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GOG Fighting the Good Fight (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is this about the Gog Newsletter thing? I’m not 100% informed, but didn’t they pretty much admit that they weren’t aware that ᛋ displayed as ϟ in some devices?

It’s not even a “sorry we got caught” thing, they had nothing to gain by sending a Nazi symbol in their newsletter. What more are they supposed to say?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    They specifically didn't send it to German accounts cause they knew it could be shown as Nazi symbolism.

    This isn't a "sorry we fucked up" this is a "we knew it could go wrong but didn't care enough to do anything about it".

    Personally I don't really care that much. These promotional emails aren't reviewed by every company member, so even if it was deliberately used Nazi symbolism, its at most someone in the advertising department. But I also understand why people are really upset about this.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    An explanation for them not sending it to Germany could be that the localization team for the German region, probably being more aware of such nuances, spotted it and removed it whereas those who did the localization for other regions just didn't spot it, so it slipped through.

    There could be arguments about communication between teams but, honestly, localization teams don't really need to communicate with one another so it isn't surprising that they didn't.

    Most likely it actually is a "oops we fucked up" situation.

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