Ah yes, I too remember the part of 1984 in which Big Brother improved Oceania’s outdated train ticketing system.

Unfortunately this was added to the gamescom b2b meeting platform, used by actual game developers and publishers to organise actual meetings with each other at the event. It’s not a throwaway marketing email to be sent straight to junk; it affected everyone using the system for genuine business purposes.

They’re still doing ‘pay up or allow all cookies’ popups, so definitely not good on them as far as I’m concerned.