GOG.com wants to "get back to the roots"

CD Projekt RED recently released financial results for the past few months, which show that while the Polish studio is making good money overall, the company's GOG.com store is losing money. The site reported a loss of $ 1.15 million for the third quarter of the fiscal year, and for the first nine months of this year, the loss was $ 2.2 million.

With Epic Games and Valve's continued growth in PC game stores, this seems to be a turning point for GOG. We need a strategy that will be implemented in the coming months. The point is that the store is slowly starting to return to its roots.

“GOG's business has been challenging and we recently took steps to improve its financial position,” said CD Projekt CFO Petr Neljubovic in a special statement. "First of all, we decided that GOG should focus on its core business of offering a carefully selected assortment of games united by a unique "no-DRM" philosophy".

Good Old Games emerged as a niche gaming platform focused on offering Windows games without anti-piracy software integration. GOG users buy and download the games they want and, unlike Steam, can do whatever they want with them without the need for a dedicated launcher or a constant internet connection.

A few years ago, the store decided to take the next step in development and in 2015 introduced GOG Galaxy and its own client, and the main emphasis was on new games. In 2019, GOG even unveiled the Galaxy 2.0, and discontent among many of the store's users began to surface in September, when the store's Hitman GoTY release was deliberately bombarded with negative reviews due to the inherent DRM protection of the game. GOG responded promptly and pulled the game off the market and then apologized for releasing it as-is.

A source: videogameschronicle

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