blotunga: Every EA sale we complain about lack of new EA releases. And yet nothing happens :)
tfishell: Delicious suffering. ;)
NuffCatnip: I don't think we'll get new titles, at least I stopped holding my breath some time ago.
New releases would be a nice surprise but I certainly don't expect EA to release something on gog (ever) again.
Some goes for most other AAA publishers, we might get the occasional 10 to 15 + year old triple A game, but nothing more I'd say. Occasional, as in 1 per year and even that is an exaggeration.
tfishell: We got a decent number of titles from AAA publishers (like Bethesda and Square Enix) the past few years compared to 2022 thus far. I wonder what changed. AAA pubs realizing GOG has a very small market share / doesn't make much money comparatively? Something to do with Cyberpunk2077? Not wanting to bother with DRM-free? A combination?
Oh well, at least GOG will survive without AAA games. Or if they don't, we'll have our DRM-free installers backed up.
Cyberpunk probably plays a role. If it had been the bomb (instead of just bombing), it would have carried GOG. Some publishers were possibly anticipating that, well, not anymore. Microsoft bought ZeniMax, Bethesda's parent company, which means Skyrim and Fallout 4 went from being wishful thinking to a complete pipe dream.
The debacle with Devotion didn't help..
IO Interactive tried to release Hitman 2016 last year, but kinda forgot about the DRM-free part, didn't release Hitman 2018 instead (and there's no reason to bother with 2016 if you have 2018) and at a price that was kinda insulting. I had a faint hope they'd try again to get it right after the EGS exclusivity of Hitman 2021 expired. Release Hitman 2021 with all DLC, 2016/2018 content, really no DRM this time, and don't charge many times the sale price of other platforms. Well, maybe that'll still happen.
From Square Enix we got pretty much only titles from former Eidos and mostly titles that were relatively successful (or in case of Sleeping Dogs, expected to do OK today) and somewhat older. We actually got most of those now I guess. Perhaps in time we'll see more as titles get older.