Game store GOG has a new blog post up detailing how they're doing, and it seems like things are starting to go a bit better for them. Back in 2021, I reported on how in the CD PROJEKT financials, it showed that GOG was losing money, so it seems they may be starting to turn things around a little bit.
In their new post, they showed that for 2022 they have seen an 11% increase in active users across all of GOG services with an 18% increase in their overall user base. However, GOG Galaxy only "remained consistent", so it seems they aren't seeing much growth for their launcher. They're also reporting a net profit of $1.2M USD, noting they're losing around 4% due to suspending operations in Russia and Belarus.
Nothing close to how they were doing in 2020 though, which they attribute the spike that year to Cyberpunk 2077 and COVID-19 increasing sales due to people being at home more.
As for their market split they're seeing 53% from Europe, 37% from North America, 4% Asia, 4% Australia and New Zealand and 2% elsewhere.
The amount of games releasing on GOG has been increasing every year too, although it's nothing close to what Steam has, since GOG do a little more curation on what they accept (which is at times a little weird on what they deny). From 296 releases in 2018 up to 684 in 2022.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
I do wish them luck and am glad they’re turning things around and most of all I appreciate them publishing info like that.
Last edited by damarrin on 5 May 2023 at 12:29 pm UTC
- Generally must be Linux native because I'd rather not deal with the Wine setup
- Must be single-player or LAN multiplayer
Sadly, there are times I see a game on Steam has Linux support only to find that the GOG release does not. I've also seen Steam games get major updates 1-2 months before GOG does. Both cases are probably the developer's choice I imagine, but still sucks for me!
To be clear, I do still check GOG often when my criteria lines up, because I take comfort in DRM-free games that I can download and own forever. It's just a bummer that the Linux game and patch distribution systems are really minimal... so my purchases are thus minimal.
legluondunet May 5, 2023
If the game is not available on Steam, I will buy it on GOG.
And Epic Games is never a choice for me:
https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/964284402741149698
Money is the power of consummer.
Last edited by legluondunet on 5 May 2023 at 2:46 pm UTC
More active official Linux support from them would be good of course, but they are consistently the biggest DRM-free gaming store, so I don't mind buying games from them and handling set up on Linux myself.
Last edited by Shmerl on 5 May 2023 at 5:10 pm UTC
chickenb00 May 5, 2023
on_en_a_gros May 5, 2023
Quoting: Shmerlso I don't mind buying games from them and handling set up on Linux myself.
My biggest problem with gog are the saves, I lost my progress in wasteland 3, art of rally and hellpoint because the copy and paste for save files is not working.
I didn't buy or play any gog games after losing my wasteland late game save, Despite my preference for store / only gaming focus experience they offer.
Quoting: on_en_a_grosMy biggest problem with gog are the saves, I lost my progress in wasteland 3, art of rally and hellpoint because the copy and paste for save files is not working.
I didn't buy or play any gog games after losing my wasteland late game save, Despite my preference for store / only gaming focus experience they offer.
Yeah, I back up my saves myself as well.
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