A founder-owner control structure for GOG after Michał Kiciński acquired
the DRM-free game storefront from CD PROJEKT. The ownership is
mission-aligned compared with ordinary platform consolidation, but it
still depends on one living owner rather than durable democratic
control.
Why this matters: GOG can be better than platform peers
in practice while still carrying owner-dependence risk.
Letter grade DExtractiveHigh
confidence (AI)Rubric gcd-rubric-v1
* Tentative scaffolding score. Not
human-checked or final.
Base Material31Bonus+1Cap49Small-business calibration
cap: low formal ownership/governance can reach B when person-scale
evidence supports the ordinary axes
After Cap32Penalties-6b
Small business context
This entry is classified as a small business using observable scale
signals: independent control, local or limited operations, and no
evidence of public-company or national-chain scale. The small-business
calibration keeps the ordinary rubric but reads evidence at person
scale: living-wage pricing is not extraction by itself, while worker and
contractor treatment, owner surplus, transparency, advertising pressure,
dissent tolerance, and recourse matter more. Harm, toxicity,
surveillance, labor, coercion, opacity, and hidden-parent penalties are
not relaxed.
Applied cap: Small-business calibration cap: low formal
ownership/governance can reach B when person-scale evidence supports the
ordinary axes
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omissions, or miscalibration.
The score turns mainly on Extraction, with the largest penalty coming
from Reversibility.
Strengths
Extraction5/10
Product
Integrity5/5
Loss-Bearing
Fidelity4/7
Penalties
Reversibility-5
Identity
Capture-1
Evidence state
ConfidenceHigh
confidence (AI)
ThoroughnessDeveloped
(AI)
Linked claims12
Direct axis claims12
Coverage12/12
Scoring Axes
Axis
Score
Why this score
Ownership
?
Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control
at 10.
2 / 10
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding is organized as the parent, owner, or
controlling holding structure described in the linked public materials,
not as a worker-, customer-, reader-, or public-governed institution.
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding is organized as the parent, owner, or
controlling holding structure described in the linked public materials,
not as a worker-, customer-, reader-, or public-governed institution. On
Ownership, Michał Kiciński / GOG holding belongs near the bottom because
parent ownership primarily serves shareholders, funds, families,
executives, or individual owners. Any practical value at the subsidiary
level does not become democratic control at the parent level.
Calibration notes
Comparative anchor: Parent and owner entities
calibrated against listed subsidiaries, conglomerates, private-equity
firms, public companies, and mission-locked alternatives.
Linked evidence
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding is organized as the parent, owner,
or controlling holding structure described in the linked public
materials, not as a worker-, customer-, reader-, or public-governed
institution.[1]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's public structure concentrates binding control in shareholders,
family owners, funds, executives, or individual owners rather than the
subsidiaries' workers, users, customers, or affected communities.[2]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding controls or benefits from subsidiary, portfolio, platform,
media, retail, insurance, finance, or franchise economics at parent
scale.[3]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's public ownership model does not give ordinary workers across
controlled subsidiaries binding democratic authority over parent
strategy.[4]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's parent-level structure creates ordinary corporate, investment,
platform, or franchise exposure to layoffs, restructuring, divestitures,
or weak exit protections.[5]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's public materials do not show a durable rule requiring parent
owners or investors to absorb losses ahead of workers, customers,
readers, users, or affected communities.[6]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's parent position gives it market, platform, brand, portfolio,
distribution, data, or financing power over ordinary customers or
subsidiary constituencies.[7]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's controlled businesses include products or services with real
public or consumer utility, but that utility is filtered through
parent-level control and monetization incentives.[8]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's scale makes parent-level decisions consequential for many
people across subsidiaries, portfolio companies, customers, workers, or
public institutions.[9]
Governance
?
Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic
stakeholder control at 10.
2 / 10
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's public structure concentrates binding
control in shareholders, family owners, funds, executives, or individual
owners rather than the subsidiaries' workers, users, customers, or
affected communities.
