There are even companies that still exist with "red numbers"...
Yet, for most of the companies there can never be "enough profit". GoG is doing okay... i would say a little bit in the green numbers, but it surely is not the big cash cow such as "the rest of CDPR". So naturally they say "CDPRs franchise stuff comes first... and GoG is some small side buisness". There is no reason to worry when it comes to the sheer numbers and in my mind the main culprit is just blunt "Incompetence"... yet they seem to fail getting enough of the employee they need.
Of course, US... the location of Steam/Epic is way more crowded with competent workers for such needs, so they have a advantage here; yet it only can become better for the GoG-environment. Money can only do "so and so much", but without the required people... the power is not endless.
Regarding broken site: Sometimes some posts simply are disappearing, for example on the new Fallout 4 announcement. Well, i slowly get used to it and i better should backup not only my games... the posts too.
In my mind, there can be no game distributor being able to become a cash cow as those entire data-management along with expensive servers is simply not free. Usually it is backed up by some "real income" mother company... in this case CDPR. Epic for example is backing it up with "Unreal 5 Engine" which is the cash cow and some more stuff... else they would be gone already. Steam is probably the only distributor that got so much might that they may be able to become sustainable without "some backer company"... yet it still is not cheap providing a powerful server infrastructure and most the coins is done with the sale of "big franchise-games", about the top 1-5% of all games. The "other games" will barely matter... they are just here in order to give the impression "there is real competition": The truth is... if we wipe out maybe 5% of the most profitable games (and hand them over to GoG only)... Steam may almost become bankrupt... unless they will get a backer at this point. And the "others"... well they already got a backer, yet just as i told; GoG is a bit in the green zone still, so no need to worry.
Post edited August 20, 2023 by Xeshra