Talk:GOG.com

GOG.com is a Cyprian company

I have reverted 123unoduetre's edition, because the article clearly states where the company is registered, no matter where the parent company is from. Horgelblob (talk) 15:31, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

I agree about the place of the registration. However I would like to point out in the article where the company operates. It is obvious that nowadays companies can get registered in a country which has the lowest tax etc. I would like to add to the article the distinction between where the company operates and where it is registered. Does it make sense to you Horgelblob? 123unoduetre (talk) 23:30, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

In my opinion GOG.com simply operates globally and not in a single country. From this point of view it doesn't have a particular "nationality" and is "multinational" just like, e.g. Samsung, Microsoft or KGHM Polska Miedź. Horgelblob (talk) 13:01, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

You could argue they are based in Cyprus because of where they are registered, but their headquarters are in Poland and to say otherwise is ridiculous. 212.219.8.230 (talk) 14:04, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

The work page says the actual location is Warsaw http://www.gog.com/work#gog_mentality And Thus, I Can Do It (talk) 08:24, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

They have offices and workers in Warsaw. Not that it does any good for this article, but they have made it clear on their forums that they are 'based' in Cyprus strictly for financial reasons, specifically to avoid Poland's VAT taxes and stricter regulations. We can make this clear in the article if necessary, but it seems like a trifling detail. Grayfell (talk) 05:46, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

(@Lordtobi:, @Grayfell:) The infobox uses the field "headquarters", which is what the Warsaw office is. Cyprus seems to be the registered office, the country where the company was incorporated. I believe it is wrong to state Cyprus as the 'headquarter' in the infobox. It also conflicts with what is already in the body text.19:30, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

It is very likely a lot of users associate GOG.com with Poland as parent company and owner CD Projekt is based there, but GOG Limited, the company behind GOG.com is based in Cyprus and there is no way around it. For "safety" I had put Poland as country of origin, which is not necessarily true either. The citation given to source its location, which is on the website itself, outlines that they are hiring in "[their] Warsaw office", which is because, as outlined above, the company incorportated in Cyprus to avoid taxes and such, being a reseller this is very much a thing. To sum it up, it is true that GOG Limited is based in Cyprus, not in Warsaw, though they have an untaxed officer over there. If the text says otherwise, it shall be aligned. Lordtobi (✉) 19:57, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

I think people are more interested to known where their main office is. And it's clearly in Warsaw, not in Cyprus. So saying that headquarters are in Cyprus is simply incorrect. — Bahaltener (talk) 17:53, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

"interested to known where their main office is"—"saying that headquarters are in Cyprus is simply incorrect"—What now? The headquarters are in Cyprus and the main office in Warsaw, no doubt. However, the infobox takes the headquarters. Also you are reviving this thread after many months now. Lordtobi (✉) 18:05, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

What exactly do you call "headquarters"? I call the main office that. I.e. "the center of an organization's operations or administration." Head office is clearly listed as synonym. Do you have a different definition? Reviving an old thread isn't a problem, if the subject matter wasn't exhausted yet. — Bahaltener (talk) 02:46, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

From what we know, the administrative office is based in Cyprus, therefore the headquarters; the "main office", in the regards of this company, is the development house for the online platform, and larger than its administrative office. It would be wrong to say that being larger makes it the headquarters, per the definition you gave, where the "center of [GOG Ltd]'s operations and administration" is in Cyprus. Lordtobi (✉) 14:09, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

That's simply incorrect. Their administrative office is based in Poland. — Bahaltener (talk) 20:41, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

In how far is it wrong if GOG Limited has their registered headquarters in Cyprus? On gog.com itself, the Warsaw office is only refered to as "our Warsaw, Poland office". If you think that your opinion, which technically goes against the facts, is correct, please provide sources that say that GOG Limited is Polish, and not Cypriot. Lordtobi (✉) 21:02, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

I think it's safe to say that GOG has moved its headquarters to Warsaw, Poland. I (a customer) got an email that included, among other things "Why update the legal documents?

(1) To reflect an internal reorganisation of GOG’s business as part of which it will relocate from Cyprus to Poland – this requires us to make some edits to our legal documents. You can read more about the reorganisation below. (2) To implement latest international legal requirements and generally to keep up to date with best practices." There is also this document on their site.— Preceding unsigned comment added by WayneMokane (talk • contribs) 19:33, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

'Advert' tag added

After reading the article, I've opted to add the "advert" tag as it acts as one big "the history, present & future of an awesome company" brochure. Just for starters: it gives the clear impression that most or all of the games on the service are reverse-engineered or otherwise altered to run under modern OSes (all of the DOS games at the least use free standard open-source emulator DOSBox), there's no mention of its Twitter controversies (the #WontBeErased mess etc.), that its customers/community were reportedly angry over the site-closing hoax...and that's just what I found in a handful of creative web searches out of curiosity to see if all coverage of GOG really is butterflies-and-rainbows. —User:Trilkhai^meow? 09:47, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

I agree, it still reads like an advert. I have added the template to the page. --Rozbuff (talk) 23:44, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

Given that I'm the primary author on many of these sections, you are going to have to be very clear why you think it reads like an advert. The claims mentioned above by Trilkhai are user-fueled controversies we can't cover unless RS sources cover them, so that's not going to happen, so their omission is not trying to make this an advert, its simply not possible to include. The first sections are all based on 3rd party articles chronicling the history of the company so that's exactly what we want to document. --Masem (t) 23:52, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

GOG Galaxy 2.0

GOG Galaxy 2.0 was announced recently: https://www.gogalaxy.com/en/ I don't see it mentioned in the article at all, probably worth adding. 2601:404:C900:1545:A965:F797:DA0D:863 (talk) 11:34, 8 June 2019 (UTC)