#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.

@flwwhtrbt it's just emojis being replaced with unrelated text icons. Not well-tested enough and that's about it

@Alex0007

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

@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.

@nazokiyoubinbou @flwwhtrbt @Alex0007 Wow! I completely missed this news. After looking into it, that's awfully hard to defend...

@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. 😆