I'd like to hear an official word from a blue here on the forum about the real status of GOG. I don't trust Kotaku at all.

GOG will die if we let it die. Reigning back your spending here will only accelerate their decline. :/

If anything, this news makes me evaluate my approach to buying games so far - shoestring budget, trying to only buy when on sale, etc. Maybe I've been focusing too much on my own pocket and not looking at the big picture. It's easy to forget devs and storefronts rely on your spending habits, too.

Why would they? Offline DRM-free installers, remember? If GOG really was to go out of business it would actually be all the more reason to buy all the games you want from here right now.
Yes, because if a company is trouble but trying to stay afloat they will surely make a truthfull statement about all their woes, and not just a "everything is ship-shape and Bristol fashion" PR statement.

Gog under pressure,no longer with my solution.Charge $10 a year for membership to use the forum:)

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Rumors will be rumors, until something official pops up I will am not going to worry about it and do the only thing I can and have been doing for the past years, as a fan and customer, which is buying my games from this storefront and preferring it over others. DRM-Free always wins in the long run even if the apocalypse happens.

Thanks for the informative post. I remember in the last quarter or two, many people on this board would say things like, "don't worry, it's normal for a company to lose money in a quarter, it's no problem and there's nothing to worry about.."

And now that same argument has slightly morphed, into "it's normal for companies to lay people off, it's no problem and there's nothing to worry about."

For how long can such type of thinking remain realistic?

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Microsoft, EA, Ubi, those are like heavy weight boxers. They can take their hits, sway a little, and keep on fighting. CD Project is a feather weight thrown into the ring. They can jab, dodge, weave and duck and put up a good show. But one hit and they go down. The head company better pray that Cyberpunk is another huge hit, because if not it will go like this..."Hello Microsoft, is that you? It's CDPR. Yes, we hear you're still looking for studios...have we got a deal for you..." Because it appears there's no GOG revenue to fall back on.

Well I feel there has to be some law to fall back on because I have 500+ games in my library, and if this whole website shutdown, I lose my games and thus possibly hundreds and thousands of dollars worth of purchases.

So either they completely archive this whole site for the customers that have a library, or they pay back every customer all the money they have spent over the years in this site, or at least a flat payment of 1000 dollars to every longtime customer.

And people would say, "Hey just download all the offline installers"

Easier said then done. 500+ installers to get, and I don't think my PC has enough space to hold them all :P

I am in the same situation as you.

Same here, If its on GOG i buy from here. Regardless of price or sale, if i want it and its here I buy it. Im really looking forward to Decent, System Shock, Biomutant, Fade to Silence, Iron Harvest and EITR there are a bunch more but thouse are my big ones..

Cyberpunk goes without saying too <3

You know what would be great? If right about now GOG decided to fix the website with another site shutdown ala September 2010.

Good times.

At 496 folders (games) I have 3,468 files coming in at 1.77 TB of space. I actively archive backup ad update my off-line collection once a week.

The biggest worry is (worst case here) if GOG goes down, since were not in the 90's or even early 00's we will never see patches to our games.

But this is still better then Steam, or Greenman or Any of the others... I once had a ton of games from ShinyLoot do you even remember them gone and no way to download... Gamergate i had 248 games from them mainly from a single publisher and they left no more form them... thankfully I archived them. its a weird world we live in... we must curate our lives... each folder is a game for me to cheerish and buy storage for and protect. I never know when i wont have it around to be part of my life anymore. And in the end how long will i want to play these games?

This is a nice wakw up call to cheerish what i have and not worry so much about what the future will bring. Except i better see that sexy new Grim Dawn Expansion soon!