CD Projekt Cuts GOG Loose, Founder Takes It Back
CD Projekt has officially sold GOG, handing the DRM-free storefront back to co-founder Michał Kiciński for PLN 90.7 million (about $25.2 million).
The company line is “focus.” The reality is cleaner: GOG no longer fits inside a modern AAA publisher chasing scale, subscriptions, and tightly controlled ecosystems.
GOG has spent years preaching ownership and preservation in an industry moving in the opposite direction. Now it’s officially on its own—kept alive by a distribution deal that ensures future CD Projekt Red titles still land on the platform, but without CD Projekt carrying the storefront as dead weight.
Kiciński says GOG will double down on freedom, DRM-free games, and classic preservation—values that increasingly read as radical in a PC market built around launchers, logins, and lock-ins.
The split is polite, mutual, and inevitable.
CD Projekt goes all-in on blockbusters.
GOG goes back to fighting the system.
Whether there’s still room for that fight in 2026 is the real gamble.
