It seems that the DRM-free digital game store, which is owned by CD Projekt, is also in trouble.

Kotaku reports that GOG silently has fired about twelve people, which ended up being confirmed by CD Projekt: „Letting people go is never easy. We have been rearranging certain teams since October 2018, affecting in closing around a dozen positions last week. At the same time, since the process started we have welcomed nearly twice as many new team members, and currently, hold 20 open positions.”

However, an anonymous GOG employee paints an even darker tone of the internal situation: „We were told it’s a financial decision. GOG’s revenue couldn’t keep up with growth, the fact that we’re dangerously close to being in the red has come up in the past few months, and the market’s move towards higher [developer] revenue shares have, or will, affect the bottom line as well. I mean, it’s just an odd situation, like things got really desperate really fast. I know that February was a really bad month, but January, on the other hand, was excellent. We were in the middle of a general restructuring, moving some teams around, not unprecedented. But layoffs that big have never happened before.”

The employee hinted at Epic Games Store with that revenue – they give 88% of it to the developer/publisher, unlike Steam, which (up to a certain revenue amount) hands just 70%. So GOG might be in some trouble, which is why it might be a good idea to look around on their site. Their installers can be fully downloaded, require no client or an Internet connection either…

Source: WCCFTech