Here's the link: https://kotaku.com/facing-financial-pressures-gog-quietly-lays-off-at-lea-1832879826

Should I be worried?

I know I am.

So, GOG needs more revenue? Why shouldn't we start spending to create revenue? I guess Zeogold needs some keys for his giveaway.

Sad news for sure but I'm sure they will manage.

Yes, Layoffs are rarely a good sign, this is indicative of potentially serious problems with GOG and its long term health,I would start keeping your favorites installers backed up, There could be a chance they can improve. but it sounds like they are nearing the red and that is not good.

edit: spelling and a bit of clarification.

Just what we needed, the threat of financial troubles looming over my favorite storefront.

I heard that GOG was not so profitable and Cyberpunk developement took so long and cost much resources and cash I wouldn't be surprised if situation were real, even when staff would deny that.

Ok guys, we rehearsed this!

Seriously though, I wouldn't start writing a eulogy just yet. Sure it's not good news, but it's not the end of the world either. Lay offs happen, and the industry is obviously going through some upheaval right now, so this isn't exactly mindblowing.

And having backups of your favourite games is never a bad idea, but even if the worst should happen, it's not like they will just shut down overnight. You don't have to rush to your library like it's about to disappear if you blink. Calm your tits everybody.

Maybe this will get CD Projekt to pay a some attention to the store for once, they are hardly a small company anymore.

Not a good sign. :(
Time to download/backup whole shelf?

All gog.com needs to do is stop GOG Connect.

PC gamers who want the PC versions of the video games that they have on Steam should purchase them again from gog.com if they want those video games, not be free loaders.

Financial pressure, you say? Why do I feel like a certain shadow's glare is currently fixated upon this place?

@Tfishell, rehearsal is over, buddy. It's time for some quality doomsaying. Go out there and kick their asses!

I always download installers of every game I buy on GOG so I'm safe at least.

https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/wp-content/uploads-en/2018/11/condensed_financial_statement_q3_2018.pdf

Refer to page 31 of the statement where CD Project Red (all the Witcher stuff) is separated out from GOG (the store)

GOG was already running in the red for Q1-Q3 already. Its obvious Q4 was not helping. I expect once the annual report comes out it will show Q4 was bad. That wont be otu till mid-end March. But expect the numbers to be bad for GOG specficially

The only thing keeping CDProject afloat right now is whoring out Geralt to every company they can find. Wonder why Geralt is making 'cameos' everywhere? Yeah that's why. Because GOG isnt making money and CDPRoject's Witcher IP is the only thing actually making money

Remember that CD Projekt is a publicly traded company. And investors dont care about 'mission statements' about GOG. They want ROI. They want profit. They want money. If GOG's 'mission statement's are not making money, then they're gonna either cut GOG, or change the mission statements. That means likely:

1) Cyperbunk is gonna be GOG exclusive. That's even assuming GOG stays afloat long enough though. If they can then this is pretty much 100% gonna happen. Though this would be a fairly temporary fix, as again the cant sustain the initial 'push' after Cyperpunk without other titles.

2) Galaxy is dying. They no longer have the financials to play the 'long' game with Galaxy. Something they effectively already wasted 3 years on. They'll have no way to justify putting resources into galaxy when the entire subsidiary is dying.

3) GOG needs to fix their update process. Right now devs are jumping GOG (Long dark) because GOG is basically gate keeping everything and making patches look unattractive. GOG needs to get the hell out of the way of devs because its making them lose revenue. THey can already gate keep games at the front end, they have to stop playing patch nanny once approved.

4) Galaxy becomes mandatory. Of course this is contradicting #2 but I can see a push to make the Galaxy client mandatory for new games thus making 'stickiness' of GOG higher when compared to Steam/Epic. Remember we are now abandoning all 'core principles' because the company is in the red and stuff like that is no longer relevant to execs and shareholders.

Stuff off the top of my head

It's time to kick bubblegum and chew ass!

Seriously though this sucks. I'd have figured after all this time GOG wouldn't be in such a rough spot.