Disclaimer: I am not personally invested in the whole thing. I am not cool and remote like a mountain but I don't care that much about GOG.
As I understand, GOG sent out a newsletter promoting a game with Nazi symbols.
The game's developers released a statement in a reddit comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/gog/comments/1txlz7z/hey_gog_wtaf/opxpgf0/
Afterwards GOG made two statements:
- https://old.reddit.com/r/gog/comments/1txmcyd/ts_gotta_be_racist_gog_explain/opxtour/
- https://www.gog.com/forum/general/weird_subject_line_choice_for_a_newsletter/post60
I don't expect folks to read through the whole thing but some surface level thoughts would be appreciated. Like they make a lot of emotionally charged statements citing culture and I can't tell if they are genuine or hot air.
Many ways to say:"Sorry, we fucked up and were stupid". But no, "As a pole" and "my heritage" and "symbol with long history" are the first things to come up.
No one cares if they are poles or not. Where is the exclusive access to some heritage someone has? And then they didn't want to hurt the feelings of Germans so only they didn't receive this newsletter, how absurd is that?
You can make mistakes and many mistakes and fuck up. But their excuse is a rambling about heritage, ethnic identity and just symbols with long history.
Edit: Game creators are hilarious:
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And with this they outed them self as idiots.