Even if it takes a whooping 10 years, like in Blade Runner's case.

GoG is likely always working on something related to one of the HIGHLY requested titles behind the scenes. It's just that it takes a god damn long time for all the pieces (technicalities, legalities, anniversaries, etc) to come together and the title in question is released eventually.

For example, the frequently mentioned The Operative: No One Lives Forever turns 20 years old this November, the 9th.
Now let's speculate that GoG did the impossible and successfully untangled the infamously untangeable rights situation by some means or other some time ago and already has a working and ready-to-be-put-on-sale digital build gathering digital dust on a hard disk at GoG HQ for literal years.
It's not getting a release right away and asap because either the publisher or GoG themselves wants to wait for the right opportunity and maximum effect. Which, that's right, is mostly an anniversary, often of the original release date way back when.

The same scenario (with variations in regards to the legalities or technicalities of course) could be applied to all the other titles with +x000 or +x0000 votes on the community wishlist.

This, and lets not forget that even if GOG would wish to release NOLF immediately after they got all the paperwork done, they can't just unilaterally go and delay the releases of whatever other games they must have already scheduled in advance and obviously releasing it simultaneously with another game would likely not please the latter's right holders either.

Indeed, the rights situation with "No One Lives Forever" is very difficult, but as I always do tell: Where there is a will, there is a way...never forget!

PS: Would you all do compare the rights situation of "No One Lives Forever" with the rights situation with a game like "Star Trek: Klingon Academy"? Interplay does still exist and is the rights holder...so where is the exact issue with this game compare with a game like "Star Trek: Starfleet Academy"?

What about Bloodwych? The game was released weeks ago on Steam, so no one can tell me that it`s still lost in license hell. Why isn`t it on GoG yet?

The publisher probably felt they'd make more monies on Steam, or just forgot about GOG.

Just to stress here: it is not like Valve brought the game to Steam, contacting the publisher and saying "Could you release your old Bloodwych game on Steam, please?!?". The publisher probably just went ahead and published it on Steam, not sure if Valve even noticed it. Not sure if there is any kind of acceptance criteria by Valve nowadays, at least for single-player games.

You are forgetting that some companies LOVE DRM and/or steam and only sell there, even though GOG has been a thing for years.

Yes, where there is a will there's a way, but if an IP holder says no then there's not much that can be done(legally speaking)....well unless they sell off the IP, maybe.

Could be another of said scenarios where publishers or GoG themselves are waiting for the right moment to release things.
Bloodwych is too obscure for the anniversary approach, so my bet is on it being part of either another dungeon crawler centric compilation (together with Aeon of Sands - The Trail, Das Geisterschiff, Der Geisterturm, Ruzar - The Life Stone, The Fall of the Dungeon Guardians etc.) or a bundle of re-released old school RPGs/dungeon crawlers like Dungeon Master I + II, Questron or Phantasie (if Doug Wood's inquiry/submission is successful) in the hopefully not so distant future.

Convoluted sentence.

Geduld du haben musst, junger Padawan.
Insbesondere bei allem was GoG angeht.

Lots of people who are here came for good old games. GOG's name changing doesn't cancel this fact. It doesn't mean they can't sell newer or different games here, of course. I buy such games, too, even though I am here primarily for old games.

That's contradicting statements that you make. Besides, if the remaining old games are rare, where are Civilization, Dune, Dungeon Master, The Horde, MechWarrior, Commander Keen, Comanche: Maximum Overkill, Hired Guns, King's Bounty, Lemmings, Shadow Caster, F1 Grand Prix, Archon Ultra? - I could go on naming really popular games that are still not here.

To be fair, GOG has done reasonably good job recently bringing quire a few good old games, like Warlords, Warcraft, Fields of Glory, The Legacy, and a few others. I can't say that times have changed much in this regard.