The company blamed “a series of mistakes” and inconsistent font rendering.
  • Lost_My_MindEnglish
    1210·
    2 days ago

    OH COME ON!!! Just when I start buying from GOG after hearing good things for years.

    Now they’re nazi???

    Nope. It’s too late to request refunds, but it’s never too late to not ever buy from them again.

    Edit: Ummm…I’m being downvoted for not supporting nazis??? Explain please.

    • DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zipEnglish
      7·
      1 day ago

      Seems like it was a mistake from a staff member but if you want to go scorched earth on an entire company for the actions of whoever made that email then go ahead and buy licenses you don’t own from the competition.

      This is pretty bad but having read the apology and explanation it was either one or two people who made this email or one of two people using AI assistance that made the email.

      Seeing as how they apologized and acknowledged the mistake and mentioned being understaffed on a banking holiday I’m not going to hold the actions of one or two against the entire company who said they were against that action.

      Also, Polish people famously hate Nazi’s as anyone should so I’m really just not buying in to the whole ragebait on this to be honest.

      Had they not apologized for the actions of that employee I would have boycotted.

    • lath@piefed.socialEnglish
      91·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • Comrade_Spood@quokk.auEnglish
        23·
        1 day ago

        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.

        • lath@piefed.socialEnglish
          21·
          1 day ago

          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.

          • Comrade_Spood@quokk.auEnglish
            11·
            21 hours ago

            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.

            • lath@piefed.socialEnglish
              1·
              14 hours ago

              Well, according to the poor explanation given shortly after, someone did do that.