Because they are not doing it because of customers, they are doing it for themselves. It’s easier to manage things on a corporate level when the data is also separated similarly as their companies are.
Comment on CD Projekt Red are splitting from GOG somehow?
TWeaK@lemm.ee 4 months agoAccording to Wikipedia, GOG sp. z o.o. is still a subsidiary of CD PROJEKT S.A.
They are legally separate entities, but why should that affect customers? Why are CDPR games no longer being sold on the GOG store? This almost would be like if Valve stopped selling Half Life on Steam.
I don’t think it has anything to do with being “easier to manage”. I think the corporate structure is purely for financial reasons. Valve never spun up a second business for Steam.
I also suspect it has something to do with the fact that GOG is a staunchly DRM free platform. It sounds like either CDPR want to sell games with DRM (which means future titles similar to Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous and Baldur’s Gate 3 would no longer have a DRM-free option, as CDPR would simply have them on their main store rather than GOG), or CDPR want to include DRM in their own games.
MrHandyMan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
HKayn@dormi.zone 4 months ago
Why are CDPR games no longer being sold on the GOG store?
What are you taking about? Where in that email did you get the idea that that was going to happen?
You are confusing CD Projekt with CD Projekt Red.
TWeaK@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I’m not confusing anything here. For clarity, CPD is the parent company, CDPR is a department within the parent company that develops games. The two are basically synonymous.
What I’m doing is inferring that their statement “online services including…” is in no way an exhaustive list, and directly implies that other things are migrating also. Furthermore, when I logged into GOG Galaxy I could no longer shop for new games (not just CDPR games, but recent games from other publishers - only old titles were available), which further leant into the idea that games were being removed from the GOG store. I’ve since checked gog.com and they’re still there, though.
In any case, even if it doesn’t happen right away this move absolutely is a step towards CDPR games not being listed on the GOG store and potentially even coming with DRM.
I’ve created a support ticket with them asking for further details about the change.
HKayn@dormi.zone 4 months ago
Sure man, whatever you want to believe.
TWeaK@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Classy argument.
doctorzeromd@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Where are you seeing anything saying that CD project red games won’t be sold on the GOG store?
TWeaK@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Maybe they will be, but “a new account system” sounds to me like a new service.
picnicolas@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
I understand your concern based on how corporations tend to run these days, but this is a lot of speculation. It’s good to be skeptical though.
My guess is that they want to use a single account across more services unrelated to GOG, akin to the way google SSO works for gmail, YouTube, drive, etc. If the account is owned by a subsidiary that might not be possible for other subsidiaries to use the same account per data regulation rules.
TWeaK@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I’d like to think I’m not so much speculating, but rather concerned about what this might mean. There’s certainly no apparent reason why splitting CDPR games away from GOG would be good for consumers.
The specific reasoning they’ve given is pretty clear:
None of these things have a clear advantage in being separated from GOG. GOG is owned by CDPR, GOG is a CDPR subsidiary. CDPR have full authority to dictate how their games are sold on the GOG platform. The only unique thing about GOG is the DRM-free position.
By separating CDPR games from GOG, they can separate CDPR games from the DRM-free position, without facing the inevitable backlash that doing so would normally face. Then, newer CDPR games won’t be bound by the GOG philosophy, while GOG can die off somewhat naturally and without such significant backlash. This could be seen as commercially preferable over the current situation for a publicly traded company such as CDPR.
I am making assumptions, but that is the very nature of future predictions. I ask if you could make any other assumption that really challenges mine.
doctorzeromd@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
I don’t see any reason to believe that it would be different from the rockstar launcher. You can still buy rockstar games from steam.
TWeaK@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Their games might end up on both, but when it comes to a new 3rd party game being put on CDPR store with DRM or GOG store without DRM, which do you think will happen? Long term, do you think GOG would survive if CDPR shift their focus to another store?
It’s not really the same as Rockstar Launcher and Steam, because Rockstar don’t own Steam.