what would you say is Gog's upkeep? how much does it cost for Gog to stay in business, and about how much would you say Gog makes in a month, year, day whatever.

I'm just wondering, becuase i would think Gog would be the ultimate business, becuase your product is digital so you don't have to pay for making it, upkeeping it, anything like that. it costs you nothing!


correct me if i'm wrong.

Yeah, and all servers grow on trees :P

Employees do too.

Aren't the servers located in Gibraltar or somewhere like that?

I say 2.50 euros a month. That is everything, staff, servers and those pink little donkeys in the corner

distribution rights and legal fees also

not to forget rent of offices, taxes....

It's probably two guys in their mum's basement throwing cracks on games, and they just fooled everyone that they are some big professional company

Cypress, I think.

There are no trees in Cyprus and Gibraltar?

Digital distribution is the way of the future, if anyone distributor is going to go out of business first it's the old brick-and-mortar retailers like Gamespot/EB Games etc. Plus GOG was the "first" (not counting DotEmu which isn't well known) DD site is offer games completely DRM-free, and DRM-free is definitely the way of the future too with more and more gamers every day demanding the reduction (of eventual end) of DRM on games.

So I would say as long as games continue to be made, GOG's future is assured.

That doesn't mean they have a license to slack off getting all the old games here though...

The thing is though, anyone can add games and do the drm free thing. There are many competitors, and you must have seen companies in the past do anything it takes to beat their competition.

Perhaps GOG and Steam will be the equivalent of ATI and Nvidia in terms of market share. It could also be possible that GOG may lose out to Steam, Gamersgate, Dotemu, Origin, Desura, Green man gaming, the list of competitors goes on.

Of course, which is why GOG always needs something to distinguish itself from potential competitors. Steam has the client with integrated multiplayer support for Valve games, plus integrated community and workshop support for modding.

GOG does have the "old" games thing to distinguish itself, no other site really has the old DOS games, also GOG could do well by promoting itself as selling "old-school" games like retro-ish indie games or just games that don't fit into the AAA-game mold. If this stuff on Kickstarter with DFA, Wasteland 2, Project Eternity turns out to be a real resurgence in old-style games, GOG could do well by riding the wave of this new market.

That makes me think of exclusives. Could you imagine if Steam, Gamersgate and GOG were like the console era of Xbox, Playstation and Nintendo, with exclusives for each platform. Would it be a wise move, or would they lose out if they had exclusives?

As long as we, The DRM free-loving gamer are here to support them, I'm pretty sure that they can sleep happily at night.

Hey, I could volunteer myself as GOG's office janitor, free of charge if they want to cut down with the expenses.