Post #4163954

2026-07-28 11:48 UTC

@VileLasagna@mastodon.gamedev.place that whole thing was massively overblown, they included icons in an email and clearly didn't mean what people saw in it

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@VileLasagna@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-07-28 11:50

@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social I'd be more charitable towards that interpretation were it not for their response where they basically went "yeah, we knew what we were doing. We knew what these represented and decided to follow through with this anyway. But we made sure to not send it to Germany where it might get us into legal trouble" (last part not true) I think they burned every ounce of plausible deniability with that one

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@zanon@tech.lgbt 2026-07-28 14:46

@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social I wouldn't say it was massively overblown. It went under fast because they didn't address it properly. Plus not just that. Their first day of June (which is when Pride Month begins, worldwide) started with them releasing "HATRED" - a game glorifying mass shooting, with a description that is echoing what homophobes think of LGBTQIA+ people, like myself and many people in the fediverse. And no, the newsletter thing wasn't an accident or an unfortunate coincidence. They knew well enough NOT to send it to German users because of the legal trouble they'd get in if they did. Except they forgot to exclude Germany-based users who use English interface (hello, I'm one of those!). And we probably shouldn't mention their undisclosed usage of AI generated promo material, or their transphobic edgy joke - https://dailydot.com/parsec/gog-transphobic-joke - something that happened again more recently as well. I used to recommend them because of the DRM free nature of their shop. But ALL of this? Can't defend this. No one should.

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