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From the FAQ: > Is GOG financially unstable? No. GOG is stable and has had a really encouraging year. In fact, we’ve seen more enthusiasm from gamers towards o
by embedding-shape 11mo ago
From the FAQ:
> Is GOG financially unstable? No. GOG is stable and has had a really encouraging year. In fact, we’ve seen more enthusiasm from gamers towards our mission than ever before.
I'm really happy to hear this, as I always feared their hard stance on no-DRM would scare off publishers and developers, but seems that fear might have been overstated. This year I personally also started buying more games on GOG than Steam, even when they were available on Stream. Prior to 2025 I almost exclusively used Steam unless it wasn't available there, but now GOG is #1 :)
Glad it's moving in even better directions, thank you Team GOG!
- eterm 11mo agoI had the opposite takeaway. Companies with strong financial performance don't tend to use words like "encouraging". That is the language you get from companies that are in trouble and hoping for recovery. Talking about people's enthusiasm for their mission is just straight up dodging the question itself.
- Ekaros 11mo agoIf I read their income statement from Q3 correctly it is comparatively not doing great. 01.01.2025 to 30.09.2025 net profit 910 thousand PLN I think. 01.01.2024 to 30.09.2024 net profit 32 thousand PLN. With "from 1 January to 30 September 2025: 4.2365 PLN/EUR and from 1 January to 30 September 2024:4.3022 PLN/EUR." It is not that much. So splitting it off probably make sense for the CD Projekt.
- apetresc 11mo agoI'm not sure I understand your figures. What is "32 thousand PLN", surely their entire annual profit for all of 2024 was not literally 32K PLN (approx. 9K USD)? Is this measured in millions? And whatever they're measured in, surely 32K to 910K in the span of a year is considered excellent progress?
- Ekaros 11mo agoNo it was actually just circa 9 thousand Euros from GOG.COM. And it seems there was period of having potential loss of million PLN as well in Q3 of 2024 I think. So it looks quite variable based on which products release. See: https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/wp-content/uploads-en/2025/11/consolidated-financial-statement-of-the-cd-projekt-group-for-q3-2025.pdf https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/wp-content/uploads-en/2025/11/c... Starting from page 28.
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- bcye 11mo agoMaybe they are just heavily reinvesting?
- Ekaros 11mo agoI think reality is that being game retailer is harsh market if you are anyone else but Valve with Steam. Selling copies redeemed on Steam is workable, but seeing that pretty much all big publishers are back on Steam should tell a lot of state of the market. And GOG has bigger mind share than actual market share.
- Detrytus 11mo agoStill, making only 32k PLN ($9k) profit on 137M PLN ($38M) revenue seems like a really badly operated business.
- andriamanitra 11mo agoProfit is not an appropriate measure of how well a business is operated. I'm sure they have been prioritizing growth because the whole point of the platform is to introduce competition to Steam. Keeping the margins low (or even negative) is smart when the primary goal is not to make profit but to insure the parent company against monopolistic behavior.
- embedding-shape 11mo agohttps://www.cdprojekt.com/en/investors/result-center/q3-2025-earnings/ https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/investors/result-center/q3-2025... [has a bunch of files at the bottom too, for more data] > Consolidated net earnings during the reporting period stood at 193 million PLN – 2.5 times more than during the corresponding period of the previous year, which results in a net profitability of 55%. Maybe I don't understand "profits above all" sufficiently well as some of my peers, but that seems Good Enough to me.
- Ekaros 11mo agoOverall CD Projekt is doing well, but cut associated to GOG.COM is paltry as shown above.
- izacus 11mo agoNo company with an ounce of brain and a good accountant reports profit in eastern Europe :)
- JLO64 11mo agoPolska is in Central Europe tho
- izacus 11mo agoHaha, we all Slavs keep telling that to ourselves, don't we? :P
- juped 11mo agoEastern Europe starts at your home country's eastern border. E.g., if you're Russia, it's Japan and Alaska.
- SirHumphrey 11mo agoAnd Balkan on the southeastern.
- 71bw 11mo agoTo cite what might be deemed the lowest quality source possible: [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Europe
- embedding-shape 11mo agoYou'll find as many perspectives on what country belongs to East/West/North/South Europe as there are countries in Europe.
- rvba 11mo agoIs this taken from some LLM? The first two numbers perhaps make sense, the 4,3022 looks like EUR/ PLN exghange rate..
- embedding-shape 11mo agoI guess I trust them that if they would be in trouble, they'd say so, not say "GOG is stable". But I've been wrong before, could be in this situation too, I guess I'm more hoping that they wouldn't lie to their users in their face like that.
- deafpolygon 11mo agoI had the same takeaway -- in fact, I think it's CD Projekt who hopes to distance themselves from GOG.
- VoxPelli 11mo agoThis goes for publicly traded companies much more than privately owned ones. GOG is now becoming private like Valve rather than publicly traded.
- ekjhgkejhgk 11mo agoExactly, if you say that your company's financial performance has been "encouraging", that's not good.
- rasz 11mo ago>>a really encouraging year This years DOScember was really huge. Tons of streamers and viewers on Twitch for example, retro gaming is picking up steam (/s).
- eleveriven 11mo agoThere's clearly a real segment of players who value ownership and longevity enough to vote with their wallets
- npodbielski 11mo agoI am happy that deal with Amazon didn't hurt them. Doing business with such big corp is probably not good for anyone.