It's not an uncommon fault to overlook or misunderstand some details in legal agreement.
Digital distribution wasn't the main channel for selling games, when Drakensang: The River of Time and Phileasson's Secret were released.

Therefore, DTP could underestimate the importance of digital distribution rights at the moment of signing contract.

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When these games were initially released on Steam, they were region-locked and unavailable in Europe. So, there was some sort of a legal issue.

Then the US publisher has sorted it out. And now Drakensang: The River of Time and Phileasson's Secret ( published by Cosmi ) are available almost worldwide.
Divinity 2 had been published in US by CDV Software. Nowadays, Larian publish all their games themselves.

DTP seems to hold full rights over the original Drakensang, but not over its sequel.
I don't think so. As I've said already, different Drakensang games have been published on Steam by different companies, at different times and with different regional restrictions.

Digital distribution of these games has always been unrelated to each other.

Besides, GOG should be aware of the fact, that The River of Time is working fine on Win 10 ( with some minor tweaks, which is common for GOG versions ).

I assume, they would have released the game already, if they legally could.

Actually, some games on GOG feature only German language support ( Anstoss 2 and 3 ).

They are sports manager simulations, so complete understanding of language is not very important. While Drakensang is a story-driven RPG.

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I think, there is a small chance for The River of Time and Phileasson's Secret to be released on GOG at some point in future, given the high demand for these games.

But better results can be achieved by either updating the open-sourced Nebula Device 3 engine, or creating a new modern engine, based on the available source code.

This way is independent of publishers and stores. And there will be no compatibility issues with modern software and hardware.

I Want it, and i want it now (or at least ASAP) ;)
Definitly an instabuy!

+1

I don´t understand why does it take so long to release the River of TIme + DLC here:

- Both the former Drakensang and RoT is owned by the same company, same goes for DLC.
- English translation of DLC was missing in the beginning (it was only in German), but was added later on via patch - again, the same company.

I really would love to own it here + I thought it will be released shortly after the first one.
If anyone from blues can shed a light on this - why does it take so damn long!??

I also would love to have RoT here!

Also looking forward to a GOG release of the rest of them. Seeing as they're available on Steam here in the US, I don't think there are legal issues in doing so.

I already own the Complete edition disk set. However, I vaguely recall the disk DRM being questionable at best. Having had one DVD-R/RW drive get partially borked by such shoddy disk DRM in the late 2000s, I'm always hesitant to try them on my PC. Especially now that the software has aged and could be even more troublesome. Plus it requires the disk in the drive while playing - another annoyance.

That's a good point, they're available on Steam here so... Hmm.

Uh, steam says game is not available in my country..
I played this long time ago from retail disc.

Came here to hopefully get it again, but i guess that wont happen? :-/

Would also prefer the GOG version of these.
But I made a compromise... bought the "complete saga" from Ebay (there are still copies sold from around 15-25 bucks apparently) and installed these two missing titles from the DVD, after I installed my copy of the GOG version of Drakensang. Apparently they are different games.. Even the DVD installer treats them as different installations.

plsss

Real shame it's still not available - it surpasses its predecessor in pretty much every respect and deserves to be more widely known.

i cant even get it on steam due to
This item is currently unavailable in your region

Look for this one. Complete

Drakensang (Platinum Edition)

DRM free and you don't need the disc to play it.

I wonder GOG can't get it.

Hello Caranthir1976!

I guess it is not a question to 'get it' here, rather the implication, that both "River of Time" and "Phileason's Secret" seem to not being able to run in full screen depending on modern garaphics hardware!
Maybe GOG.COM does not want to release it to its customers only supporting a windowed mode of operation.

If your computer or laptop provides an onboard graphics solution it is well likely to be able to run normaly in full screen.
My Windows 10 business laptop is doing so with the version from the collection you mentioned.
However, modern graphics card architectures seem to have difficulties with it, and it depends on specific models and drivers whether or not the game would run.

Kind regards,
foxgog