GOG Is Being Acquired by Unique Co-Founder Michał Kiciński

Digital gaming storefront and preservation platform GOG is being acquired by unique co-founder Michał Kiciński, who’s additionally one of many unique founders of what’s now GOG’s former mum or dad firm CD Projekt.

In a weblog submit on the GOG web site, the GOG crew verify that the platform is being bought by Kiciński, however they are saying that the acquisition is about “doubling down” on the platform’s imaginative and prescient of video games that “actually belong to [players], eternally”.

In accordance with the GOG crew, “DRM-free [gaming] is extra central to GOG than ever”, and the platform’s relationship with ex-parent CD Projekt is not altering both; video games by improvement wing CD Projekt Purple will proceed to be launched on GOG, however the firm will now not personal the storefront.

In an accompanying FAQ, the GOG crew says Kiciński needs to “protect and develop the unique philosophy behind GOG”, particularly to “protect the classics of the previous, have fun standout video games of right now, and assist form the classics of tomorrow”.

The crew says that nothing about your GOG account or library will change, and that video games launched on the platform will stay freed from DRM. Not solely that, however your ideas and GOG Patron contributions will not be shared with Kiciński or “another social gathering”.

Opposite to what you would possibly assume this implies, GOG says it is not “financially unstable”; fairly the opposite, the truth is. The crew says it is “had a extremely encouraging yr” and that avid gamers have proven “extra enthusiasm” in the direction of its preservation mission than ever earlier than.

Briefly, then, it feels like nothing concerning the materials GOG expertise will change for you, however that possession has shifted from Cyberpunk and The Witcher mum or dad firm CD Projekt to a single particular person.

This information comes simply over a yr after the launch of GOG’s Preservation Program, which goals to maintain video games included throughout the program supported eternally, no matter whether or not their publishers supply official assist or not.

Up to now, this system has welcomed the likes of Dino Disaster, quite a few basic Star Wars titles, and the horror shooter F.E.A.R., which was added to the Preservation Program following the sudden closure of developer Monolith earlier this yr.