CDPR’s recent financial report stated that its GOG platform will be reorganized in the future to focus on its core business content. Earlier news said it had been losing money. GOG was launched as Good Old Games in 2008, focusing on carefully selected games without DRM encryption. After that, this online game store gradually grew and became more like traditional game stores such as Steam and Epic Game Mall.
However, in the CDPR 2021 third-quarter revenue presentation, it was revealed that the GOG platform has been losing money, with a year-to-date loss of US$2.21 million. The profit in the same period last year was US$1.37 million. In order to solve this problem, CDPR Chief Financial Officer Piotr Nielubowicz stated in the introduction that GOG will carry out some restructuring and reforms in the future to restore it to its original profitable and popular state.
Nielubowica said: As far as GOG is concerned, its performance is indeed a challenge, and we have recently taken steps to improve its financial situation. First of all, we have decided that GOG should focus more on its core business activities, which means providing carefully selected games with its unique DRM-free concept. According to this approach, the structure of the team will change.
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According to Nielubowicz, some GOG developers who have been working on online solutions will move to other parts of the company. GOG will also leave the Kwent Club, a project jointly run by many departments of CDPR, which is based on the Witcher series of card game derivative products, Kwent card. This means that it will neither bear part of its costs nor receive the corresponding revenue share related to the project, Nielubowicz explained.
He concluded: In addition to all these changes that we initiated by organizing GOG’s operations, we believe that all the changes we are introducing will enable GOG to focus more on its core business and improve its financial efficiency in 2022. In CDPR’s financial report, the company claimed that the next-generation versions of Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3 are still expected to be released in the first quarter of 2022 and the second quarter of 2022, respectively.