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The new owner of GOG discusses taking on Steam, the devil of DRM, and following in Nightdive's footsteps
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this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2026
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Wow, big surprise this morning! I'm glad the new owner is intent on maintaining the same values.
It makes sense because GOG was never going to drive year over year growth for the publicly traded CDPR. Operating as a private company, it doesn't need to provide shareholder value and can be sustainable by simply "being profitable" forever, like Steam. Publicly traded CDPR holding GOG was a ticking time bomb but for once it seems to have been defused.
Yeah, I'm not a fan of the weird obsession with endless growth that the stock market demands.
Well the new owner, was one of the original founders.
Yep. Could have been so much worse