The company blamed “a series of mistakes” and inconsistent font rendering.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20260606180621/https://www.theverge.com/games/945088/gog-apologizes-email-nazi-symbols-the-end-of-the-sun
The company blamed “a series of mistakes” and inconsistent font rendering.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20260606180621/https://www.theverge.com/games/945088/gog-apologizes-email-nazi-symbols-the-end-of-the-sun
Not saying it was like that here, but I’m giving an example for your understanding.
Two kinds of jobs are specialists, or someone who knows what they’re doing and drones, or someone who doesn’t have to know what they’re doing as long as they get things pushed their way done.
A drone doesn’t know and doesn’t care what those symbols are, they just do their job regardless of the connotations.
A specialist knows entirely what it’s all about and makes informed decisions.
Now a company can have, among other types, drones or specialists top to bottom or a random mix. So often enough there are cases where everyone just does what they’re told without wasting a single brain cell in the process, whether as drones who just do as told or as malicious compliance officers due to various constraints.
The world is large and diverse. Situations beyond our knowledge happen all the time. Which is why I’m opting for keeping an open mind. Otherwise, should anything beyond the ordinary happen to me, reality won’t matter anymore, just these fixed expectations of public opinion.
That still means someone at GOG told someone else somewhere in the chain to do this, because the devs apparently didnt. Someone at GOG made a conscious decision to add those symbols, even if a hundred other people were just following orders.
Well, according to the poor explanation given shortly after, someone did do that.