GOG acquired by co-founder Michał Kiciński, reiterates philosophy of ‘freedom, independence, and genuine control’ — CD Projekt sells platform to focus on creating games | GOG will continue releasing DRM-free games for gamers to enjoy forever.
https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/gog-acquired-by-co-founder-reiterates-philosophy-of-freedom-independence-and-genuine-control-cd-projekt-sells-platform-to-focus-on-creating-games
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TIL CD Projekt owned GOG… Happy to see one of the founders is taking it over though!
Wow an actual take over story but good.
“DRM-free is more central to GOG than ever,” the company said in its blog. “Your library stays yours to enjoy: same access, same offline installers, same sense of ownership. Your data stays with GOG, and GOG Galaxy remains optional.”
DRM (and by extension dmca 1201) has been a major cause of enshittification
Cool, now please make a Linux based client with an embedded Proton wrapper.
Thanks in advance!
GOGlins unite
Another re post
Didnt know CD owned GOG..
Makes sense for CDPR, and for GoG.
For CDPR, they can focus on what they’re good at, e.g. Making games (and hopefully do it even better and more efficiently in the future), while for GoG it opens up more partnership opportunities with other studios and former competitors, now that CDPR is no longer the owner.
Hopefully GoG stays the same in spirit, but is allowed to grow even bigger.
You’d expect them to reassure clients, but truth is GOG will no longer be subsidized by CDPR and therefore it’s going to get worse for us somehow one way or another it’ll need to make money.
It’s a rare…condition
In this day and age
to read any good news
on the newspaper…page
Isn’t this part of a larger push to sell CDProjectRed, where GOG was an impediment?
I don’t really see the benefit, people saying now they can “focus” on developing games as if the small team handling GOG was ever an impediment; if anything they’ve lost a source of income that gave them more freedom to develop and publish games…