The email in the comments
Ofc GOG became bad after They started requiring devs to use AI tools for the GOG Galaxy client.
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these symbols seem to render very differently on different devices. i got a wheel of hatchets, an eight-pointed star, and two futhark runes on desktop.
...which is why it's at the very least irresponsible for them to send something like this. if there is actually intent here that only makes it worse.
Developers: you can't use unused Unicode to represent photos, such a simple string of Data could be interpreted an infinite different ways If there isn't unity.
Marketing team: bah humbug, what's the worst thing that could happen...
My favorite part was that GoG was told they cannot send this email in Germany because it would break the Nazi rule so they purposely get blocked their emails to getting to Germany.
In other words, they knew.
Their “apology” actually admitted that they knew about the potential for rendering differences. They say they knew that certain symbols could render as Nazi icons, which is why they specifically excluded those symbols from the email they sent to German accounts.
But if we extend that same “we didn’t send it to Germany” thing to the logical conclusion, it means they intentionally sent it to everyone else even when knowing the potential for issues.
This is a protocol, you can't memorize the reason behind every protocol you can only incorporate it into routine otherwise you would have to memorize a set of encyclopedias that shifts like aand on a desert.
I made a complaint last year about one of their emails having a giant banner saying "MAKE GAMING GREAT AGAIN!" they made mildly appropriate noises. Seemed like the person on the other end really just wanted me to fuck entirely off asap.
You forgot to hide your name.
The screenshot is from the PCGamer article
MFW
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People can shit on Valve all they want, but at least they never went full Nazi.
Gaben, "we aren't a monopoly there's plenty of other publishers to buy from"
GOG
Steam once again using the winning strategy of doing nothing while your opponent fucks up
interesting how easily is for a company to not shoot itself in the foot if they don't have public shareholders
Where's the game store footgun meme?
Crap, there's a quote about doing that, I just can't remember whether it was Technoblade, Sun Tzu or Emperor Rosselle who said it...
You mean the Napoleon Bonaparte one?
Never interrupt your enemy when he's about to make a mistake
100 % ai. Llms love emojis in subject lines
They are not emoji 😓
The strange thing is that they did notice It and elected to not send it in German instead of just not putting the symbols in the subject.
Iirc Germany has laws against it, so they probably wanted to avoid legal issues.
Which means they knew what it looked like and what they were sending.
This is really the whole incident is more than the sum of it's parts stuff, but in a negative way.
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