GOG, the DRM-free games retailer owned by CD Projekt, have confirmed they laid off “around a dozen” folks final week. GOG say it’s no downside, they’re simply reorganising, and that they’re hiring greater than they let go. One of the affected workers has whispered that these layoffs made up 10% of GOG’s employees, and that the corporate could also be in additional monetary hassle than they publicly let on. All we all know for sure is that some of us have been proven the door.
“We have been rearranging certain teams since October 2018, effecting in closing around a dozen of positions last week,” GOG mentioned in an announcement to Kotaku. “At the identical time, because the course of began now we have welcomed almost twice as many new workforce members, and presently hold 20 open positions.”
They make out prefer it’s no massive deal, enterprise as normal, only a reorganisation. One of the laid-off workers, talking to Kotaku as an nameless supply, claims issues are a bit bumpier than GOG counsel.
“We were told it’s a financial decision,” the individual informed Kotaku. “GOG’s revenue couldn’t keep up with growth, the fact that we’re dangerously close to being in the red has come up in the past few months, and the market’s move towards higher revenue shares has, or will, affect the bottom line as well. I mean, it’s just an odd situation, like things got really desperate really fast. I know that February was a really bad month, but January on the other hand was excellent. We were in the middle of a general restructuring, moving some teams around, not unprecedented. But layoffs that big have never happened before.”
That former worker might not have the complete image, after all, and will not be greatest happy with the corporate. Don’t take it as stable truth. Unless one thing dramatic occurs, we’ll possible want to attend a bit for agency phrase on the state of affairs. CD Projekt are on account of report on 2018’s full financials in March, and for the primary quarter of 2019 in May.
While the launch of the Epic Games Store is unquestionably a priority for GOG, one other massive competitor becoming a member of the scene, GOG nonetheless have a unique focus. They’re GOG doing their DRM-free factor, interesting to an viewers that can have much less curiosity in putting in one other retailer shopper and going through DRM. Epic are primarily gunning for Steam too, taking a smaller minimize of gross sales and throwing round huge quantities of cash to jump-start the exclusives and giveaways which have come naturally to Steam. But all competitors is unquestionably a priority for GOG.
