I'm asking a very serious question here. I'm not looking to get into drama or anything like that. But profits were low last year for GOG and CDPR just lost a billion dollars, not to mention their stock prices sinking. Next we have the impending lawsuit.

How could this effect GOG? Do I need to mass download all of my games just in case this place goes down? I'm very worried about this because I use the site to primarily buy games.

Many articles are stating that after refunds CDP still sold 13 Million copies of CP2077 so that does give them a fair amount of money right there if all those copies sold at the current base price and factoring production and such.

It just depends on how things end up, The lawsuit is being brought on by investors so they may not want to bring the company down completely as they do have investments and stock.

nah

Having backups is a good thing if you can manage/afford it, but as of right this moment I wouldn't panic too much about it. There's just a lot of drama in the air, and the financial situation isn't really all that dire.

I doubt the lawsuit will cause GOG to fail. Having said that backing up is always a good idea (not just games, it's a good habit to get into in general for all your personal data) and if you "backup as you go", then you eliminate any mad rush and don't even notice the 'effort' involved.

Nothing lasts forever. You should make it a priority to backup your offline installers onto a hard disk drive as a rule.

I mean, it wouldn't hurt to back up your games, if you have the space to do so. But businesses get sued all the time; I doubt that this is really such a big deal.

I highly recommend backing up all your games because... DotEmu, Desura, etc.

I don't think lawsuits are going to shut anything down, because in the long run it would be better to keep companies generating profit than close them down. Of course, business and legal world doesn't always take the most logical route.

Anyway, if there will be any real consequences, my guess is that GOG would be separated from the game developing company and CD Projekt family, because it would be weird to kill two companies when only one is actually being targeted.

It would actually be a good thing to separate GOG from the rest and make it a niche store that it once was. Some will disagree, but that's my opinion. GOG would also benefit from being someone's primary business, rather than being a side project of a bigger company.

They didn’t lose a billion dollars. Their stock lost a billion dollars of market capitalization. Those aren’t the same thing. Even with the refunds they’ve cleared their costs on production and marketing for cyberpunk, at least as reported so far. That means the worst case scenario for them is breaking even, but more likely turning a small profit in the short term. The long term worst case scenario is that their reputation is hurt so badly that future projects don’t make money, but based on the fact that similar terrible launches for other brands haven’t killed them, I view that as unlikely.

As much as people seem to harp on GOG's current way of doing things, the fact still stands that your games are totally safe even if GOG goes down because you've got full ownership of everything you buy on here (please read the fine print about DLC and such that are DRM'd even on GOG copies of games).

Yeah, I guess it'd generally be a good idea to download the backup installers for every game you buy. That's what I do anyway, I just throw every installer on my external hard drives.

As for CDPR's financial troubles... If anything, I feel like GOG might get sold rather than just shut down, but I don't know what I am talking about. Weren't they a separate entity prior to being bought by CDPR? Not sure how this kind of stuff works out.

Still, if even just 1 million of all the copies of Cyberpunk were sold on GOG, that alone should keep this company afloat since 100% of the money went to them directly, right? Add to that the ridiculous Collector's Edition that was sold out everywhere, the deals with partners like Microsoft (there was that custom Cyberpunk Xbox, wasn't there?)... I think CDPR is doing just fine.

Bad PR doesn't equal a loss in money, and though investors are pulling out right now, they'll come back probably. That's how it works doesn't it?

Signed, someone who doesn't actually know how it works.

Sure do. That's always been a risk. GOG's always been on thin ice financially AFAIK. And their terrible decisions this year have just been helping the ship sink even faster than ever, most likely.

I wouldn't say "the lawsuit" has a chance of shutting down GOG.

But the hundreds or thousands or tens of thousands of customers who will no longer buy from GOG due to their decision to ban Devotion to appease the CCP...and also because they decided to start including DRM in their singleplayer games, and directly selling EGS-DRM'ed games...those things might well shut down GOG.

Is the 'Lawsuit' more than people farting at the sky and hoping for a tornado? (Those throwing out 'possible' lawsuits without an actual one being done)

it's the investors doing the suing this time, so they're in trouble as far i'm concerned.

It's a "we are looking into it" situation overblown by YouTube talking heads that need drama to keep there channels alive.

It' literally one guy claiming to be a lawyer in on a law forum in Poland.