New Blood boss Dave Oshry ‘quadruples down’ on supporting GOG after worrying about its future, committing to sales, demos, one-click mods, plus day-and-date releases alongside Steam
After expressing worry about the future health of games storefront GOG in an RPG Site interview, New Blood CEO Dave Oshry has recommitted to supporting the platform, including fuller parity with the Steam releases of its games.
GOG’s clear remit—offering the titular “good old games” you can’t get elsewhere—has been long been challenged by Steam’s inclusion of many classic games in its own catalogue. In 2021, GOG had a particularly bad year, proving a net loser for then-parent company CD Projekt. This prompted GOG to refocus on classic games after experimenting with with more new releases—including a version of Hitman whose DRM kinda flew in the face of GOG’s “no-DRM” promise.
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“We appreciate Dave’s honesty, and he’s right about one thing: game preservation only works if people care,” GOG wrote in its post. “GOG was built to make sure the games that shaped us live forever. And with the support of our community, we’ve been doing exactly that for almost 20 years.
“The future of preservation is decided by players who give a shit. So buy DRM-free, vote on the Dreamlist, join GOG Patrons. If games matter to you, show it. And let’s prove together that preservation isn’t niche. It’s necessary.”
And Oshry seems committed to giving a shit about GOG—New Blood ran its anniversary sale on GOG concurrently with the Steam version, and has promised to release Dungeons of Dusk and Tenebrous Somnia concurrently on Steam and GOG, while it also offers demos of both on GOG as well. New Blood has even “quadrupled down” by bringing the Dusk HD remaster to GOG as a one click install, similar to its Steam Workshop version.