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's public structure concentrates binding
control in shareholders, family owners, funds, executives, or individual
owners rather than the subsidiaries' workers, users, customers, or
affected communities. On Governance, Michał Kiciński / GOG holding
belongs near the bottom because parent ownership primarily serves
shareholders, funds, families, executives, or individual owners. Any
practical value at the subsidiary level does not become democratic
control at the parent level.
Calibration notes
Comparative anchor: Parent and owner entities
calibrated against listed subsidiaries, conglomerates, private-equity
firms, public companies, and mission-locked alternatives.
Linked evidence
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding is organized as the parent, owner, or controlling holding
structure described in the linked public materials, not as a worker-,
customer-, reader-, or public-governed institution.[1]
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's public structure concentrates
binding control in shareholders, family owners, funds, executives, or
individual owners rather than the subsidiaries' workers, users,
customers, or affected communities.[2]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding controls or benefits from subsidiary, portfolio, platform,
media, retail, insurance, finance, or franchise economics at parent
scale.[3]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's public ownership model does not give ordinary workers across
controlled subsidiaries binding democratic authority over parent
strategy.[4]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's parent-level structure creates ordinary corporate, investment,
platform, or franchise exposure to layoffs, restructuring, divestitures,
or weak exit protections.[5]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's public materials do not show a durable rule requiring parent
owners or investors to absorb losses ahead of workers, customers,
readers, users, or affected communities.[6]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's parent position gives it market, platform, brand, portfolio,
distribution, data, or financing power over ordinary customers or
subsidiary constituencies.[7]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's controlled businesses include products or services with real
public or consumer utility, but that utility is filtered through
parent-level control and monetization incentives.[8]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's scale makes parent-level decisions consequential for many
people across subsidiaries, portfolio companies, customers, workers, or
public institutions.[9]
Extraction
?
Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured
extraction judgment.
5 / 10
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding controls or benefits from subsidiary,
portfolio, platform, media, retail, insurance, finance, or franchise
economics at parent scale.
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding controls or benefits from subsidiary,
portfolio, platform, media, retail, insurance, finance, or franchise
economics at parent scale. On Extraction, Michał Kiciński / GOG holding
sits above ordinary parent-company baselines only where the evidence
shows durable product utility, open infrastructure, fairer conduct, or
some stakeholder constraint. It stays below cooperative and
public-interest anchors because parent control is not held by the people
most affected.
Calibration notes
Comparative anchor: Parent and owner entities
calibrated against listed subsidiaries, conglomerates, private-equity
firms, public companies, and mission-locked alternatives.
Linked evidence
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding is organized as the parent, owner, or controlling holding
structure described in the linked public materials, not as a worker-,
customer-, reader-, or public-governed institution.[1]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's public structure concentrates binding control in shareholders,
family owners, funds, executives, or individual owners rather than the
subsidiaries' workers, users, customers, or affected communities.[2]
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding controls or benefits from
subsidiary, portfolio, platform, media, retail, insurance, finance, or
franchise economics at parent scale.[3]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's public ownership model does not give ordinary workers across
controlled subsidiaries binding democratic authority over parent
strategy.[4]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's parent-level structure creates ordinary corporate, investment,
platform, or franchise exposure to layoffs, restructuring, divestitures,
or weak exit protections.[5]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's public materials do not show a durable rule requiring parent
owners or investors to absorb losses ahead of workers, customers,
readers, users, or affected communities.[6]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's parent position gives it market, platform, brand, portfolio,
distribution, data, or financing power over ordinary customers or
subsidiary constituencies.[7]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's controlled businesses include products or services with real
public or consumer utility, but that utility is filtered through
parent-level control and monetization incentives.[8]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's scale makes parent-level decisions consequential for many
people across subsidiaries, portfolio companies, customers, workers, or
public institutions.[9]
Labor Sovereignty
?
Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at
7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence
shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling,
retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of
worker voice, or extreme turnover.
2 / 7
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's public ownership model does not give
ordinary workers across controlled subsidiaries binding democratic
authority over parent strategy.
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's public ownership model does not give
ordinary workers across controlled subsidiaries binding democratic
authority over parent strategy. On Labor Sovereignty, Michał Kiciński /
GOG holding belongs near the bottom because parent ownership primarily
serves shareholders, funds, families, executives, or individual owners.
