| ▲ | embedding-shape 5 hours 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! |
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| ▲ | eterm 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I 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. |
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| ▲ | Ekaros 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | If 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. | | |
| ▲ | embedding-shape 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | 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 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Overall CD Projekt is doing well, but cut associated to GOG.COM is paltry as shown above. |
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| ▲ | apetresc 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I'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 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | No 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/c... Starting from page 28. | | |
| ▲ | bcye 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Maybe they are just heavily reinvesting? | | |
| ▲ | Ekaros 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I 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 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Still, making only 32k PLN ($9k) profit on 137M PLN ($38M) revenue seems like a really badly operated business. | | |
| ▲ | andriamanitra an hour ago | parent [-] | | Profit 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. |
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| ▲ | izacus 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | No company with an ounce of brain and a good accountant reports profit in eastern Europe :) | | | |
| ▲ | rvba 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Is this taken from some LLM? The first two numbers perhaps make sense, the 4,3022 looks like EUR/ PLN exghange rate.. |
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| ▲ | embedding-shape 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I 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. | |
| ▲ | VoxPelli 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | This goes for publicly traded companies much more than privately owned ones. GOG is now becoming private like Valve rather than publicly traded. | |
| ▲ | deafpolygon 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I had the same takeaway -- in fact, I think it's CD Projekt who hopes to distance themselves from GOG. |
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| ▲ | rasz 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| >>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). |
