The company blamed “a series of mistakes” and inconsistent font rendering.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20260606180621/https://www.theverge.com/games/945088/gog-apologizes-email-nazi-symbols-the-end-of-the-sun
The company blamed “a series of mistakes” and inconsistent font rendering.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20260606180621/https://www.theverge.com/games/945088/gog-apologizes-email-nazi-symbols-the-end-of-the-sun
You’re downvoted for throwing the Nazi word around like it’s cabbage. People might agree this situation was a fuckup, going full tilt on it though is an overreaction.
Not op, but I struggle to see how this could possibly be an accident. I don’t feel like accusing GOG of at least having a nazi problem to some capacity in their company is that unbelievable. Like I aint gonna be buying from them anymore, cause like I said, I struggle to see how this could have been an accident.
Not saying it was like that here, but I’m giving an example for your understanding.
Two kinds of jobs are specialists, or someone who knows what they’re doing and drones, or someone who doesn’t have to know what they’re doing as long as they get things pushed their way done.
A drone doesn’t know and doesn’t care what those symbols are, they just do their job regardless of the connotations.
A specialist knows entirely what it’s all about and makes informed decisions.
Now a company can have, among other types, drones or specialists top to bottom or a random mix. So often enough there are cases where everyone just does what they’re told without wasting a single brain cell in the process, whether as drones who just do as told or as malicious compliance officers due to various constraints.
The world is large and diverse. Situations beyond our knowledge happen all the time. Which is why I’m opting for keeping an open mind. Otherwise, should anything beyond the ordinary happen to me, reality won’t matter anymore, just these fixed expectations of public opinion.
That still means someone at GOG told someone else somewhere in the chain to do this, because the devs apparently didnt. Someone at GOG made a conscious decision to add those symbols, even if a hundred other people were just following orders.
Well, according to the poor explanation given shortly after, someone did do that.
Okay buddy Nazi.