Truth437: I'm really hoping GOG has multiple big-time AAA and indie releases lined up before the end of the GOG Winter Sale.
comicbookguy90: I feel like the only games GoG is getting were ones that were timed Epic exclusives and really small indie studios.
Similar to what Grargar said, most AAA studios don't give a crap about GOG, since GOG is
significantly smaller than Steam and co.;
but we are at least getting new games from publishers like THQNordic/Deep Silver and Devolver Digital and bigger "indie" studios, and old games from Ziggurat. And Control is coming up soon. (none of these games interest me personally but they're not a small deal either)
IMO, generally only expect maybe a couple AAA games a year, if that. (Seemingly even
old AAA games won't be showing up anytime soon.) If someone wants the latest big-budget titles they'll have to go elsewhere usually. (Honestly I don't know how GOG got Bethesda and Square Enix to release more games here earlier this year, it'd be interesting to learn how that came about. Maybe Covid had the publishers so worried and so incredibly desperate they'd even release on GOG?)
Phasmid: Most likely reason is:
Steamworks integration. FEAR1 & 2 had non steamworks versions which only needed SecuROM to be nixed, FEAR3 had steamworks baked in from inception. Given there was no GOG steam 'wrapper' until recently it would be too much work to unpick all the integrations.
If Dead Island uses Steamworks maybe that's why it isn't here yet and may never show up.
Could that also suggest there'll be a whole generation of "good old games" that will never come to GOG, at least ones that used Steamworks?