🚨 ATTENTION ALL GAMERS🚨: This is sad 😢

  • daniyeg [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    15 hours ago

    i used to frequently download stuff from gog-games when i was younger, it’s sad to see a legend go. on the other hand it had a not insignificant amount of viruses so perhaps not a total loss.

      • tocopherol [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        25·
        19 hours ago

        https://www.reddit.com/r/gog/comments/1txlz7z/hey_gog_wtaf/

        Basically they sent out a newsletter with the black sun and SS symbols in the subject in an email about a game with a Slavic setting. Their response to it seemed to make it sound worse, like they recognized it looked like nazi shit and they changed it after noticing it before sending it out, but only for German users, where they could be sued for it because of their laws banning Nazi symbols. I don’t know much about the forum history but people have said they have allowed open nazis to post for years. There really isn’t much room for doubting this is intentional anymore. It seems at least some part of the company structure are okay with nazis.

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          10·
          18 hours ago

          What the hell, the “defense” they’re trying to put out is unbelievable lol. The devs are trying to say that it was an AI that put the runes in, but it also seems like they exclusively used modern neopagan runes instead of actually real historical ones.

          • tocopherol [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
            8·
            17 hours ago

            If they had said nothing at all and just changed it I wouldn’t suspect them as much but yeah they basically made it sound even more intentional haha. They tried to claim it was because they displayed differently on their device? I don’t know, I’m just so used to nazis acting ignorant and saying they were joking or whatever that it is hard to believe they aren’t actual nazi supporters after all the discussion, there is a link on the reddit post somewhere to a discussion on the GOG forums and it made them look even worse.

            • invalidusernamelol [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
              9·
              17 hours ago

              I doubt that they have a corporate culture of being Nazis, but they definitely allowed some to slip through the cracks and get into these positions. The smokescreen probably them scrambling to respond while they figure out exactly which heads need to roll

              • tocopherol [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
                9·
                16 hours ago

                Yeah I agree, I take it for granted how seasoned I have been in Amerikkka observing and studying fascist culture, many people might not recognize the signs or might fall for the excuses.

                • invalidusernamelol [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
                  7·
                  15 hours ago

                  I also know that in corporate environments especially, there’s usually a “don’t rock the boat” mentality. No one will really speak up about anything until it boils over into a major issue because no one wants to preemptively start something.

                  Could definitely be that several people know about someone (this is likely one person or a couple people), might have mentioned it to others, but didn’t have the concrete evidence to confidently do anything, and now this has happened and all of that is suddenly coming out all at once (and they can’t say anything about that until the investigation is finished because then they’d be on the hook for libel if they got something wrong).

                  Not really defending GOG on this, since they still should have been more actively vetting their employees, but I think this is definitely a very common corporate management failure and not some company wide Nazi conspiracy.

                  I’ll definitely be keeping an eye out over the next few weeks to see if heads roll or if anyone breaks and says something. This is so blatantly Nazi that someone in the company absolutely allowed it and is indeed a Nazi, and I guarantee that others knew and will hopefully now have the confidence to speak out.