#GOG has always been my number one #gaming platform. Heck, my profile picture was literally GOG-chan for a couple years on every space I was contributing to.
Seeing this new non-excuse for their Nazi email header has me pulling back from them. I'm not sure how much I can blame on the new ownership after CDPR sold it, but things like a Patreon, A.I. art replacing human artists and now literal Nazi shit? Nope. Done with that one.
I'm done.
Such a disappointment
Funny how they didn't share those same icons with their German customers. Because it is illegal to do so there
They're using A.I. for a lot of things there, it is mostly automated but ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด
They said so themselves
๐ ๐ข๐ญ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐จ๐ฏ๐ช๐ป๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ธ๐ฐ ๐ด๐ถ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐น๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ถ๐ฏ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐ข๐ด๐ด๐ฐ๐ค๐ช๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ด๐บ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ด ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ป๐ช ๐ณ๐ฆ๐จ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ. ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ค๐ข๐ญ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ข๐ญ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐บ
I guess it was checked by eyeballs? So they knew it wasn't right for Germany, but rather than pressing the backspace even once, at the least, they sent it everywhere else
@flwwhtrbt @Alex0007 They also chose to do two specifically of one specific emoji and not the others.
The original game did indeed use such a rune in its title โ one. One. They put two of that one and that one specifically. The one specific one where having two has a specific meaning.
The game used the rune just as an alternative for the letter S to spell out SUN in English, but they weren't even using it that way... It's not even in the same sort of order. It's just there for no official reason beyond that they wanted to.
So yeah, they wanted to put in a nazi symbol with a nazi meaning.
@Judeau @flwwhtrbt @Alex0007 Yeah. I wish they'd come out and say "this is unacceptable, the employee in question has been fired" etc etc, but if they go that direction it will only be after backlash has reached its max โ they should have done it immediately. *Sigh* There is so little out there that isn't enshittified, filled with horrible DRM, etc etc. Seeing GoG go like this just sucks beyond words. The fact that they're just making excuses and not actually saying outright that it's utterly unacceptable just...
And I was with them since almost the very beginning โ back when they were actually called Good Old Games and only had actual old games. Losing this just... I really don't have words.
@nazokiyoubinbou @flwwhtrbt @Alex0007 Absolutely. That would have been the best course of action.
Same here. Honestly, until I got my Steam Deck I almost exclusively bought games on GOG... Then I slowly shifted over to Steam because of the obvious convenience and integration with the deck.
I felt kind of bad about it, like I was betraying GOG and my principles, but now I don't feel quite as bad. ๐
Yup!
https://www.reddit.com/r/gog/comments/1txlz7z/hey_gog_wtaf/
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https://www.gog.com/forum/general/weird_subject_line_choice_for_a_newsletter/page1
Plenty of mainstream media has covered this too
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@flwwhtrbt Their response was so stupid. At first it was just an odd thing. And sure, I guess you could chalk it up to a Unicode issue, I personally didn't feel that it was that big an issue all in all, compared to a lot of other shit. I mean, people still buy Teslas despite Musk doing Nazi salutes on camera.
But then just saying "and hey, we actually noticed this ourselves, so at least we spared the Germans" was just so laughably stupid. 
Way to shoot yourselves in the foot, GOG. If _you_ actually found it to be unsuitable for your German audience... You didn't think that maybe others also would find it a bit, I don't know, inappropriate? I mean, aren't you even based in Poland? So... I mean... I shouldn't have to even say it, right?
... right?
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