At first I got a 404 error, even with the original (untranslated) page. It only worked after I accepted stuff in the usual data protection / privacy popup *and* did a full reload of the page.

It wasn't that the page didn't load, it just failed to get translated. But I should've thought to check my script blocker for possibly Google-Translate-relevant domains that I needed to allow; doing this let the process work for me. XD (In my defense, these days, I almost exclusively use Google Translate on its own site to translate individual paragraphs and passages, not entire third-party webpages.)

Brief summary of the article above from Fark-9191932 here - https://gameworldobserver.com/2024/12/20/gog-layoffs-staff-turnover-poor-management-report

Seems to me this Gołębiewski fellow has no idea what he's doing. How did he climb the corporate ladder so fast if GOG was never really profitable after he joined besides in 2017 (9.4% net profit, W3 + Gwent sales) and in 2020 (6.0% net profit, CP77 release).

Thanks for the link .

Sad to read about the lay off 20-30 employees.

Thanks for sharing.
I wonder if the comment 'the current business model is likely running out of steam' is a pun on the market leader who never seem to be running out of it?

The Q3 results in the next story below that one were a bit grim (GOG made a loss) but I'm sure that's already been discussed elsewhere. Let's hope The Witcher IV, Cyberpunk (2088?) and Hadar (a new IP) are all big hits and sell a lot through GOG.

GOG Unveils Ultimate ‘Dino Crisis’ Games — Is Capcom’s Remake Next?
A fairly in-depth article that looks at what went into re-releasing Dino Crisis 1 and 2.

"Humble Storefront To Unstoppable Curator, I Had the Honor of Speaking to GOG About Their Ongoing Game Preservation Mission"
https://www.vice.com/en/article/from-humble-storefront-to-unstoppable-curator-i-had-the-honor-of-speaking-to-gog-about-their-ongoing-game-preservation-mission-interview/

GOG: Meet the Heroes Saving Your Favourite Childhood Games - The Retro Hour EP470
https://audioboom.com/posts/8665564-gog-meet-the-heroes-saving-your-favourite-childhood-games-the-retro-hour-ep470
A podcast with Marcin Paczyński and Adam Ziółkowski. The GOG portion starts at about 44:00, and in the last few minutes they drop this hint of the next game they're bringing back: I think the likeliest candidate that they're referring to is Breath of Fire IV.

"The Retro Hour: I think (the preservation program) is going to be a great resource for, like, you know, even education. If kids were looking at some of the titles, and how the title was developed, you know, they could go back and play some of the original versions.

Marcin Paczyński: The developers of new games as well, like, the number of times I was asked for KOTOR 2 (as an example) for a classic game on GoG from a developer who is working on a next AAA game... you can guess who that might have been.

A lot of those games have very cool features that are, you know, only there, they're kind of forgotten. And people like to go back and to check them out and see what was in [those classic games] to maybe be able to use that knowledge and that feature and re-implement it in a new title."

The Witcher IV or Project Orion having taken inspiration in some way or another from Knights of the Old Republic II confirmed.

Also:

"Marcin Paczyński: It's really amazing what is out there (in terms of mod projects). And this is actually something what we want to do at GoG this year to bring that amazing scene closer to the mainstream audience by simply releasing those mods on GoG in a way that would allow you to just click a button and just play the game without going through the hassle of these steps how to install that mod.

This is actually something that we want to do this year, kind of following up on what we did with Fallout: London.
So that will be... hopefully, a lot of those great mods out there will be released on GoG in a form in which you can basically just go to the platform, add the mod to your account, click Install, Play and that's it."

Hopefully it's not something that's locked like steam workshop...Instead of wasting resources and time they should do a partnership with nexus or moddb

It could also be a Digimon game. I remember GOG promoting that dreamlist entry in their X account.

I think and hope it's Breath of Fire IV too.