Any practical value at the subsidiary level does not become democratic
control at the parent level.
Calibration notes
Comparative anchor: Parent and owner entities
calibrated against listed subsidiaries, conglomerates, private-equity
firms, public companies, and mission-locked alternatives.
Linked evidence
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding is organized as the parent, owner, or controlling holding
structure described in the linked public materials, not as a worker-,
customer-, reader-, or public-governed institution.[1]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's public structure concentrates binding control in shareholders,
family owners, funds, executives, or individual owners rather than the
subsidiaries' workers, users, customers, or affected communities.[2]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding controls or benefits from subsidiary, portfolio, platform,
media, retail, insurance, finance, or franchise economics at parent
scale.[3]
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's public ownership model does not
give ordinary workers across controlled subsidiaries binding democratic
authority over parent strategy.[4]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's parent-level structure creates ordinary corporate, investment,
platform, or franchise exposure to layoffs, restructuring, divestitures,
or weak exit protections.[5]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's public materials do not show a durable rule requiring parent
owners or investors to absorb losses ahead of workers, customers,
readers, users, or affected communities.[6]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's parent position gives it market, platform, brand, portfolio,
distribution, data, or financing power over ordinary customers or
subsidiary constituencies.[7]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's controlled businesses include products or services with real
public or consumer utility, but that utility is filtered through
parent-level control and monetization incentives.[8]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's scale makes parent-level decisions consequential for many
people across subsidiaries, portfolio companies, customers, workers, or
public institutions.[9]
Solidarity with the
Unemployed
?
Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment,
and non-competes.
3 / 7
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's parent-level structure creates ordinary
corporate, investment, platform, or franchise exposure to layoffs,
restructuring, divestitures, or weak exit protections.
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's parent-level structure creates ordinary
corporate, investment, platform, or franchise exposure to layoffs,
restructuring, divestitures, or weak exit protections. On Solidarity
with the Unemployed, Michał Kiciński / GOG holding belongs in the
lower-middle tier: the parent has useful operating capacity, but the
structure still concentrates decisive power away from subsidiary
workers, customers, readers, users, or communities.
Calibration notes
Comparative anchor: Parent and owner entities
calibrated against listed subsidiaries, conglomerates, private-equity
firms, public companies, and mission-locked alternatives.
Linked evidence
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding is organized as the parent, owner, or controlling holding
structure described in the linked public materials, not as a worker-,
customer-, reader-, or public-governed institution.[1]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's public structure concentrates binding control in shareholders,
family owners, funds, executives, or individual owners rather than the
subsidiaries' workers, users, customers, or affected communities.[2]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding controls or benefits from subsidiary, portfolio, platform,
media, retail, insurance, finance, or franchise economics at parent
scale.[3]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's public ownership model does not give ordinary workers across
controlled subsidiaries binding democratic authority over parent
strategy.[4]
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's parent-level structure creates
ordinary corporate, investment, platform, or franchise exposure to
layoffs, restructuring, divestitures, or weak exit protections.[5]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's public materials do not show a durable rule requiring parent
owners or investors to absorb losses ahead of workers, customers,
readers, users, or affected communities.[6]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's parent position gives it market, platform, brand, portfolio,
distribution, data, or financing power over ordinary customers or
subsidiary constituencies.[7]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's controlled businesses include products or services with real
public or consumer utility, but that utility is filtered through
parent-level control and monetization incentives.[8]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's scale makes parent-level decisions consequential for many
people across subsidiaries, portfolio companies, customers, workers, or
public institutions.[9]
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
?
Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and
public obligations.
4 / 7
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's linked public materials do not show a
durable rule requiring parent owners or investors to absorb losses ahead
of workers, customers, readers, users, or affected communities.
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's linked public materials do not show a
durable rule requiring parent owners or investors to absorb losses ahead
of workers, customers, readers, users, or affected communities. On
Loss-Bearing Fidelity, Michał Kiciński / GOG holding belongs in the
lower-middle tier: the parent has useful operating capacity, but the
structure still concentrates decisive power away from subsidiary
workers, customers, readers, users, or communities.
