#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.
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 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘴
They said so themselves
𝘐 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘶𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘺𝘮𝘣𝘰𝘭𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘢𝘻𝘪 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘮𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺
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 — 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 — 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 — 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. 😆
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