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GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers
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this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2026
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That's not even true. Am German, got the mail. (To a ".de" e-mail adress btw, so it's not like it would have been hard to filter.)
AFAIK, it was not sent to people signed up for the German language newsletter. Filtered via language, not location.
This doesn't even make sense when it's about symbols that are illegal in one country. Not all German speakers live in Germany, not all people in Germany use the German language version of things.
But also not everyone with a .de domain lives in Germany. You can't really accurately filter for this in a newsletter unless you know everyone's location. So they just used the language, thinking that would catch most German citizens.
There is also a "location" in my GOG profile, wnich is set to Germany.
Someone else further down mentioned that it was likely the translators that caught the issue which would make more sense as to why the German translation was held up while it was still sent out in other languages (regardless of user location).