I also have the retail Drakensang Complete Collection, though I'd certainly buy River of Time if it comes to GOG.

Heck I'd even buy the Complete version if it came here, even though I just bought the original Drakensang from GOG.
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I hope too!

No problem my friend.

On a side, kinda humorous, completely unrelated story:
The Drakensang complete boxed version really sucked. It was both games but instead of putting it all on 1 disc they gave you each game on it's own disc, then they just threw it in a dvd case made for 1 dvd so the other game was just slamming around inside the case. Finally they printed off a picture of the box art and stamped "COMPLETE" on the front. lol god bless capitalism!

I would like to buy so whole packkage if there all here. I like to have it in my libary

Yes please, when I saw Drakensang I pressed buy without even checking the price tag. I own River of Time as a disc, but i have no physical drive anymore. Please bring it to GOG :D

Instant buy

+1

Same here

Since some were talking about this earlier...

I have a physical copy of Drakensang Complete Saga. It contains Drakensang, The Rover of Time and Phileasson's Secret. All games are on one disc and all work in Win10 but must be run in windowed mode.

I too have the Complete Sage, but I still prefer to have a GOG version. It also beats putting in the CD/DVD each time to play. :)
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Count me in as well - loved River of Time. Unfortunately I only "owned" it @gamesload. Instant rebuy on GOG :)

I think, it is rather organizational than technical issue.

Drakensang: The River of Time and Phileasson's Secret are published on Steam by US publisher Cosmi corporation, which has acquired ValuSoft after THQ bankruptcy.
Only English versions are available. And these games are region-locked in some countries ( I'm not sure where exactly, because I checked using different circuits in Tor browser ).

The original Drakensang is published by DTP Entertainment itself. It is available in German, English and French ( same as on GOG ). And it seems to be region-free.

I assume, that DTP Entertainment does not have the rights for English localization. And Cosmi does not want to publish these games anywhere, but on Steam.

However, it seems that French publisher Micro Application had published English localization of Drakensang: The River of Time ( DVD release ).
If it is a different localization, it could possibly be licensed by either DTP or GOG instead of Cosmi version.

As for technical problems, Radon Labs had open-sourced Nebula Device 3 engine, which is used for all their Drakensang games:

https://code.google.com/archive/p/nebuladevice/source/default/source

Therefore, it can be fixed and optimized to run all Drakensang games on modern operating systems. It will take a lot of hard work, but if enthusiastic fan community will organize, it is absolutely possible.

In this case, we will be able to play DRM-free versions of Drakensang: The River of Time and Phileasson's Secret by using open-source engine and linking resources from games purchased elsewhere.

The UK DVD-ROM releases of both Drakensang and Drakensang: The River of Time were published by DTP, so they clearly do have rights to the English version. The Drakensang manual credits 5 people at DTP Entertainment for localisation, so presumably DTP did all the translation work themselves.

Oh, and another +1 for River of Time/Phileasson's Secret...

I don't have the US version so can't comment, sorry.
Without seeing the terms of DTP's contract with their US distributor it isn't possible to comment definitively - but previous examples where a European publisher has made arrangements with a US company have tended to be quite limited (distribution rights in US/North America only) so the idea of DTP "losing" (or signing away) their rights to the English version isn't very plausible, particularly when they did the translation in the first place.

Also such contracts tend to be media-specific - physical and digital versions are treated as separate entities. Therefore even if DTP had "complications" with the physical release, it wouldn't be reflected in the digital one.

Finally, DTP was the publisher for Divinity 2 (first released on DVD-ROM in 2009) so it is safe to assume they're experienced hands at this. And of course, they published the original Drakensang. So it's more likely that the delay is either with GOG's release schedule (they've been adding a lot of new games lately) or a technical problem, most likely to due with Win10/11 compatibility.