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Posted May 31, 2013
Does anybody know how well GOG is doing? Are they raking in the cash? Making a decent profit? Just breaking water or are they losing cash daily? I'm not looking for exact numbers, was just casually wondering if anybody knew.

Mostly I'm wondering due to the forum here. While I love GOG, the forum is a bit... simple, IMO (no offense to the GOG staff who maintain it). I'm thinking perhaps the reason GOG doesn't do more with the forum is because they can't afford expensive web designers and new software. There have been requests for forum features that are never implemented, and I'm guessing the only reason they aren't is due to budget constraints.

Thoughts?
Posted May 31, 2013
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BlueMooner: Mostly I'm wondering due to the forum here. While I love GOG, the forum is a bit... simple, IMO (no offense to the GOG staff who maintain it). I'm thinking perhaps the reason GOG doesn't do more with the forum is because they can't afford expensive web designers and new software.
They keep posting new job openings. Last one was looking for web developers as well. Let me see if it's still up.

Edit: Yeap, Work for Us page, on the bottom of every forum page.
Post edited May 31, 2013 by JMich
Posted May 31, 2013
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BlueMooner: Does anybody know how well GOG is doing? Are they raking in the cash? Making a decent profit?
A Gorillion Dollars

On a more serious note, I don't believe that GOG publishes it's profits however it has let people know often in presentations and conferences that it's userbase and game download numbers are increasing so I would assume they are doing pretty good
Posted May 31, 2013
I think the CDP conference that was in Polish from around March mentioned how much they made (IIRC CDP itself had a profit of $12 million?) so I think they're doing alright.
Posted May 31, 2013
Considering they're still around after almost 5 years of operation, they're probably making ends meet.
Posted May 31, 2013
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Roman5: A Gorillion Dollars

On a more serious note, I don't believe that GOG publishes it's profits however it has let people know often in presentations and conferences that it's userbase and game download numbers are increasing so I would assume they are doing pretty good
To be fair, all companies HAVE to say they're doing well, whether they are or aren't.

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Access to a generous health care and sport activities package.

Sport Activities? Does that mean their office is on the 19th floor of a building with no elevator?
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Posted May 31, 2013
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BlueMooner: Does anybody know how well GOG is doing? Are they raking in the cash? Making a decent profit? Just breaking water or are they losing cash daily? I'm not looking for exact numbers, was just casually wondering if anybody knew.

Mostly I'm wondering due to the forum here. While I love GOG, the forum is a bit... simple, IMO (no offense to the GOG staff who maintain it). I'm thinking perhaps the reason GOG doesn't do more with the forum is because they can't afford expensive web designers and new software. There have been requests for forum features that are never implemented, and I'm guessing the only reason they aren't is due to budget constraints.

Thoughts?
here you are:
http://www.cdprojekt.com/resources/document/prezentacje/Wyniki_1_kwartal_2013.pdf

In a nutshell: they are ok. Their income in Q1/2013 was 12 M PLN (5.5 in Q1/2012)

AFAIK at the beginning of 2012 they payed dividend in amount 1M EUR to CDP (guess it was from net profit from 2011-)
Post edited May 31, 2013 by tburger
Posted May 31, 2013
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BlueMooner: Access to a generous health care and sport activities package.

Sport Activities? Does that mean their office is on the 19th floor of a building with no elevator?
Either that or someone owns dogs - big, hungry dogs that are let loose to hunt down slower (and therefore less productive) members of staff once a month.
Evidently its whoever last had the currently open positions!
Post edited May 31, 2013 by Sachys
Posted May 31, 2013
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BlueMooner: Sport Activities? Does that mean their office is on the 19th floor of a building with no elevator?
Actually we get access to ninja training - acrobatics, swordfighting, hand to hand combat etc :-P
Posted May 31, 2013
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BlueMooner: Sport Activities? Does that mean their office is on the 19th floor of a building with no elevator?
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Gowor: Actually we get access to ninja training - acrobatics, swordfighting, hand to hand combat etc :-P
And we love every minute of it ^_^
Posted May 31, 2013
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BlueMooner: Access to a generous health care and sport activities package.

Sport Activities? Does that mean their office is on the 19th floor of a building with no elevator?
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Sachys: Either that or someone owns dogs - big, hungry dogs that are let loose to hunt down slower (and therefore less productive) members of staff once a month.
Evidently its whoever last had the currently open positions!
how did judas survive? :-P
Posted May 31, 2013
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Gowor: Actually we get access to ninja training - acrobatics, swordfighting, hand to hand combat etc :-P
Not to mention fighting the ninjas for first post in release threads...
Posted May 31, 2013
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Sachys: Either that or someone owns dogs - big, hungry dogs that are let loose to hunt down slower (and therefore less productive) members of staff once a month.
Evidently its whoever last had the currently open positions!
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reaver894: how did judas survive? :-P
Ever heard of throwing people under the bus? Same principle, just with dogs :D.
Posted May 31, 2013
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BlueMooner: Sport Activities? Does that mean their office is on the 19th floor of a building with no elevator?
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Gowor: Actually we get access to ninja training - acrobatics, swordfighting, hand to hand combat etc :-P
Ahh, beside some newer pcs and maybe older ones you have also an Nintendo Wii in your office...
Posted May 31, 2013
Also we are training forest survival techniques every once in a while ;)
Post edited May 31, 2013 by aMoosingOne
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