Sorry I posted this in other thread, I didn´t seen before this post. I will copy and paste my feedback here:

On my personal side if it benefits GOG in any way, and as huge consumer here with a library bigger that I could ever play, I will say why in the last few years I am buying much less in the website, and some reasons are surprisingly not related to any GOG bad management, but to the market itself, BUT may also bring some clear light about what was always my interest here.

Please take all this as constructive feedback:

Reasons why I still buy here:

- I don´t like the actual PC age, I like the golden PC age, and GOG has much of that.
- I don´t need a f... store browser to play the games, sometimes for me STEAM like UI are an advantage some others is NOT. Sometimes I just want to play a game over windows and that´s it. (Better without DRM but is not my main reason) In fact I am growing VERY TIRED of having half a dozen of APPs to load my PC games and is one of the reasons I barely play PC lately.
- Games that are really and still PC oriented, specially RPGs like Divinity, Pillars of Eternity, Disco Elysium... etc....and anything that smells old Baldur´s Gate style is a must buy for me here. (nBut not BG3, that I rather prefer a console version)
- Last but not less important, GOOD OLD GAMES, I instantly bought recently all the STAR-TREK classic releases, as I cannot find those games anywhere else... but be fast, because releases as QUAKE, STARWARS games like Racer or Jedi Outcast on consoles or other platforms should tell you that maybe your "niche" was the way to go.

Reasons why I am buying less here:

- Triple A games for me are a must have in consoles, I own a very high end MSI but I don´t like to play Triple A games anymore on PC. So Xbox Series X and PS5 eat my sales from here, and even from STEAM.
- Nintendo Switch literally made me stop buying INDIE games on PC.
- My game libraries are way too big, In the last few years I became way more picky.

This is a basic problem of the gaming industry. Games (unlike books and movies) are far too much content to consume in any reasonable amount of time, meaning that most of us have more games than we could ever play. And yet FOMO (fear of missing out) on the latest big hit keeps game sales high on most platforms.

My guess is they're all confidently betting on Cyberpunk 2077 becoming a massive success and giving them a huge cash infusion to support the Galaxy project for the foreseeable future.

The consumer being caught by hype and marketing, not exactly the industry's issues but more a lack of control from the purchaser. The influencer market has aced this feeling of FOMO though

yes , they did this so well , works same for mobiles movies music etc.
when they buy the product they shouldnt instantly switch their hype to the next thing coming soon

Sorry, my reading skills are fine thank you. The information you provided:
Modding. Modding keeps games alive. A partnership with any number of modding platforms would be a massive boon.
Mentions nothing about specific sites, so I just assumed the big ones. Mod.io specifically is pretty new, I only heard about it a couple of times on moddb when it was highlighted in a news story, I have never used it or know anyone who has. TBH without looking into it further I dont see what benefit that has over moddb, you simply download a file from there do you not, at least that is what I see.
So in terms of resource for this, a stretched gog who cant' support any of their current items will be fully supporting and developing for this platform, which will be completely for free?
Also, not sure how good that is, I mean I wouldnt want to use Nexusmods Vortex or whatever it is called now.
Oh, just one other thing, looking at that site, the first page has:
"Host, moderate, monetize, brand & grow your creator community with mod.io. Get started today!"
That in itself pastes red flags across my eyeballs. Creation Club/Workshop tried that to much success from memory, thats why you can't find half the mods for ES games anymore.

yeah most of these suggestions would just plain fail when they see they have 0 capital for development/support
the only changes gog can make which requires minimal money imho
like drop twitter , who uses twitter anyway ?:O

It seems you are only thinking about this now, whereas in reality, if GOG closing down worries you, you should have been backing up all along, and not to your PC either, but to a couple of external drives at least. Drives can die anytime, without warning.

I've made it a point to always download as soon as possible after purchase, and to always make sure I have enough money for backup drives. All that money spent on games is potentially wasted if you aren't prepared to also spend money on backup drives. One should always factor in the cost of such insurance when buying.

As for downloading (backup) scripts, there are a few available here through the forum.

gogrepo.py - requires that script and having Python installed.

gogcli.exe - doesn't require Python, just that executable.

I have built Windows GUIs for those two.
There are others but I haven't tried them, and they have a Linux requirement.

Answering your reply from the other thread that got closed.

Dude, online gaming stores got a huge boost during the pandemic, suddenly people started spending way more money on videogames and digital goods in general than ever before. I am not making this up, I work with this stuff but if you don't believe me you can research it yourself, there's a ton of information out there already about changes in consumer habits during the pandemic.

So the notion that GOG is doing worse than before when everyone is doing better than ever... it's very troubling. That's all I have to say.

The boost from COVID happened in 2020 and it shows. The 6% increase in sales in 2021 has nothing to do with COVID.

GOG is doing fine. Naysayers tend to not know what they're talking about, especially when they're as negative as I've seen you being for months now. You've proven that you're literally looking for every opportunity to complain or claim the sky is falling... which, sadly enough, is a trait I see among this community more often than we should.

Is anyone else surprised, horrified and amused at the fact that the profits and losses for GOG fluctuate between +28k euro and -1M euro quartely?

How tiny is GOG really?

"However, despite slight revenue gains year-over-year, the CD Projekt-owned game selling website GOG.com posted a loss of 4.8 million PLN on revenue of 41.8 million PLN. For context, GOG.com saw 40.5 million in revenue and 130,000 in profit for the same period in 2020."

A quarterly revenue of only 9M euros.

wtf

backing shit up as we speak. abandon ship. and hope.

You answered your own question from the first paragraph, with the second paragraph. The argument some of us are making is that GOG has limited resources and is supposedly struggling, thus the resources should be very carefully allocated in order to ensure GOG survives and thrives. This does not necessarily mean pursuing one course of action forever; rather, it is perhaps about getting up out of a hole first and then reassessing after the fact. To take a more neutral example I mentioned earlier, a user suggested GOG could perhaps retry selling DRM-free movies. At face value there is no inherent "problem" with DRM-free movies; however, given the current situation, it seems perhaps a poor allocation of resources. The argument would be that, for now, focus on the basics, and then maybe in a year or two's time consider branching out into such features/areas. Does that make sense? Personally, I would go further as I say a client in the form of Galaxy is incompatible with DRM-free gaming since the design is to get everyone logged-in online (this runs counter to offline access to games). "DRM-free gaming" is a coherent concept; an "optional" client that is required for various content access "but it's still 'DRM-free'" is not a coherent concept. GOG needs a coherent and barebones vision, at least for right now, imo.

I guess this means less Japanese games; which is literally the only thing I care about.

Especially the upcoming Trails games. ;_;

Wait, you've been registered since almost 10 years on GOG, and only today you found out that GOG is a niche store?

They have always been small, but actually since they've started they had a rather steady grow. For me the volume of GOGs business activities is not the most concerning factor when viewing their current situation. Of course there are others.

The trails games will be here ...There are even coming soon pages already available...