{"rewrite":{"id":"r_41e4cefdebf37b907d732f2b","clusterId":"c_3eb83c76b98cf882880f93e7","slug":"gog-stakes-its-post-independence-business-on-keeping-old-games-playable","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"GOG Stakes Its Post-Independence Business on Keeping Old Games Playable","summary":"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. 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.","whyItMatters":"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.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eGOG\u0026#39;s independence came in December 2025, when CD PROJEKT co-founder Michal Kicinski bought all of the store\u0026#39;s shares. The Warsaw office still sits on CD PROJEKT property, but the business now answers to its own mission: keeping old games playable.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat 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.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"GOG's revival work on Resident Evil and Dino Crisis is the harder problem: keeping old code running on hardware it was never built for costs more per title than a new release.","twitterPost":"GOG keeping Resident Evil and Dino Crisis playable means paying to preserve code no current hardware was built to run.","threadsPost":"GOG's revival work on Resident Evil, Dino Crisis, and Breath of Fire IV is the part of the business that scales worst: each title needs its own fix to run on hardware it was never built for, and that cost does not drop as the catalog grows.","newsletterBlurb":"GOG became independent in December 2025 after CD PROJEKT co-founder Michal Kicinski acquired all its shares. At the Warsaw office, business development lead Bartlomiej Fietkiewicz said the store's mission is keeping classic games playable on current and future PCs, with Capcom revivals such as Resident Evil, Dino Crisis, and Breath of Fire IV as the working proof.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Game Spark\",\"url\":\"http://www.gamespark.jp/article/2026/11/04/174471.html\",\"title\":\"Can \\\"making games playable forever\\\" be a business? Asked at GOG headquarters: classic game revivals, mod distribution, and the power of community\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":5586,"outputTokens":763,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1793790306,"createdAt":"2026-11-04T11:00:11.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-11-04T11:03:53.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-11-04T11:03:53.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_3eb83c76b98cf882880f93e7","canonicalTitle":"「ゲームを永遠に遊べるようにする」はビジネスになるのか？GOG本社で聞いた、名作復刻・MOD配信・コミュニティの力","representativeArticleId":"a_8b3934bd145bc49539ea5540","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[],\"studios\":[\"GOG\"],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"business\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-11-04T10:15:02.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-11-04T10:15:02.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-11-04T11:03:52.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Game Spark","url":"http://www.gamespark.jp/article/2026/11/04/174471.html","title":"「ゲームを永遠に遊べるようにする」はビジネスになるのか？GOG本社で聞いた、名作復刻・MOD配信・コミュニティの力"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":[],"studios":["GOG"],"people":[],"type":"business","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":["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."],"pageLinks":{"healthSlugs":["gog"],"storySlugs":[],"entities":[{"slug":"gog","supported":0,"disputed":0,"contradicted":0,"unverified":3,"overall":"unverified","story_count":2,"has_dossier":true}],"stories":[],"entitiesOk":true,"storiesOk":true}}