GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam”

running out of steam

THESE PEOPLE HAVE TO GET DEGREES IN FUCKING ENGLISH TO DO THIS

GOG was good for acquiring and re-releasing OLD GAMES. somewhere along the way they decided they wanted to compete with the big platforms and be "We're just like them but without DRM"

I haven't used GOG for years, they allowed me to relive a few of my old adolescence favorites, but stopped being useful to me a long time ago :/

Let's be honest, this was apparent for a long time. Steam, a centralised platform, has been making strides in Linux gaming and has been making innovation after innovation together with its steam deck. Gog, a forefront to freedom in gaming, barely did anything for the Linux gaming scene. No innovation either. Its just the simple (and well needed) premise of no DRM. It's necessary, but not enough. It didn't cater to its niche, it just committing to creating one under a premise. That's not how you go forward. How does this connect to bad management? Well, I think that with good management gog would make different moves. And wouldn't rest on its laurels so much.

There's nothing wrong with the business model of selling older games at affordable prices. This is about poor management. (Or deliberately bad management by a "CEO" who was hired to destroy GOG to remove a popular choice from us).

Thankfully if GOG goes down I don't lose anything.

Now if Steam goes down, I lose my entire library

People talking about money kinda missing the point this is a culture issue. They need to sort themselves out clean house if people can't be reasonable for their staff.

The launcher that they have is pretty rough. I downloaded it for Mac OS and it just wouldn’t run right. Kept closing down. If I could just download right from the website they’d have some money.

If they draw is drm free games why only allow purchase through a custom launcher like everything else?

As a result, no one on the team has the courage to express their opinion. Under Gołębiewski, GOG typically makes business decisions that may be profitable in the short term, but may not contribute to the platform’s long-term growth.

Why half ass things when your the good guy?

The publication added that CD Projekt cuts jobs at its subsidiary every two to three years, with annual staff turnover reaching around 30%.

As summed up by another former employee, “GOG has been acting well tactically from a financial perspective, but poorly strategically, and the current business model is likely running out of steam.”

So nothing burger? Other than a corpo being anti-worker which is not news..

I really like GOG so it would be highly unfortunate to see them go under. I guess we really can't have nice things in this day and age.

I hope they stick around they are great for gaming. I need to buy off there more often.

This makes me sad. I wanna believe in gog. The last bastion of hope for gaming.

Too bad, I use Steam and it works wonderfully on Linux, but i don't want it to be the only option.

Shit I really like GOG as it's the only competition to steam

The former employee knew what they were doing with their choice of words.

I'm really happy with my experience with GOG, but they put a lot of effort into their Windows app and i ws pretty blunt with my feedback, it is pretty useless to me and I find it unhelpful. Heroic game launcher on Linux great and cost GOG $0.00. My thought is that they have been focusing on the wrong things, fundamentally I love their strong DRM stance and when I am travelling internationally,the games I bought off GOG work, unlike Steam😡😡😡😡. So if they have come to this realization, then nothing about these changes are disturbing as a customer, but sad to hear their employees taking the hit. 😢

“GOG regularly adapts its structure to its strategy and ongoing projects, sometimes this means eliminating certain roles — as was the case recently.”

Yeah, but firing 30% of your entire contract workforce reveals that you don't give a flying fuck about sustaining the lifespan of the storefront and prefer to pad the executives golden parachutes from the stock valuation.

The word choice is certainly not accidental.

Running out of steam

Lol

Unfortunate. Competition is generally good for the consumer and I'd hate to see one of more more customer-friendly storefronts go away.

I see what they did there. groan.

"no pun intended"

NOOOOOOO I LOVE GOG

I'd certainly love to hear that they're at least turning a profit. It's my default store now, but given the ambiguity of what I'm buying in the multiplayer space, and the lesser experience I get as a Linux customer, they're not making it easy.

No....

They're the ones who preserve and update old games. I can't.. I can't

I mean it is owned by CD Projekt

If only they were a co-op

This is a real shame, I used to buy all my games on GoG and had high hopes for the galaxy 2.0 client. Hopefully they keep going because we need a viable competitor to Steam that isn't awful.

Any other sources for this? Not for the job cutting, but for GoG's business model going downhill? Haven't big layoffs happened every few years since the start of GoG?

GameWorldObserver.

Can they be trusted?

That's too bad. No doubt I appreciate it Steam for what it is, even knowing that I don't actually own any of the software I buy from them. That being said, I try to support GOG where/when I can.

Is there any "easy" way to get GOG games running on a Steam Deck? It's been awhile since I last tried to look into it, but back then it seemed like a lot of steps and a lot of places to potentially mess up the process. I believe I kind of got something working at one point, but I'd honestly have to go back and double check.

Ah yes, poles fucking up another good idea cuz they are not able to create a good working condotions yay