I actually love CDPR as developers both in terms of their games and how they treat their consumers, but I have heard that they aren't always a great place to work for their employees. Can anybody confirm this for me though? Or, alternatively, could people explain what they dislike about CDPR generally? They're one of the only large developers who seem to treat their customers like humans, not bank accounts, and it's much appreciated.
There were apparent issues with large amounts of crunch on Witcher 3 according to some Glassdoor reviews (which are never verified), but recent Glassdoor reviews have been painting a picture of a CDPR that has learned from those times.
Other than that, the only thing some people don't seem to like about CDPR or GOG come from the PR side. The whole GOG tweeting the game journalism tombstone from Postal 2 being pissed on, and the Cyberpunk 2077 Twitter making a "did you just assume their gender" joke come to mind. I literally know someone who is essentially boycotting Cyberpunk 2077 just because of the latter.
It probably doesn't really matter if they're barely breaking even. Even if Gog was somewhat in the red it would still be a net benefit to CDPR because the service generates a lot of good will from consumers. CDPR makes plenty from sales of games they've developed such as Witcher 3 so it'd be stupid of them to consider something like shutting it down, though trying to appeal more to consumers and developers wouldn't be a bad idea.
Improving the parts of the service where it's inferior to Steam, for example, in both regards to usability for consumers as well as developers (apparently updating games is a bit of a pain on Gog) would probably help some.
People dumbing and snowflaking this post over an opinion. Wow.
You probably shouldn't have said you dislike them then. You can not be interested in a game and still admit that it's good. I'm not that interested in the DMC series but I can still appreciate that it exists and that they're good games in their own right.
This is something that I've actually been dealing with lately! Fascinating.
So, I run a website for buying/selling TF2 items for cash: https://marketplace.tf. We take a 10% commission on items sold. This covers payment processor fees, fraud, support staff, hosting, etc.
Every single competitor, however, takes a 5% commission off items sold, but they also charge a 5%+ fee on the buyers when they want to buy an item.
On the absolute face of it, the lower upfront commission makes sense: more money for me! But there are two things wrong with it:
Buyers hate it. You actively push people away from buying on your website when you charge people a fee just to pay for an item.
The costs get pushed to the seller eventually. Even though you only lose 5% of the sale, you also effectively have to lower your prices by an additional 5% in order to cover the extra cost put onto the buyer. You're still paying the 10 percent.
I know this is a hell of a tangent but it's something I've been dealing with and thinking on lately and watching epic do it is fascinating to me. In my view, this isn't a strategy that can work. Buyers (those who buy the games or products) are harder to earn and retain than sellers, and sellers want to sell where the buyers are.
At the root of it, Epic made a bad financial decision -- the 12% commission -- and are then forced to make terrible decisions due to that which will just keep fucking them over.
So are you implying that CDPR deliberately made that post to insult transgendered people? That they deliberately want to destroy their impeccable PR relationship that they've built up with their consumers?
I don't buy that. What I do buy is, the whole "did you just assume my gender" thing has been used as a joke in the past, and so an out of touch PR rep used it in that situation to appear more "hip" without realizing the possible ramifications. It's a common misstep in PR scenarios.
I seriously doubt CDPR as a company is anti-trans, and I think it takes some serious mental gymnastics to think that from just a simple tweet. If they are somehow anti-trans though, then yeah, fuck that.
I don't know if it was the same guy but the person who used to run the GOG twitter turned out to be very alt right.
Anyway hopefully GOG can change things around for this year. Them ending that regional pricing program and scoring diablo 1 and the first two warcraft games should hopefully help.
Well fuck. That sucks. Glad they're gone then.
Of course, the views of one do not represent the views of all.
Not really, what actually happened is that he used the hashtag #WontBeErased to promote the store as according to him, seen some old stuff like radios, tv etc. related to it, didn't realize that it's been used for political stuff that was happening in USA. He got fired and worst of all, he and his family got doxxed.
Other than that he actually made the GOG community a better place.
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