Calibration notes
Comparative anchor: Parent and owner entities
calibrated against listed subsidiaries, conglomerates, private-equity
firms, public companies, and mission-locked alternatives.
Linked evidence
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding is organized as the parent, owner, or controlling holding
structure described in the linked public materials, not as a worker-,
customer-, reader-, or public-governed institution.[1]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's public structure concentrates binding control in shareholders,
family owners, funds, executives, or individual owners rather than the
subsidiaries' workers, users, customers, or affected communities.[2]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding controls or benefits from subsidiary, portfolio, platform,
media, retail, insurance, finance, or franchise economics at parent
scale.[3]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's public ownership model does not give ordinary workers across
controlled subsidiaries binding democratic authority over parent
strategy.[4]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's parent-level structure creates ordinary corporate, investment,
platform, or franchise exposure to layoffs, restructuring, divestitures,
or weak exit protections.[5]
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's public materials do not show a
durable rule requiring parent owners or investors to absorb losses ahead
of workers, customers, readers, users, or affected communities.[6]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's parent position gives it market, platform, brand, portfolio,
distribution, data, or financing power over ordinary customers or
subsidiary constituencies.[7]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's controlled businesses include products or services with real
public or consumer utility, but that utility is filtered through
parent-level control and monetization incentives.[8]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's scale makes parent-level decisions consequential for many
people across subsidiaries, portfolio companies, customers, workers, or
public institutions.[9]
Market Conduct
?
Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
4 / 5
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's parent position gives it market,
platform, brand, portfolio, distribution, data, or financing power over
ordinary customers or subsidiary constituencies.
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's parent position gives it market,
platform, brand, portfolio, distribution, data, or financing power over
ordinary customers or subsidiary constituencies. On Market Conduct,
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding belongs in the lower-middle tier: the
parent has useful operating capacity, but the structure still
concentrates decisive power away from subsidiary workers, customers,
readers, users, or communities.
Calibration notes
Comparative anchor: Parent and owner entities
calibrated against listed subsidiaries, conglomerates, private-equity
firms, public companies, and mission-locked alternatives.
Linked evidence
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding is organized as the parent, owner, or controlling holding
structure described in the linked public materials, not as a worker-,
customer-, reader-, or public-governed institution.[1]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's public structure concentrates binding control in shareholders,
family owners, funds, executives, or individual owners rather than the
subsidiaries' workers, users, customers, or affected communities.[2]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding controls or benefits from subsidiary, portfolio, platform,
media, retail, insurance, finance, or franchise economics at parent
scale.[3]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's public ownership model does not give ordinary workers across
controlled subsidiaries binding democratic authority over parent
strategy.[4]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's parent-level structure creates ordinary corporate, investment,
platform, or franchise exposure to layoffs, restructuring, divestitures,
or weak exit protections.[5]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's public materials do not show a durable rule requiring parent
owners or investors to absorb losses ahead of workers, customers,
readers, users, or affected communities.[6]
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's parent position gives it market,
platform, brand, portfolio, distribution, data, or financing power over
ordinary customers or subsidiary constituencies.[7]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's controlled businesses include products or services with real
public or consumer utility, but that utility is filtered through
parent-level control and monetization incentives.[8]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's scale makes parent-level decisions consequential for many
people across subsidiaries, portfolio companies, customers, workers, or
public institutions.[9]
Product Integrity
?
Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
5 / 5
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's controlled businesses include products
or services with real public or consumer utility, but that utility is
filtered through parent-level control and monetization incentives.
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's controlled businesses include products
or services with real public or consumer utility, but that utility is
filtered through parent-level control and monetization incentives. On
Product Integrity, Michał Kiciński / GOG holding sits above ordinary
parent-company baselines only where the evidence shows durable product
utility, open infrastructure, fairer conduct, or some stakeholder
constraint. It stays below cooperative and public-interest anchors
because parent control is not held by the people most affected.
Calibration notes
Comparative anchor: Parent and owner entities
calibrated against listed subsidiaries, conglomerates, private-equity
firms, public companies, and mission-locked alternatives.
