What do you guess, how much % of the new releases on GOG currently are games which are at least 10 years old? I think the big majority is new stuff. I'm still waiting for some classics like Black & White.

Well, Kentucky Route Zero comes close to being 10 years old! ;P

It's a lot easier to negotiate a sales contract with an existing company than a defunct one. Or for a game whose license holder is easy to determine. For that reason alone it makes sense that newer games would be released more frequently.

Not to mention the fact that GoG has already released a bunch of older games, presumably the ones they've released already were the low hanging fruit.... so it will only get harder to release older games as time goes on.

if you browse all games and order by oldest first there are 76 pages.
the first 20 pages are 2010 or below.
so about 26% a decade or more old, assuming each entry is a single game and not a dlc or artbook or something.
also slightly skewed as some games are sold as a pack and not individually, but this is probably roughly correct.

Anyway, when JMich was still keeping track of old and new releases, the data showed that the percentage of "old" game releases was significantly lower than new game releases, but that the number of "old" game releases was quite steady over the years, meaning that it did not really decrease since the time GOG dropped the name "Good Old Games". We don't have this data for the last 1-2 years anymore, but I'd expect that not a lot has changed about that. The "old" game releases are harder to find in the flood of new games, but they are still coming. And last year we got some highly wished for classics that noone ever thought would be here one day, like Diablo and Blade Runner.

How about the Commandos 2 HD version that has nearly everyone else in such a hullabaloo? :)

As more games release, wouldn't it be harder to find games deemed 'good old games'.
GoG is shat on a lot, but it naturally gets harder and harder to release more old games.
and yea, i just said the same shit twice.

Many of the highly-desired classics remaining, especially stuff like Black & White, are in really legally murky circumstances or perhaps a deadlock. Afaik B&W rights are split between EA and Microsoft, or that's what people surmise.

We did get freakin' Blade Runner not too long ago, and a bunch of other classics like Hexplore, Submarine Titans, Arabian Knights (well, infamous maybe not classic), etc. And Orcs and Men is 8 years old and Styx 1 is 6 years.

You'll just have to be patient, or get an "abandonware" copy and try to get it working.

Well, most of the releases in that year were old games back then already. But all of the games released on GOG in 2012 when they opened up the gates for new games will be "old" soon, too. ;)

Older games do come here, but there's also definitely been a significant slowdown for the rate at which some major publishers release older AAA's. Eg:-

Bethesda - Fallout New Vegas (2010) launched here in 2017 after 7 years. Today there's zero sign of Skyrim (2011) or Dishonored (2012) after 8-9 years.

Square Enix - Thief Deadly Shadows (2004) launched here in 2012 after 8 years. Today there's zero sign of Deus Ex: Human Revolution (2011) or Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009) after 9-11 years.

Ubisoft - Far Cry (2004) launched here in 2009 after 5 years. Today there's zero sign of Far Cry 3 (2012), Far Cry 4 & Watch Dogs (2014) after 6-8 years.

The combination of being hostile to DRM-Free, running their own store-fronts and "remake-itus" means that some older games by some publishers will probably never come here (Microsoft being a perfect example of a publisher that fits all three of those simultaneously and literally not one single game release here). It would be nice if that changed, but I've long given up hope on GOG being some universal digital archive for 90's / 2000's games, and now have no reluctance at all in grabbing a disc version and patching up games like Age of Empires, Black & White, Freelancer, NOLF, etc, rather than waiting in hope for another 20 years.

I don't think you can speak of a rate though, when the releases that did happen were a one-time event, not a steady stream of releases. I think those publishers decide on a case-to-case basis and only give (or gave) GOG the games that don't sell all that much on other stores anymore. It's probably more to do with the overall popularity and sales figures than the age. Another possibility could be that the publishers gave GOG those older games as an experiment and then decided the profit from the GOG sales is not high enough for them to bother bringing more of their titles here.

What about being scared of DRM-free?

That's kind of implicit in what I wrote above, at least that's what I meant to imply. They don't seem to mind their older games going DRM-free once the sale figures drop (I suppose), but with the games that still sell well on Steam and their own platforms, they prefer not to take risks.

Oh okay.