Well that's a headline I never thought I'll write. Several posts and comments on the GOG subreddit have noticed a promotional e-mail that contains some... interesting symbols, which I can confirm with my own e-mail. As can be seen from the screenshot below, an e-mail containing a discount code for the game The End of the Sun (nothing out of the ordinary so far) contains 4 symbols that resemble Nazi iconography.

Well that’s a headline I never thought I’ll write. Several posts and comments on the GOG subreddit have noticed a promotional e-mail that contains some… interesting symbols, which I can confirm with my own e-mail. As can be seen from the screenshot below, an e-mail containing a discount code for the game The End of the Sun (nothing out of the ordinary so far) contains 4 symbols that resemble Nazi iconography.

  • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    644·
    10 hours ago

    to me it’s pretty clear that it was intentional. like ffs, they explicitly chose to send the email with that title everywhere except germany because it’s illegal to have nazi symbolism there. so obviously they knew! they realized what this came across as!

    idk if it’s an edgy representative, and now they’re defending that rep or something (or maybe the rep is the one writing the shitty non-apologies)… but yea, i’m downloading all my offline installers and if they don’t have a real apology and commitment to not fucking do this again then my account is gone.

    fuck gog. the ai shit was bad enough, this is fucking unacceptable. i’d rather put up with steam’s drm than give money to neonazis.

    • REDACTED@infosec.pubEnglish
      515·
      7 hours ago

      As an Easterner, I fully agree with that highlighted comment from Polish dude - the symbol you see in the title has nothing to do with Nazis, it is cultural heritage that we still use around.

      For us it’s different, but idea is the same - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugunskrusts

      Better don’t go to India

      Let me remind you that this is Polish game and GoG is owned by a Polish company.

      • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
        19·
        7 hours ago

        The Schutzstaffel is purely a Nazi symbol.

        There was no reason to use 2 of those runes together, especially when not using it in German mailers because they thought it would violate hate speech laws.

        • afaix@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          42 minutes ago

          From their comment it seems it was supposed to be two different symbols from different alphabets that just happen to show the same with some fonts.

          But when they said “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.” it looks very intentional. They could always just not put them together instead