GOG subscribers report receiving a promotional email for The End of the Sun that includes symbols resembling Nazi iconography, including SS-style lightning bolts and a Black Sun-like emblem. The incident has sparked backlash and questions over how the imagery ended up in an official marketing message, with GOG now issuing a response.

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.

  • Capt. Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Wow… I really don’t buy those excuses…

    They literally admit to seeing the problem before distribution, but instead of just deleting them from the email, they decide to just not include the place where it would get them into the most legal trouble instead?

    Uh… No… That’s not an accident anymore. There’s no oopsie there.

    Then they go and double down on reddit by giving the excuse that the symbol has been around way longer than it’s modern historical use, so we shouldn’t stop using it because someone corrupted it?

    No, that’s not how it works.

    Things get ruined and they take on new meanings, that includes words and symbols. You don’t just get to decide that you’re going to take back the symbol of some of the worst evil mankind has known just because it had another meaning before that and then expect everyone to be like, “Oh, alright…” It has a new meaning now. One that everyone recognizes… A meaning that it is blatantly apparent they were aware of beforehand and decided to use anyway.

    Anyone buying that bullshit excuse is an idiot.

    Fuck GoG.