In my opinion, the promotions for anno are over. But at least the games are still on sale and ultimately not that expensive. So for those who want drm free, nothing prevents them from buying it. It's like that instead of it being removed.

DRM-free versions of the South Park games would be cool and I think the creators would not mind DRM-free versions, especially now that the initial big sales are probably done.

Ah i mentioned this before about anno games but had to get anno 1701 and 1503 on full price here, i did get anno 1404 and then anno 1602 for quite cheap here.

Just let me tell you i am playing the first released anno 1602 and they can be a huge time sink if you want to play all scenarios.

But the weird thing is settlers also has history editions and has sales on gog even though it's original version not history.

In between ancient scraps and recent years Ubi shitshow there are also missing good games like rest of single player "Tom Clancy's" titles, Assassin's Creed 2-4, Far Cry 3 + Blood Dragon, Heroes 6-7 (not as bad as some claim), M&M X, Driver San Francisco, maybe some Watch Dogs.

FYI, it's true again this summer. Every Ubisoft game on sale... except Anno!

https://www.gog.com/en/games?publishers=ubisoft&page=2

Really silly we haven't gotten a new batch of Ubi games in forever. Not like they're worried about DRM for stuff like Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, and I bet GOG could would be willing to use the fan patches to fix Pandora Tomorrow and let it be sold again.

True, very hard to get excited about Ubisoft sales when they haven't had a release on GOG in ages.

THIS,
I have given up hope on ever getting the first generation of Rainbow Six games here...though that is probably one of my most desired games. All we got was the first Rainbow Six game, and even that did not have the expansion. Uh, the first generation of Rainbow Six games are among the best shooters ever made. You have to really think and plan as well as have a quick finger reaction.
This does not aplly to the post Rainbow Six 3 games.Tb3 was the last game to keep the tactical/planning elements. The games after that dropped everything that Made Rainbow Six unique and it became just another shooter.

Both EA and Ubisoft haven't released since around 2016. (Actually, we got Brothers In Arms in 2019 from Ubi) WinterSnowfall has suggested "EA and Ubisoft were very different companies when they signed up with GOG. Well, Ubisoft mostly." (I haven't really followed the companies' paths and didn't ask for clarification so somebody else will have to explain what he means.)

My default guess (nothing really new that I haven't said before) is said billion-dollar companies generally just don't want to deal with million-dollar GOG.

At least we have SEGA aboard now. Until they follow the same path and stop releasing, and we're only left with delicious lack-of-AAAs-and-going-out-of-business suffering. ;)

And yet the Ubisoft Uplay integration on Galaxy still doesn't work

I doubt UbiSoft wants to give up 30% of their sales (or whatever GOG's deal w/ them is) just for hosting the game on GOG & being sold here.

Let's face it - game being sold on their own client-apps exist for a reason: so they can take 100% of their sales to their own store-front. It's all about $.

And also, it's not like GOG is the numero-uno digital store for selling games - I wish it was b/c I love DRM-FREE and all, but it ain't this way. Right now, Steam's the place for that still digitally for dev's/pubs to sell games; and Epic seems to be following them. Some companies are going to see putting games on a smaller fan-base like GOG as not worth the $, time, effort, and/or resources unfortunately.

Of course, as a consumer - I'd love of every game to hit GOG DRM-FREE style...but that ain't gonna always happen. GOG is great for DRM-FREE, which is great for consumers and friendly to them - but not all companies are down for that to play ball for DRM-FREE requirement on all or many of their titles for them to hit GOG.

Companies want to keep piracy down, even if said game ain't heavily pirated. Even if it's all in their head that putting DRM and/or client-app account-based stuff w/ servers protects their games, they want control. All about them having control of their games and products, TBH.

Also, UbiSoft has UbiSoft+ subscription thing - which is similar to Microsoft's Game Pass. They're gonna boast in all ways possible and keep games on their service, leaving that as a compelling reason to get users to "buy" (and yes, I use that time insanely loosely here) into the game-rental subscription thing / service.

Epic is also business-wise good for UbiSoft b/c 12% is much less than 30% from Steam or whatever GOG (probably 30% there?) and other stores charge. Also, who knows what kind of $ Epic is tossing Ubi's way to keep Ubi's games away from especially Steam and other services too.

For more modern-games utilizing UPLAY / UbiSoft Connect - well, now you have the problems of those games that use those proprietary systems from UPLAY. Those can't come to GOG unless they totally get re-worked for GOG - they'd have to disable all the account-required stuff, features, servers, etc that aren't GOG's to get them here; and these games would have to work offline too, especially the single-player stuff.

And some GOG users likely won't be happy on GOG, if say said game doesn't get GOG Galaxy support for Achievements, Cloud Saves, and things of that sort. They might not buy it here on GOG or re-buy it here, if sale this version's inferior to say other versions. And there's also that the company would need to spend time, money, resources, employee-power all on doing a GOG version - I'd LOVE to see it, of course...but will they (UbiSoft) be willing to do this?

I've said this before - this is why I think Achievements should be built in-game first & foremost; and why MP skirmish and co-op modes should also support LAN/TP-ICP & also be able to work offline w/ bots. This way, if they say don't support Galaxy's suites - well, you can still get Achievements offline and can get MP going w/ some friends old-school style; at least the basic stuff's there.

I think, especially in reference to EA and Ubi that I've seen mentioned here in the thread, that the main issue with getting any games brought over to Gog has to be their implementation of their own launchers and storefronts. I doubt companies want to sell games where they get less than 100% of the profit, especially with their shortsighted view on piracy and DRM, if they don't have to.

Last time I'm bumping this thread, but yeah, still no sale for Anno. Honestly, I might get 1404 anyway at some point. If a sale will never come, I don't have to wait and can pick it up sooner rather than later! :D

But a discount would be nice...

ANNO IS FINALLY ON SALE AGAIN!

https://www.gog.com/en/games?publishers=ubisoft