While Steam continues to do well with it being the most popular games store, it seems CD PROJEKT Group's store GOG is really starting to struggle.
CD PROJEKT recently released their latest financial results, along with a call with investors that went over how the whole business is doing. It's not all bad news for them, since they saw overall 38% more sales revenue compared to the third quarter of last year. On the GOG side though, it posted increasing losses and so it's going to be restructured.
Over the current year to date it appears GOG has seen losses of about $2.21 million, which is pretty bad considering the 1.37 million they gained during the same period last year.
They've said that GOG "should focus more on its core business activity - which means offering a handpicked selection of games with its unique DRM- free philosophy" and so there's going to be some changes to the GOG team, with some moving over instead to CD PROJEKT RED. Additionally, they've "initiated reorganization of GOG’s operations" to focus on the "core business" and they're hoping this will "improve its financial effectiveness in 2022".
It's not really surprising, when you think that Epic Games continue to desperately try and turn a profit by pulling more customers to their store and even they don't expect to turn a profit until at least 2024.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: scaineNot as bad as Itch though, which lets you re-buy games you already own with no warning whatsoever. Just buy it over and over again, no problem. So flawed. And of course, since there's no way to see what you own on Itch.... nah, I gave up. It might be an open source client, but it hasn't evolved significantly at all in the years since it arrived. Just such a shame.https://itch.io/my-purchases
Do not thank me. :)
Quoting: The_Aquabatnot surpised since Cyberpunk is a pretty bad game.
Not sure what you mean. I've been playing it for a while (close to completing it) and it's a very good game. It feels smaller than the Witcher 3 in scope though.
Last edited by Shmerl on 30 November 2021 at 3:50 pm UTC
Quoting: GuestQuoting: seegrasIf I can't crosscheck whether I already have it on steam, it's too much a hassle.
....you can't login to gog.com and view what games are in your library?
I've got 600 games on gog.com, ca 1000 on itch.io and 4500 on steam. And especially when it comes to bundles or specials, it gets too much a hassle to crosscheck.
Edit: it's actually 947 games on gog.com and 5008 on steam.
And I have no idea how many on itch, because they don't tell me, but I bought the "Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality" which consists of 30 items on 58 pages plus one item (=1741), of which I don't know how many are computer games (many are TTRPGs or LARP-settings) and I also bought some single items over time.
Last edited by Seegras on 30 November 2021 at 3:59 pm UTC
Quoting: The_Aquabatnot surpised since Cyberpunk is a pretty bad game.
What does Cyberpunk have to do with the success of GOG?
Quoting: ShmerlQuoting: The_Aquabatnot surpised since Cyberpunk is a pretty bad game.
Not sure what you mean. I've been playing it for a while (close to completing it) and it's a very good game. It feels smaller than the Witcher 3 in scope though.
Yeah - CyberPunk is actually pretty superb. Poor launch, of course. But since the 1.3 patch, it's been an excellent experience. Great graphics, decent story, excellent side-missions and most important of all, fun.
Quoting: Alm888Quoting: scaineNot as bad as Itch though, which lets you re-buy games you already own with no warning whatsoever. Just buy it over and over again, no problem. So flawed. And of course, since there's no way to see what you own on Itch.... nah, I gave up. It might be an open source client, but it hasn't evolved significantly at all in the years since it arrived. Just such a shame.https://itch.io/my-purchases
Do not thank me. :)
Ha! Yeah, I saw they'd added that a while back, but it only works for games you've bought directly from a game's page (and the list, oddly, doesn't show you platform support). But at least it match what you see in "Library / Owned Games" in the Itch client.
But I've bought two bundles on Itch, which amounts to several hundred games/tools, and while I page through, or search those titles on that same page, there's no way to see them in the client. You have to go to the game's web page and activate it somehow - I forget how now, but when I realised I'd have to do so for 59 pages of games, I gave up.
But as I say, my main gripe is that while I bought, say, Nuclear Throne, on Itch about 3 years ago, I can still buy it again, while logged in, with no warning at all that I already own it. Now extend that to 59 pages of bundles... yeech.
Quoting: mao_dze_dunOh, come on. Did you just blame Epic for GOG's troubles? Liam, please :D.
What... what did you read? Where did you read that?
Are you referring to where Liam notes that EVEN EPIC can't succeed with their millions of dollars, exclusives and free games, and somehow, in your head, turned that into "Liam blaming Epic" for GOG's failure?
rustybroomhandle Nov 30, 2021
Quoting: The_AquabatQuoting: ShmerlQuoting: The_Aquabatnot surpised since Cyberpunk is a pretty bad game.
Not sure what you mean. I've been playing it for a while (close to completing it) and it's a very good game. It feels smaller than the Witcher 3 in scope though.
seriously Physics effects are a bad joke? everything feels unfinished on cyberpunk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LB5N8Eht2g
That's a 1 year old video. And C2077 has way better story and characters than GTAV. Seamless dialogue, and the city is generally much more enjoyable to be in than any of the boring-ass cities in GTA. Is it a better game overall? Probably not, but it's much more my thing.
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