ask ci games.

Yeah they actually had a regular info-mail, so I tried that one - I'll let you know if I get any answer!

Won't waste too much thread space here, but...

... IMHO SGW3 is a solid game -- and a good Far Cry 2 "clone" -- just short of great (due mainly to technical issues). SGW CONTRACTS' corridor shooting was deflating after 3's open world. SGW CONTRACTS 2 was a marked improvement over CONTRACTS, but still not as good as SGW3.

Yeah, military FPS are definitely slim pickings on GOG.

Any idea why the cadence of AAA or AA releases have slowed down significantly on GoG.
I feel of late there are very few good releases.

I don't know, but my guess is...

... as the global economy contracts...

... corporations are holding more tightly to their products and IP.

Is anyone's guess really, the weeks coming up to the anniversary, and the anniversary itself, have been really bad, and it doesn't seem to be picking up

I would personally argue that the period of time where we got games like Skyrim, Yakuza, and Fallout 4 were an anomaly; for most of its existence, GOG has been overlooked by a large number of triple-A developers. Maybe they throw you a bone and you get one or two very old games, but that's it.

In addition, for each major release GOG gets, it's one fewer release they can get. Law of diminishing returns and all that.

Finally, it's possible the sales numbers just didn't meet developer/publisher expectations. There's always lots of hype when a big game releases, but also hundreds of posts saying something to the effect of "Nice! Wishlisted for later" or "I'll definitely grab this when it's discounted", which suggests to me that the people bringing their games here aren't really getting much in return, especially compared to that other storefront.

I don't think they have actually "slowed down significantly," since GOG always only releases a small number of top tier premium games in any given year, and with very long droughts between the release of high quality premium games.

So 2023 is no different in that regard.

Rather, it's just another continuation of the usual status quo that happens on GOG every single year.

One thing that is slightly different about 2023 though, is that GOG released their Endless Space releases very shortly after their Yakuza series releases, which typically is probably something that GOG wouldn't usually have done, since GOG usually prefers to space out & stagger the releases of the very few premium quality games that they acquire in any given year, but that time, they didn't for some strange & unknown reason.

Don't worry. New games are getting older and older :)

The being of the year was strong for GOG. Unless you're talking about brand new AA/AAA games being released?

We had serval big name games released. it's always seem slow this time of the year for GOG, with releasing games. Imo

They usually wait until winter sales to release a buch of games.

Well they kind of are still releaseing lot's of old games. Dawn of war 1 and 2 are old now. So is endless space 1. Even Fallout 4 is pretty much 7 year old game.

Remember the time when people stopped complaining about the perceived lack of old games? Yeah, me neither. =P

Everything everywhere to ever exist is GOG's fault.

Are indies not good? Or is it more a dopamine thing / "wow, GOG got a AAA game! GOG actually got noticed by a big studio!"? (Edit: This sounds rude but I meant it as a sincere question, sorry.)

AAA and AA releases have always been very slow to release on GOG. That said, I think we'll get some more before the end of the year, and then virtually none from Jan 2024 until Summer 2024 (if the past few years are an accurate pattern - "Springtime for Indies").

Maybe a little surprise regarding the Halloween promo on a good horror game with a little luck that has already happened in the past.

Kona 2: Brume will be released on GOG according to the developer who commented on the games steam discussion board.