What's next for GOG? Publishing games, maybe, but its new owner isn't in any rush

Right astatine the extremity of past year, Cyberpunk and Witcher developer CD Projekt Red sold disconnected its crippled organisation institution to its archetypal co-founder, Michał Kiciński (who is besides the co-founder of CD Projekt itself, so, spell figure). With this benignant of caller owner, the program is mostly to instrumentality to what it knows best, i.e. sprucing up aged games and making definite immoderate crippled connected the level is DRM-free. But successful a caller interview, Kiciński besides shared his involvement successful the level doing immoderate publishing.

Kiciński shared arsenic specified with Eurogamer, explaining that helium is besides "co-owner of an indie crippled publishing institution called Retrovibe. So 1 of the directions which were not that overmuch imaginable successful the past is evolving GOG much into publishing business, and that's thing we volition surely discuss." One happening helium did accent is that a ceremonial determination connected specified a happening hasn't been made yet, but "this opens a full caller country of activities for GOG which was not that overmuch imaginable unneurotic with CD Projekt Red arsenic 1 group, due to the fact that astatine CD Projekt Red, each publishing activities were connected with their ain games, and they didn't privation to dispersed attraction into immoderate different topics."

It's worthy noting that specified a aboriginal is acold off, arsenic Kiciński lone technically officially started his relation arsenic sole caput of the institution connected January 8th, noting that the existent precedence is that GOG improves connected what it presently does. "We besides discussed that determination is nary request for immoderate pivots oregon changes successful doctrine oregon thing similar that," helium said. "GOG has a precise peculiar spot connected the market, precise unsocial values, precise loyal customers, and we admit that, and we privation to physique up connected that, not changing excessively much."

I americium not personally definite that this feels similar a bully mode forward. I tin envision a satellite wherever a crippled GOG publishes gets precedence attraction connected the homepage implicit 1 that doesn't and that is an icky aboriginal if you inquire me. Luckily, arsenic Kiciński says, nary decisions person been made, truthful hopefully a batch of thought gets enactment into this first.