The Witcher 2.According to GOG managing director Guillaume Rambourg at an investor meeting, “GOG.com has been performing very well the last three years, as we’ve mentioned previously both at CD Projekt conferences and at venues like the London Games Conference last week. We have an audacious plan for the the next two years to continue GOG.com’s success story, and that depends on three things.
“First, we will be adding newer games into the catalog in 2012. Traditionally, GOG.com has looked for great classics that are three years old or older. We will continue to add classic games, of course, but we are actively working to sign newer titles now. Of course, these new titles will have to come at a new, higher price point, but our key focus will always be on the same core values that have made GOG.com great so far: completely DRM-free games, flat prices everywhere in the world, and extra content and goodies for our fantastic customers.
“Second, the consistent growth that GOG.com has had since we launched in 2008 has been a great success story. We’ve been profitable since our first month, and the fact that we’ve come from nowhere to bring over a million classic gamers to our website every month and over six million games downloaded proves that gamers want an alternative to the usual digital distributors. We want to continue this growth, and we have a plan for this: more than 400 products in our catalog by the end of 2012, combined with new partners, more franchises, and continued improvements to make GOG.com a better website will help us achieve this goal.
“Finally, we want to work closely with ambitious developers and independent publishers who feel a kinship with that ‘good old spirit’ that GOG.com embodies. Thanks to the commercial success of The Witcher 2 on GOG.com, more and more people realize that our values are universal. They are coming to GOG and asking if we can carry their titles. We’ve made GOG.com the destination for classic PC games, but now is the time to take this to the next level and emerge as the best alternative digital distribution platform for all PC games.”
Good Old Games is one of the fastest growing digital distribution sites, thanks to its policy of releasing DRM-free software, including classic games that have already been pre-set to run on modern computers, including such titles as the Baldur’s Gate series and the Gabriel Knight trilogy.
