is a crossover leaning more towards the Puyo side. plus Puyo eSports and AGES Puyo serve as the standalone Puyo games which is why I hope we get some sort of Tetris Switch title in the future that's just core tetris.
Kinda worried about the day Puyo Puyo Tetris gets delisted on the Switch eShop since it's the only accessible modern Puyo game right now. Hopefully SEGA localizes another modern game by then.
SEGA AGES Puyo is cool and all but it has old controls and probably won't have good netplay I'm guessing.
SEGA AGES Puyo is cool and all but it has old controls and probably won't have good netplay I'm guessing.
To this day! To this day! I will never let it down on myself either.
Oh man, this game had such a broken online it was hilarious. The game was really good otherwise imho, don't agree with those shitting on the art design or its Tetris music remix. Had the online portion not be broken it would have been an excellent game of Tetris at a competitive price to boot. Too bad it got delisted but I still own it, so I'm not hampered by it.
It seems like GameStop still has the PS4 and Xbox One codes:
https://www.gamestop.com/browse?nav=16k-3-Tetris+ultimate,28zu0
I thought physical copies were made beyond the 3DS and Vita versions?
https://www.gamestop.com/browse?nav=16k-3-Tetris+ultimate,28zu0
I thought physical copies were made beyond the 3DS and Vita versions?
I'm glad online stores don't try to revoke purchased licenses for games just because the publisher's license expires. Have both the GB and Axis games on my 3DS for this, and still go back to the GB one for some time-wasting fun. If Tetris DS was available digitally (have physical copy), oh, boy, that'd be fun!
Tetris, in particular, seems to be hit a lot with this. Guess because it's so popular and iconic that companies pay enough for the license to make it worth it to remove any possible competitors by removing other games that previously had the license. Doesn't do much for the consumer, but company licensing logic is a little above my paygrade. Maybe it's just hard to mess up basic Tetris, so they're fine with the only game available at any moment being the one from the company that last paid them a lot?
Ah okay I understand, very interesting! In my eyes the sale of something digital shouldn't count as a new copy being generated as data can be copied wholesale without losing any resources so we could stop "losing" games digitally atleast.
To be fair, there are a few examples of console manufacturers removing access to delisted paid content. Afro Samurai 2, which was cancelled after just one of three planned episodes, comes to mind (affected users were refunded, to be clear).
They didn't. Console version are single language (English) only. :/
It's because when you issue a new digital copy, you're issuing a new license. And that's what triggers royalty/license payments to others.
Very loose example (these could be modified by license terms):
- 1,000 physical discs made of a licensed game = license costs for 1,000 copies are due to rights holder
- 1,000 digital download codes made of a licensed game = license costs for 1,000 copies are due to rights holder
- Digital downloads sold as one off copies of a licensed game = license costs for the number of copies sold are due to rights holder
It was a hardware product that went into retail production, but was cancelled at the last minute. We had to destroy the hardware that had been made due to license reasons. Third party software was in the ROM. If the company had given any units away to consumers (even if it was just a promo, and not a sale) it would have triggered minimum license payments.
Really, it's about the license moreso than the actual copy of the bits (be those bits pressed on a disc, or bits copied onto a hard drive from a server).
Think of delisting as "no more NEW licenses can be manufactured and sold, only existing licenses can be sold (or resold)."
Ah I understand so it's more of a matter of the license directly vs the law. And knowing publishers or rather license-holders I'm sure they won't be willing to change much of that, it really paints a concerning future seeing how digital slowly takes more hold, seems like we will have a few more "lost" games in the future :/
That was the weirdest thing. Can't think of any other games this gen without a digital version.