GOG had 3 years ot be a 'competitor to steam' 3 years of wasting their opportunity wiht GOG galaxy and the wticher 3.

They had a chance to actually do that and failed spectacularly, with a client that can charitably be called 'steam from 5 years ago', and with no Steamworks equivalent API system to realistically make a dent into Steam.

Now their business model is under fire. The Witcher3 well is drying out as shown by YOY decreases in revenue. Thronebreaker which woudl have been a good stop-gap measure before Cyberpunk is a dud. Now GOG is bleeding money, and doesn't have a 1st party title to fall back on for revenues. This is on top of Epic forcing their 30% margins to be reduced which came at the worst possible time, inbtween the releases of Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk and with the failure of THronebreaker.

GOG needs to cut expenses. Their best bet woudl be to stop their gate keeping of games and patches and support of games. Getting more titles on to GOG is a better way to increase sales, they already have the CDN infrastructure so adding games to sell is minimal cost increase but provides for revenue growth. Again GOG might only sell 100 copies of Grimoire, but that's still $1000 in revenue they're NOT making. Now multiply that by other titles they keep refusing. And you can get revenue growth from lots of small titles, rather htan relying on a minimum floor of revenue per game before it gets approved. You don't have to 'accept everything' but even a slightly looser protocol means more content, means more sales. Especially if the supposed 'way to make money' is to 'be niche'.

Again accept more titles, which will bring more revenue. Get rid of being 'outsourced tech support' for your games, no one else does this and its killing their bottom line both from a revenue and expense perspective. Your USP can still be basically DRM free.

Since they're already being gate keepers, a better business that fits that model woudl be to become publishers like Humble and GMG.

GOG needs a better business straegy than 'we hope cyperbunk comes out in 2019'

Grimoire just cracked 800 wishlist votes!

Why is it not here yet? Instead of focusing on the game, people keep whining about Cleve. They keep saying things like "No wonder gog refused this game, you wouldn't want *that guy* in your forum!" Guess what? Cleve already posted in this forum. In this very thread. The world didn't end. Neither will the world end if gog fulfills those 800 wishlist votes and releases a game that people actually want here.

Growth means lots if the reason you're in the toilet is one time capital expenditures. So if they have a 20% growth in revenue that is sustained and an expense which is essentially a one time expense, say hiring a bunch of contractors to help with a major development contract. Then they could have a loss for a couple quarters due to temporary increases in expenses but come out ahead in the end. That shouldn't be hard to follow.
Even if wishlist votes were the sole contributor to their decision making process, does 800 votes even crack the top thousand games on the wishlist?

Haha, I'm pretty sure Cleve has burned that bridge by this point. That thread on RPGcodex is a great example of how not to treat potential business partners.

While he does come across as someone who might hold a grudge for quite some time that's still just speculation. Always better to hear from someone themselves whether or not bridges have been irrevocably burned.

I'm still up for purchasing Grimoire on GoG, should it come here eventually.
Will buy 2 copies, in fact .

That's not quite what that expression means. When I say he's burned that bridge I don't mean he's bearing a grudge, I mean GOG will be. Whatever reason they didn't want to sell Grimoire before, they're almost certainly not going to want to go into business with him now.

I don't know about that.
Of the two involved parties I'd consider GoG the more likely one to be professional, let bygones be bygones and make the first step towards renegotiations. That is IF there's actually any bad blood between the parties in the first place.