The CD Projekt-owned PC gaming storefront GOG simply launched a “info and figures” breakdown of 2022 in an official weblog put up (opens in new tab). The upshot? GOG skilled regular progress in its person base and library whereas additionally turning a tidy $1.2 million revenue. It is a heartening turnaround to see because the service truly misplaced cash—$1.15 million to be precise—the earlier yr.
GOG noticed a near-20% enlargement of its person base final yr, although curiously the variety of energetic GOG Galaxy (the service’s desktop consumer) customers merely remained regular. It is powerful getting round launcher fatigue nowadays, and GOG Galaxy just isn’t a requirement to make use of the storefront—you should buy and obtain these video games off the GOG web site.
GOG shared a income chart that exhibits simply how a lot of a lopsided banner yr 2020 was for the service, an unprecedented and up to now unmatched efficiency that GOG chalks as much as the discharge of Cyberpunk 2077 and the final increase within the business because of home-bound pandemic gaming. That being mentioned, its income now remains to be considerably greater than earlier than the pandemic.
General income for GOG appears to have stayed flat between 2021 and ’22, which signifies to me that the structural adjustments GOG undertook paid off. On the finish of 2021 the service publicly re-committed to DRM-free (opens in new tab), curated distribution after it confronted criticism for promoting the always-online Hitman 3. Nonetheless, separating GOG from the Gwent Consortium and CD Projekt’s different on-line providers (and their related prices) at round that point appears to have had a much bigger affect, reversing the loss and bringing the service into the inexperienced with little change to total income.
As for a way this impacts us avid gamers, I am simply blissful that GOG is doing nicely, with the form of wholesome financials that may let it hold doing its factor: making traditional PC gaming extensively accessible (opens in new tab) and accessible. That is one non-Steam launcher I am completely blissful to have on my desktop. In any case, the place else am I supposed to search out The Thriller of the Druids, The Temple of Elemental Evil, and Doom 64 multi function place?