Linked evidence
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding is organized as the parent, owner, or controlling holding
structure described in the linked public materials, not as a worker-,
customer-, reader-, or public-governed institution.[1]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's public structure concentrates binding control in shareholders,
family owners, funds, executives, or individual owners rather than the
subsidiaries' workers, users, customers, or affected communities.[2]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding controls or benefits from subsidiary, portfolio, platform,
media, retail, insurance, finance, or franchise economics at parent
scale.[3]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's public ownership model does not give ordinary workers across
controlled subsidiaries binding democratic authority over parent
strategy.[4]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's parent-level structure creates ordinary corporate, investment,
platform, or franchise exposure to layoffs, restructuring, divestitures,
or weak exit protections.[5]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's public materials do not show a durable rule requiring parent
owners or investors to absorb losses ahead of workers, customers,
readers, users, or affected communities.[6]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's parent position gives it market, platform, brand, portfolio,
distribution, data, or financing power over ordinary customers or
subsidiary constituencies.[7]
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's controlled businesses include
products or services with real public or consumer utility, but that
utility is filtered through parent-level control and monetization
incentives.[8]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's scale makes parent-level decisions consequential for many
people across subsidiaries, portfolio companies, customers, workers, or
public institutions.[9]
Scale Integrity
?
Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
4 / 5
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's scale makes parent-level decisions
consequential for many people across subsidiaries, portfolio companies,
customers, workers, or public institutions.
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's scale makes parent-level decisions
consequential for many people across subsidiaries, portfolio companies,
customers, workers, or public institutions. On Scale Integrity, Michał
Kiciński / GOG holding belongs in the lower-middle tier: the parent has
useful operating capacity, but the structure still concentrates decisive
power away from subsidiary workers, customers, readers, users, or
communities.
Calibration notes
Comparative anchor: Parent and owner entities
calibrated against listed subsidiaries, conglomerates, private-equity
firms, public companies, and mission-locked alternatives.
Linked evidence
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding is organized as the parent, owner, or controlling holding
structure described in the linked public materials, not as a worker-,
customer-, reader-, or public-governed institution.[1]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's public structure concentrates binding control in shareholders,
family owners, funds, executives, or individual owners rather than the
subsidiaries' workers, users, customers, or affected communities.[2]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding controls or benefits from subsidiary, portfolio, platform,
media, retail, insurance, finance, or franchise economics at parent
scale.[3]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's public ownership model does not give ordinary workers across
controlled subsidiaries binding democratic authority over parent
strategy.[4]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's parent-level structure creates ordinary corporate, investment,
platform, or franchise exposure to layoffs, restructuring, divestitures,
or weak exit protections.[5]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's public materials do not show a durable rule requiring parent
owners or investors to absorb losses ahead of workers, customers,
readers, users, or affected communities.[6]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's parent position gives it market, platform, brand, portfolio,
distribution, data, or financing power over ordinary customers or
subsidiary constituencies.[7]
contextMichał Kiciński / GOG
holding's controlled businesses include products or services with real
public or consumer utility, but that utility is filtered through
parent-level control and monetization incentives.[8]
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's scale makes parent-level decisions
consequential for many people across subsidiaries, portfolio companies,
customers, workers, or public institutions.[9]
Penalties
Penalty
Applied
Why this penalty
Reversibility
?
Applied when positive conduct depends on current living leaders,
founders, family owners, or other person-contingent governance rather
than durable structure. Range: -5 to 0.
-5
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's public parent-level model makes
Reversibility directly relevant through owner dependence, investor
control, policy influence, data power, product externalities, identity
pressure, opacity, or harmful subsidiary business lines.
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's public parent-level model makes
Reversibility directly relevant through owner dependence, investor
control, policy influence, data power, product externalities, identity
pressure, opacity, or harmful subsidiary business lines. This warrants a
Reversibility penalty because parent control makes the cited risk
materially relevant across owned brands, portfolio companies, users,
customers, workers, or public institutions. The penalty is calibrated to
the severity of that parent-level exposure rather than imported
mechanically from any one subsidiary.
Calibration notes
Comparative anchor: Parent and owner entities
calibrated against listed subsidiaries, conglomerates, private-equity
firms, public companies, and mission-locked alternatives.
