GOG Stakes Its Post-Independence Business on Keeping Old Games Playable
GOG business development lead Bartlomiej Fietkiewicz laid out the store's mission at its Warsaw office: keep classic PC games running on current and future hardware.
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Why it matters
GOG is now a standalone company whose stated mission is long-term compatibility and DRM-free ownership, and its answer to competing at a scale it admits is smaller than Steam is publisher negotiation driven by user requests.
Key Facts
- GOG was founded in 2008 as Good Old Games within the CD PROJEKT group.
- CD PROJEKT co-founder Michal Kicinski acquired all GOG shares in December 2025, making the store independent.
- GOG refurbishes classic games for modern PCs with higher resolution and gamepad support and sells them without DRM.
- GOG has brought Capcom titles including Resident Evil, Dino Crisis, and Breath of Fire IV to its store.
- GOG business development lead Bartlomiej Fietkiewicz presented the store's preservation plans at its Warsaw office.
GOG, founded in 2008 as Good Old Games under CD PROJEKT, became independent in December 2025 when co-founder Michal Kicinski acquired all its shares. Its revival work includes Capcom titles such as Resident Evil, Dino Crisis, and Breath of Fire IV.
GOG's independence came in December 2025, when CD PROJEKT co-founder Michal Kicinski bought all of the store's shares. The Warsaw office still sits on CD PROJEKT property, but the business now answers to its own mission: keeping old games playable.
That work is concrete. GOG refurbishes classic titles for modern PCs with higher resolution and gamepad support, sells them without copy protection, and runs a preservation program, mod distribution, and the community-voting Dreamlist. Business development lead Bartlomiej Fietkiewicz pointed to the Capcom partnership, which has brought Resident Evil, Dino Crisis, and Breath of Fire IV to the store.
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