victorz comments on GOG confirm they are working towards GOG Galaxy on Linux

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

The symbols used can be explained by reading this, by the developers of the game:

https://www.reddit.com/r/gog/comments/1txmcyd/comment/opy1ya9/

It's a "kolovrat" and it looks like that.

To me this is just an honest and naive mistake. That turned out very bad in the end, but nonetheless.

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[–] afaix@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

Kolovrat is one thing, ss runes were unmistakable and the explanation “that’s our ancestry” made it worse since they’ve used greek symbols instead of the rune, and 2 of them together. Even developers said they had no explanation for that.

That was a nazi dog whistle and gog didn’t even try to distance themselves from nazis, not even saying “nazi bad” after the whole thing.

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago*

Everyone involved has said it was a serious and honest mistake, and they will try to do better in the future. I personally don't need more than that. I don't believe they have anything to gain from sending Nazi political messages in their newsletters. Nobody with any sense could believe there's any gain in that for a game company.

For me, this is water under the bridge. Not a nothing burger of course, it was a serious mistake, as stated. But it's over now. Forgiven but not forgotten. Let's move on.

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[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago

Oh I think that is very likely but it's odd that this is not what GOG said but the game dev. They don't want to be associated with using AI? They think this sound like an excuse? To me the other explanations sound more like an excuse than this.

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