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GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam” (gameworldobserver.com)

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Selling old games and new games isn't mutually exclusive, and more money tends to be spent on new games than old ones. It's not unreasonable to expect that selling new games too could subsidise the work to make old games run on modern platforms.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

i mean I get that, but what I was saying was the original purpose of the store became an afterthought.