You're suggesting that after we've killed all the non-gamers, we won't use GOG anymore? Is this because we'd make all games free for everyone :)!!!

No, gamer genocide is the dark time when gamers will be hunted down and slaughtered like cattle in the streets.
I explained the scenario in this thread:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/what_would_you_do_if_there_was_a_gamer_genocide/page1

Well, this was a trip.

GOG learned soon that offering 'only the classics' wasn't going to grow the business once the low hanging fruit was exhausted. Getting the not-so-easy titles was going to take more time and they needed the cash flow. I don't begrudge them for changing up their business model. Sure, things had to change to accommodate that model. Unfortunately, the elastic banded snapped and things took some pretty sharp turns.

Anywho, I think they'll eventually catch up. As long as they're offering an alternative (a la DRM Free), then that gives them the competing edge so they don't blur into just another online store front.

Ridiculous, A fully trained gamer, with the keyboard as his ally, defeated? None could stand against such a force.

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As long as I am here.

I honestly don't know; I'm not the most... practical person around, and I don't really understand most of the ways the world works, so my business insights on this matter are practically worthless. Going from stuff I hear and find online, though, GOG seems to be doing just fine, right now; there was a time when they were actually making their umbrella company, CD Projekt Group, more money than CD Projekt RED themselves (I don't know if that's still the case, I haven't looked into that in a while). Obviously, they're nowhere near as big as Steam, but I think we need to leave Steam out of the equation when discussing this, because it's not really fair to compare the behemoth monopoly Steam holds to the relatively small market of GOG. If we do that, GOG's market share in the video game digital distribution sure looks healthy -- and it's growing, it would seem.

I think that GOG will be in business for as long as they have clever people managing operations, and for as long as they manage to stay relevant and doing something different that sets them apart from other digital stores. This is to say, as long as they remain DRM-free, their Support working relatively good like it has always been, as long as they manage to sell games (oldies, indies, AA, AAA alike) that people care about and will buy but remain a curated store -- with all the good and the bad that comes along with that --, I think they have everything to keep growing, and they'll probably still be around a decade from now (I'm also expecting Cyberpunk 2077 to be a HUGE boost to GOG's sales and exposure, just like Witcher 3 was, before).

If, for some reason, GOG goes the way of the dodo "soon", at least they're a DRM-free store, and hopefully they pull a "Desura" move, and warn their customers in advance, so that those who don't have backups of their installers can download and save them for posterity. If you ask me, though, there are more chances of my house catching fire and me losing everything that's in my PC and HDDs, than GOG going out of business in the next 5 or so years.

As a publically traded company, CD Project could be bought out at any time. And if that happens, gOg as we know it could close shop.or morph into something very different.

So, no telling.

... twenty seconds into the future ...

It's publicly traded, but the majority shareholders are the founders. Unless they all sell, a hostile takeover is impossible.

Then possibly a dot-bomb-era cash out / non-hostile takeover via shareholder vote or stock sale. Either way, could happen at any time and there's no telling what new owners would do with the place.

Not trying to sound alarmist or anything. Just that it could happen whenever, and we have no idea what would become of gOg.

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And why - when I posted from the phone last night - did stupid autocorrect do an auto-incorrect? Bleh.- "publically"?

Well, yea, nothing is forever and we are all not only mortal, but suddenly mortal. =) Still, I think a profitable store is reasonably unlikely to be killed off. If there's one thing that unites all people it's the love for money, and the nice things that it buys.

Before cloud game streaming become a thing with crazy speeds somewhere in this century or the next... hopefully i be gone by then. :o

GOG as we know it will end when the hordes of fanatical zealots burn those of the company that did not flee in time. After all, computer games cannot be good seeing how they have themes like magic and such evil.