tfishell: Another discussion, on Reddit:

Blastprocessor42: Do you just like cherry-picking the most negative comments you can find?

Ancient-Red-Dragon: They absolutely should not do that.

"Curation" is and always has been a useless feature that both:

a) wastes GOG's money via GOG paying curators to perform an absolutely useless task

b) repels consumers from buying games that they would have bought from GOG, but cannot do so, because GOG's 'curators' banned those games for no good reason.

'Curation' should be the #1 first thing on GOG's chopping block as they "reorganize" the GOG business.

Doubling-down on 'curation,' however, as that statement indicates they intend to do, is an absolutely horrible idea.

If they keep making bad decisions like that, to double-down on curation, and to misrepresent curation as if it's a core reason as to why people buy from GOG, then they will continue to lose money, and soon the "reorganization" talk will turn into the declaration of bankruptcy on GOG's part.

Ancient-Red-Dragon: My interpretation of GOG saying:

a) they are going to "reorganize" their business and
b) the continued & habitual financial losses that GOG takes on most quarters are a "challenge"

...is that CDPR will continue to let GOG operate for a while longer to see if they can change things in order to start making profits with GOG.

But IMO, the connotation behind that PR speak is that they are also implying they will probably close GOG down eventually if GOG keeps failing to make profit.

I'd say it's highly possible that GOG might shut down in the next 12 months. Hopefully that doesn't happen, but it certainly is a reasonable possibility that could happen.

The time for everyone to start backing up their libraries is right now.

Gersen: Because it uses Galaxy infrastructure.

DebbieL: I actually think that going ‘back to basics’, as it were, would be a tremendously good thing for GOG. I’m baffled by their apparent desire to ‘compete’ with Steam by becoming more and more Steam-like, rather than focussing on their own unique selling points such as DRM-free. All it seems to have achieved is pissing off their long-time fans, leading some to leave the site altogether, and embroiling them in one PR disaster after another.

Blastprocessor42: Unsurprising. Resetera loves to get angry about all kinds of inconsequential crap. I wouldn't worry about that one.

Kelefane: Adapt or die.

tfishell: Another discussion, on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/r4zxa0/cd_projekt_information_details_from_latest/

Gsom900: What an awful way to start a day =(
But i see where its coming from:
1) Focus on Galaxy and dropping support for win7 for it.
2) Galaxy 2.0 is a fun idea but still requires you to have all the stores installed and i'm not that amnesiac to forget which game i have on which store. Forums, store etc have been stuck in development forever. Not that its a bad thing, i like minimalistic approach, but these forums are really not that comfortable to use and social features of gog are of no use. Not even comparing to Steam, its just no good on its own.
3) CP77 fiasco. Guess i wasn't the only one who expected the 'personal responsibility' game, not what got released at the end. If im not mistaken the game still cant be considered 100% playable. And no one bothers.
4) Really big brain move on recent DRM changes. More and more games require having galaxy installed, some games have straight DRM included, i immediately skip anything with that, sorry.

Being a niche store at the heart, sooner or later you'll satisfy the need of your niche customers. Im pretty sure everyone now has all the classics bought and several modern classics as well, witcher series included. New big games suck, and there are no 'new' old games for obvious reason.

Gotta focus on service, maybe even open-source OSs'. Also CP77 is still recoverable, if no mans sky could do it, CDPR can as well. I hope it all turns out well for all of us.

Gsom900: Of course, i just shit on modern games all day without trying or playing them. Sure.

Bluddy: It's very hard to figure out what strategy can work for GOG at this point. They have a few small user bases, each of which benefits from some features the store provides. You have the die-hard DRM-free people, the people who successfully use Galaxy 2.0 for all their platforms, the people who like buying the older games because of better support than Steam, etc. In the meantime, new AAA releases (and even older ones) that people buy in massive quantities mostly don't arrive here, or arrive so late that they're not relevant. Indie devs care less about DRM but often aren't allowed in, or need to support GOG's proprietary APIs, which is just too much work for such a tiny store.

Fuz: Stopped buying here when they removed manual sorting of our libraries.
That was something very important to me, and I spent hours organizing my collection - all thrown in the trash.
Not gonna come back until they revert that change.

Enebias: So, in substance, how are things going for the store?
I have a hard time sorting opinions from facts.