Grab your wallets!
Don’t give your money to a nazi organization.
Context
Have you identified the symbols by copy-pasting somewhere to verify? Can you post symbols here to see, what are these?
No, the fact they didn’t send to Germany specifically really adds more questions and clarifies what they meant.
Did GOG ever make good on the nazi dog whistles they put in that game promo email?
Yeah, not buying anything from a company that can’t even do as little as saying “Nazis bad” after sending out SS symbols.
All they did was a non-apology and attempts at gasligting by saying it’s their heritage.
Wait, what? Have so been living under a rock? When did they send out Nazi symbols?
Edit: omfg, this was just last week?! Yikes!
And to think, no one would have even blinked if they’d only used one rune. SMH.
Actually good point. The ss has been notsi bullshit for a long time, very distinct. Only a 12 year old wouldn’t recognize it right away.
It’s super disappointing. Whenever “Steam’s monopoly” comes up as a discussion topic, “Er, what about GOG?” was a natural question.
Maybe not so much anymore.
I use both, but haven’t bought anything recently due to having too much shit already. Don’t know what I’m going to do with gog going forward, maybe hit the high seas.
It wasn’t a dog whistle, it was foreshadowing for the Summer Sale!
/s
/ss
Not that I saw. I won’t buy from them at this point. Anyone who purposefully posts the SS doesn’t get my money.
Depends on your definition of “make good”.
After the first disastrous comment on reddit they issued a second one on Twitter which sounded like the first one should have in the first place.
But that’s all and they didn’t address it inside the newsletter, so for me it’s empty words without really addressing the deeper issue of how much somebody in GOG fucked up.
Just context for people since I had to look it up myself.
Neither statement actually says Nazi or Faccism is wrong. Literally the one thing that would help them right now, and twice they failed to do it. The GoG forums are full of folks saying this has been a known problem for years that hate speech was not being moderated.
Sooooo, yeah. It’s pretty disappointing. Not sending it to Germany (where it is illegal and punishable) but then okaying its use for rest of the world is a WILD explanation. Y’all get how that is worse than if it was some “some rogue intern” being a dipshut, but speaks to a company side problem.
I’m sure af not going to buy GoG anymore.
They are literally apologizing? What kind of hill are you dying on?
I think people want to amplify this to justify staying on Steam. “Steam has DRM but at least they’re not Nazis! So I’ll take the moral approach and only use Steam.” When in reality it’s just a matter of convenience but portrayed as a moral decision.
Nope.
I have a few years of Mastodon posts, Lemmy gaming posts and articles where my support of GOG was made very clear.
I have like 50ish games on Steam and a stupidly high number of a few thousand on GOG, but their non-action over their Nazi nonsense has had me drop support and purchases on GOG.
I won’t support that kind of thinking, and that vague non apology didn’t do it for me.
Cope
I don’t think so at least not in my case. I prefer buying games on GOG due them being DRM free and since GOG is European. However, I also received this email and think that their ‘apologies’ aren’t good enough. We have an issue with right wing parties rising in the EU and we should make it clear that stuff like this is not okay. This just normalizes the usage of such symbols so people feel more comfortable in showing them.
I think so too, PR could have handled it better (ffs, just say “nazi bad” like 5 times to make it super clear), but it’s not like a known nazi company did a nazi thing, nobody expected this, it was out of context, and they gained noting (I wouldn’t say they thought they would gain anything by ad-targeting nazis … in a newsletter to all, they did have an explanation for it, and they did stop the process midway).
It does seem like an operational risk from the marketing department.
I think that we should judge fascists/nazis, but use our heads to assess all counterparties - they don’t have to do a nazi salute to be a nazi or support them, but if they make one then it better be accidental & with no (immediate or prior) context.
It was sent to Germany, just not to users with their language set to German.
Yep, I send an email to support asking about it and they said they can’t tell me more than the second apology and quoted it.
Same old prices…bland. Oh and price hikes too. I had to check my order history to compare to find that I paid $.89 for the original Theme Park back in 2016. They want $3 now for it. Screw that.
Wait until you find out what Subway used to charge for a footlong sandwich.
Should be called an oblong anyway
What do they charge now? Also, are their “foot"longs still 11”, or have they gotten even shorter?
Average size is 4.5"
It varies, but it’s something like $7.50 to $8. In any case, inflation is a thing. Theme Park was added to the Good Old Games program, which means GOG did real work on it, and it’s not egregious to charge a few extra dollars. Plus, sale percentages are variable; sometimes Dragon Age is 50% off, but right now it’s 60%; this sale might not be a given game’s deepest discount. Are they charging what you’re willing to pay? If I was in the market for Theme Park at $0.89, I’d probably still be in the market for it at $3.
It varies, but it’s something like $7.50 to $8.
Really? Wow, in my area it’s like $12.
Sounds like Seattle prices
Podunk area of Northern California actually.
Oof.
That’s what the order form says here in Brooklyn, which ought to be more expensive than most locations. Maybe it’s because they have to compete with the plethora of bodegas we have.
Inflation, to me, is code word for “I’m going to be greedier”. So, I’m so sick of seeing that word ‘inflation’ being thrown around so much because it’s just excusing and justifying the greed.
You’re free to believe what you like, but it is real. The cost of an input (electricity, server components, employee salaries, etc.) goes up, and the cost of what a company produces has to go up as well.
Please try to stay on topic. Tell me more about Subway sandwiches.
Right? It’s till cheaper than a coffee. I’d be pissed if it were $15
You weren’t suppose to do any research on sale prices you dumb consumer! That’s not how capitalism works, jeez!
The 89 cents were probably on sale too. So the only thing you could say is that the sale is not as good as ten years ago.
1.49 is honestly not a bad bargain either. But, this just highlights where sales have degraded to over the past five years.
https://isthereanydeal.com/game/cyberpunk-2077/info/
New all time low on Cyberpunk 2077. There are some others that are close to their lowest. Nothing on my ITAD list is on sale so wallet is staying closed this time.
itad graph shows me prices since january 2026 only :/ i guess i prefer gg.deals
Below the graph is the full timeline, with zoom options, where you can see the prce going back to launch.
Are you using a direct currency region that was recently added? There won’t be any data for currencies that weren’t tracked, for obvious reasons. You can switch currencies to one of the other major currencies like EUR or USD to see trends earlier than that.
Also the graph is defaulting to showing 6 months for scale… but you can extend it out much farther with the buttons below the graph.
I had to switch region to usa and currency for $t to see whole timeline. Thanks for the tip.
Been waiting for Slay the Spire and Undertale sales on GoG. The history shows those have not been on sale in GoG for years now or whatever.
I guess they will never come.
And also hoping to one day be able to get Slay the Spire 2, Balatro and maybe Deltarune in GoG…
Mark of Ninja Remasterrd historical low https://gg.deals/game/mark-of-the-ninja-remastered/
