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

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[-] sirico@feddit.uk 9 points 1 hour ago

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.

[-] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 hours ago

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).

[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 7 points 2 hours ago

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

Now if Steam goes down, I lose my entire library

[-] aido@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

Gabe Newell has promised that if Steam goes down you won't lose your library, but we only have his word as assurance.

[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 1 points 17 minutes ago

No doubt the corporate drones that take over after his death will shit all over his legacy.

[-] ugjka@lemmy.world 1 points 44 minutes ago

Anything that uses steam apis and services won't work without steam and steam offers a lot of that to game devs

[-] glitchdx@lemmy.world 12 points 2 hours ago

If steam goes down I'm sailing the high seas from then on.

[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

A lot of steam games dont have drm

You would lose only most of your library, not all of it

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 hours ago

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?

[-] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 16 points 3 hours ago

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

[-] freeman@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 hours ago

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..

[-] Fontasia@feddit.nl 4 points 3 hours ago

"no pun intended"

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 29 points 6 hours ago

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.

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 31 points 5 hours ago

GOG is a side project of CD Project, the makers of The Witcher and Cyberpunk. They are massively wealthy. If GOG goes down, it's because CD Project lets it happen, not because there is no other way.

[-] zqps@sh.itjust.works 1 points 50 minutes ago

Are they publicly traded?

[-] oo1@lemmings.world 20 points 8 hours ago

I see what they did there. groan.

[-] Rooty@lemmy.world 29 points 8 hours ago

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

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 25 points 6 hours ago

i don’t want it to be the only option.

Neither do I but it is. GOG doesn't support Linux. Heroic is a 3rd party community effort. Valve is currently the only company making financial investments into Linux gaming.

[-] lengau@midwest.social 3 points 1 hour ago

Many more companies than Valve are making financial investments into Linux gaming, including companies that own various Linux distributions (Red Hat, Canonical, etc.), CodeWeavers (who amongst other things have been contracted by Valve on a lot of Proton work) and to a lesser extent Humble Bundle.

[-] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 17 points 6 hours ago

It does support Linux: it lets you download Linux installer for games that have a Linux port.

The lack of GOG Galaxy on Linux just means you have to manually manage your games.

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago

It does support Linux: it lets you download Linux installer for games that have a Linux port.

GOG lets publishers upload various installers but GOG does nothing to support them, let alone offer something like Proton (which is open source, so they could take and integrate it for free).

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

No one needs to "offer" Proton. It's available freely for anyone. I think some people think Proton is a Steam thing. It isn't. Yeah, Valve did a lot of work on it, which is great, but it isn't limited to them. Vlave has essentially unlimited resources, and I'm happy they spent some making improvements for WINE, but GOG does not have nearly the same resources. I wouldn't expect them to put their effort into that. Valve only did because they were building hardware that they wanted to run Linux.

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

No one needs to “offer” Proton. It’s available freely for anyone.

And that's how GOG does not support Linux: Paying customers need to figure it out on their own. They don't even value their customers to a degree to take and integrate existing open source solutions.