Comments have gone off the rails.

Locking this down

Was willing to buy the “oopsie daisy! The symbols displayed incorrectly” defence, but admitting that they KNEW the issue existed, put two of them side by side, and then doubled down by basically saying “one bad egg shouldn’t spoil a perfectly good rune”, then not sending the offending email to German customers is baffling!

Time to demand a few refunds I think. Can’t support any justification for promoting fascism.

Surprising amount of people here seem to believe the PR bullshit non-apology. You probably think Musk just did a Roman salute too. Pathetic.

Good to know most people have a brain and are capable of critical thinking to easily see through the bullshit.

After nearly two decades working in IT companies, I can see how someone could discover this issue and notify someone else, but it was never properly escalated and addressed due to ineffective internal organization. I don't mean to defend them, but I don't see any reasonable explanation for why they would have done this intentionally.

So they knew it was there and decided not to send it to the market where it would be possibly illegal. This is pretty brazen and I cannot imagine what they are thinking would come from this that would make the reputational impact worthwhile.

Wow... I really don't buy those excuses...

They literally admit to seeing the problem before distribution, but instead of just deleting them from the email, they decide to just not include the place where it would get them into the most legal trouble instead?

Uh... No... That's not an accident anymore. There's no oopsie there.

Then they go and double down on reddit by giving the excuse that the symbol has been around way longer than it's modern historical use, so we shouldn't stop using it because someone corrupted it?

No, that's not how it works.

Things get ruined and they take on new meanings, that includes words and symbols. You don't just get to decide that you're going to take back the symbol of some of the worst evil mankind has known just because it had another meaning before that and then expect everyone to be like, "Oh, alright..." It has a new meaning now. One that everyone recognizes... A meaning that it is blatantly apparent they were aware of beforehand and decided to use anyway.

Anyone buying that bullshit excuse is an idiot.

Fuck GoG.

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.

Zero explanation for why there were two of them, and the thing about Germany makes them look worse.

The fact the game has changed logo and gog decided they'd include the old one stinks.

This makes the runes in the gog mail feel like a reaction to the devs "going back" on their original iconography and an attempt at fixing it.

"Oh, you changed your symbol because it was too nazi-like? Let us double down on it."

This needs to be properly adressed and whoever did this and whoever greenlighted it should the full feel consequences.

All that being said I can not see this being a company wide intention. Just from a business point of view this is so stupid that it beggars believe. Even if the entire company are neo nazis they would know that openly espousing those ideas would result in losing customers and losing partners.

The big game publishers would not want to be associated with Nazis at least publicly so they might pull games from GoG to stop the reputational damage. Anyone that has at least a functioning brain would stop buying from them until there is a full explenation and proper resolution.

And considering GoG barely keeps their head above water, they can not afford this at all. Unless the new owner wants to tank the company and sell off the assets.

First of all I love GOG, I love their mission, and I have stood by them since the beginning.

That being said, why the living fuck did they put 2 of the last symbol? What did that represent!?

One day I wish we as a collective humanity can reclaim these symbols. Growing up in a Chinese household. I've know the manji as symbol associated with the Buddha, not as a symbol of hate and oppression.