MaxFulvus: Western countries are not a market as good as I expected. Drm-free supremacy is not for tomorrow...
Why do you think the western market isn't good? 60 percent of all their sales came from the USA, and then 24 percent from the EU - that is 84 percent before adding Canada and Australia. They make almost everything from the West.
I would say the problem is the sales. It is pretty obvious that most of the sales of games come from the big seasonal sales GOG has and the smaller weekly sales and specials sales like Pinata.
I didn't read the whole report so I am not sure if they ever broke it out, but I would venture to say that 90-95 percent (at minimum) of all the game purchases on GOG are sold on sale. And I would be willing to bet that 50 percent of games sold come in the big seasonal sales.
CDPR is very profitable - 47 percent profitability is amazing, but it would be great if the GOG side would grow more.
I know they want that too. Consistent revenue is awesome for when they make a game that doesn't do as well as expected they don't get crushed. And it is inevitable. Every company, every developer has had a project that didn't sell as well as expected or didn't live up to previous work. Blizzard had Diablo 3 sell exceptionally well off the back of the previous two games, but it is not nearly as good, nor as well received, that will affect D4 in the future. They cancelled StarCraft Ghost and the second MMO they were working on which are both huge money losses. Nintendo has made bad games, too and great games that didn't sell very well.