Linked evidence
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's public parent-level model makes
Reversibility directly relevant through owner dependence, investor
control, policy influence, data power, product externalities, identity
pressure, opacity, or harmful subsidiary business lines.[11]
Identity Capture
?
Customer pressure, employee pressure, and pervasive identity saturation.
Range: -3 to 0.
-1
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's public parent-level model makes Identity
Capture directly relevant through owner dependence, investor control,
policy influence, data power, product…
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's public parent-level model makes Identity
Capture directly relevant through owner dependence, investor control,
policy influence, data power, product externalities, identity pressure,
opacity, or harmful subsidiary business lines. This warrants a Identity
Capture penalty because parent control makes the cited risk materially
relevant across owned brands, portfolio companies, users, customers,
workers, or public institutions. The penalty is calibrated to the
severity of that parent-level exposure rather than imported mechanically
from any one subsidiary.
Calibration notes
Comparative anchor: Parent and owner entities
calibrated against listed subsidiaries, conglomerates, private-equity
firms, public companies, and mission-locked alternatives.
Linked evidence
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's public parent-level model makes
Identity Capture directly relevant through owner dependence, investor
control, policy influence, data power, product externalities, identity
pressure, opacity, or harmful subsidiary business lines.[12]
Bonus Credits
Bonus
Credit
Why this credit
Good Deal
?
Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low
lock-in, and clear customer surplus.
1 / 3
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's public record shows a limited practice
that can support Good Deal credit, but the parent structure does not
convert that practice into democratic stakeholder control.
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's public record shows a limited practice
that can support Good Deal credit, but the parent structure does not
convert that practice into democratic stakeholder control. This supports
limited Good Deal credit because the parent-level record shows a real
but partial practice. The credit remains small because ordinary parent
control can still override that practice.
Calibration notes
Comparative anchor: Parent and owner entities
calibrated against listed subsidiaries, conglomerates, private-equity
firms, public companies, and mission-locked alternatives.
Linked evidence
Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's public record describes the
parent-control structure for GOG and related CD PROJEKT ownership rather
than a broad democratic stakeholder-control arrangement.[10]
Confidence Basis
Confidence Basis
Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not
typed into the profile by hand.
This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail.
AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.
Claim confidence17/20
12 verified linked claims
Source quality10/18
Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability
Direct axis-specific claims14/18
12 direct claims across 12 active components
Dispute load12/12
0 disputed claims on this entity
Recency10/10
Newest accepted timestamp: May 13, 2026
Reviewer status7/12
Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding
Component coverage10/10
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1Michał Kiciński / GOG holding is
organized as the parent, owner, or controlling holding structure
described in the linked public materials, not as a worker-, customer-,
reader-, or public-governed institution.
2Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's
public structure concentrates binding control in shareholders, family
owners, funds, executives, or individual owners rather than the
subsidiaries' workers, users, customers, or affected communities.
4Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's
public ownership model does not give ordinary workers across controlled
subsidiaries binding democratic authority over parent strategy.
6Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's
public materials do not show a durable rule requiring parent owners or
investors to absorb losses ahead of workers, customers, readers, users,
or affected communities.
Loss Bearing FidelityVerifiedMedium
confidenceHuman-reviewed
7Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's
parent position gives it market, platform, brand, portfolio,
distribution, data, or financing power over ordinary customers or
subsidiary constituencies.
8Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's
controlled businesses include products or services with real public or
consumer utility, but that utility is filtered through parent-level
control and monetization incentives.
9Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's scale
makes parent-level decisions consequential for many people across
subsidiaries, portfolio companies, customers, workers, or public
institutions.
10Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's
public record describes the parent-control structure for GOG and related
CD PROJEKT ownership rather than a broad democratic stakeholder-control
arrangement.
11Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's
public parent-level model makes Reversibility directly relevant through
owner dependence, investor control, policy influence, data power,
product externalities, identity pressure, opacity, or harmful subsidiary
business lines.
12Michał Kiciński / GOG holding's
public parent-level model makes Identity Capture directly relevant
through owner dependence, investor control, policy influence, data
power, product externalities, identity pressure, opacity, or harmful
subsidiary business lines.
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