My very blunt and honest statement is simply that those games are in many cases considered "AAA", perhaps not with the rated gameplay but with their costs and those huge companies are "on another level of economical demand". DRM free is no easy task but it is doable, it is possible... but the weak spot is simply "the sales". There are in many cases just to less sales on GOG and i even heard some indie devs saying "not worth it releasing on GOG". Imagine what a big company with even higher expectations got to say?
This is the weak spot... either GOG is able to increase its gamer-base or they will in many cases simply not be able to attract "huge games". By huge i do not even necessarily mean game with high dev costs, even games with a high demand on another platform... so those devs/publishers may think "we just do not need GOG... we already are swimming in a lake of money".
I know it does not sound to fun, but thats the sheer reality, nothing else. The economy is not really working in favor of GOG. Yet GOG is not alone, because with the exception of Steam not a single PC-game-shop is in any condition where any investor would "jump very high because of joy"... not gonna happen any time soon. We basically created a quasi-monopoly but if gamers and industry are fine with it, then it is simply "status quo", and if not... some changes may slowly appear over time. It does not look bad for GOG because for example slowly they are getting increased attention from several Japanese publishers, so GOG is able to move forward; but as long as they do not have a lot of coins in order to hook it up as a lure... then even EGS may be able to pull out more AAA-"gold-fishes" out of the ocean full of games.
Post edited September 03, 2025 by Xeshra