Oh, EA! What have you cheeky scamps gone and done now? It would seem you've added a subscription service to a Tetris app of all things. Now why would you go and do something as positively zany as that?
Electronic Arts has released a new version of Tetris for iOS that comes with an optional "T-Club" membership. The membership costs $29.99 per year and will include additional in-game content and faster leveling up for your profile. In addition to such pedestrian goods, subscribers will also earn discounts on future downloadable content.
Yes ... DLC ... for f*cking Tetris. And paying EA money gets you a discount on it. I ... just ... what ... WHAT!?
It's too early in the morning for this, EA. Stop screwing with my brain.
EA releases subscription-supported Tetris [MCV]
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8:00 AM on 12.02.2011 | 
This must be EA's little experiment, to see how else they can steal money from their customers and potentially evolve it into something worse than online/season passes.
I feel dirty knowing that EA owns the Tetris IP.
Why would anyone pay that much money a month for something that sounds like a free update for everyone?...
-Uploading my Tetris videos on Youtube, automatically sharing on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Myspace, Bebo and rotten.com
-Video series with Danny Trejo and Elmo.
-A stats page showing the number of times you've used each Tetrimino.
-Heat maps showing what parts of the screen you've had the most Tetrimino's on.
-Hot tips like "don't just dump the blocks on top of each other, moran."
It was a terrible version anyway.
Wii games have none of these problems. And neither do handheld games.
@sksith
I wonder myself some days...
The Other M "patch" issue requiring you to send your Wii in was worse than any issue I've had with any other system in my life.
Also - http://www.3dsbuzz.com/nintendo-3ds-update-will-cause-ridge-racer-3d-issues/
Also - Nintendo has announced that they are going to toy with DLC. Also, if you're counting the PSP in with "handhelds" (you probably wouldn't, because all you talk about is Nintendo products), there's another heap of issues there.
Nintendo is not immune, and the entire industry is getting worse and worse.
I'm quite proud of this one. The shapes represent the game "Tetris", whilst the baby is EA in its corporate greed with the hand being the consumer feeding it with our currency.
Maybe they'll come up with a new arcade price model that says you buy the game and then pay a quarter every 5 minutes to play.
EA, their stupid Madden franchise grab, their Origin, Prepaid crap disk hidden DLC.
I get that companies wanna make a buck, but damn, gaming was built on a foundation of innocent enjoyment from it's onset. EA has twisted the model so perversely it makes me see red anytime EA is mentioned.
No, I was including psp. And talking about some other m problem(I never heard about this incident) is a tad bit unfair, as it isn't something that occurs regularly and that is the whole point.
The industry is getting worse but Nintendo and most Japanese game developers aren't following so closely behind, and people seem incapable of recognizing this.
You'reprobably right...
...sigh...
~_~
From what I've heard, that wasn't the case. You could send in your stuff to get the Other M bug fixed. It wasn't a long game though and you could avoid the bug (as far as I'm aware), so there wasn't much point to it.
@Welshedderz
Okay, I'm going to bite. What does the unicorn represent?
Nope, you are right. It didn't brick Wiis. It just screwed up the save file. It made you stuck and unable to advance because a door would never open. It forced you to start the game all over again (unskippable cutscenes included), basically, so it wasn't a very nice thing.
Fortunately, it was easily avoided if you knew about it. It had something to do with a saveroom and there was not anything like that in the whole game. I think. I never heard about the solution Nintendo gave, but if you had to send your Wii... that's awful.
Other than that I also recall a Super Paper Mario bug, but it wasn't game breaking and it was just present in the PAL version, so you guys probably wouldn't even knew about it.
Does a guy really need an excuse to put a unicorn in a picture of a toddler with dollar sings in their eyes and surrounded by Tetris pieces?
If so, it's the EA shareholders erected dicks.
@Sean Daisy
Lol!