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Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe?

Except their excuse that it was part of their culture and why they use it in the first place holds no water according to the developers of the game (part of said culture) as well as many others.

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DarkMetatron@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Well the games name is “End of the Sun” and it is a Slavic game, so using a slavic sun rune is not that extremely far fetched. Why using it double, which lead to the SS appearance, i``s another question and it was dumb at least. But I still don’t see ill intent, when something like that happens once I am fair enough to accept that people can do things in error. I still try to see the good in people

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DarkMetatron@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I can’t find a official statement from GOG with that content, only statements where they say that it was a error both in the internal processes, with not waiting for the responses of all internationale, especially in this case the german, teams before sending the newsletter and with checking if the runes could be problematic in some fonts.

The runes themself are both from the intended design and from the connected meaning and symbolism unproblematic, yes they can look problematic in the wrong fonts but that is more a problem of font design then of ill intent.

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- mushroommunk@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  www.reddit.com/r/gog/comments/1txmcyd/…/opxtour/?…
  
  Second sentence is literally the GOG rep stating is part of their culture. The reply is the dev explicitly stating they avoided several of the runes sent because of the connotations. Comments are full of people pointing out that they did not use the rune they claimed they did based on the Unicode and pointing out that in history using the double rune has had no meaning.
  
  The developers also pointed out in a different spot they changed their logo because the old one had connotations they wanted to avoid but that GOG used the old one, despite having the new less problematic one.
  
  Nothing GOG said passes the sniff test.
  
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  - brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I agree, the combination of the incorrect character, the “random” doubling of it and the way they did not respect the developer’s decision to change their logo makes it hard to believe it was a mistake.
    
    To me it really sounds like the change of logo made some piece of shit angry, and then they thought they’d “correct” it.
    
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