Why didn't they at least transfer the upvotes for each game into the new list?

1. Too
2. Much
3. Work
4. For
5. A
6. Glorified
7. PR
8. Stunt

There's a numbersome of games, and many of those weren't even games in the first place. A lot of people were making requests for worthless things, like DLC packs for games that hadn't even released here. Or there's the Wizardry 1-8 wish. How do you even account for that, given that 6-8 are already on GOG? How do you even count that?

But yes, the uncanny hand of automation has wrongly touched the Dreamlist; many votes were transferred. To the entirely wrong game; such as (2009)'s Wolfenstein's votes being transferred over to the obscure Wolfenstein RPG, among numerous other examples. UFO 50 had some 700 odd votes, and GOG said, "RESET THE CLOCK." (I bet they went to the obscure UFO flight sim.)

Yeah, I was wondering why they made a big deal of the dreamlist when it’s literally a prettier version of the community wishlist they’ve had for years.

Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that the old list had so many duplicate entries, that it made it impossible to tell how much of those are real votes and how much is the same person voting over and over again? Because that's how it was with the popular games.

There's the official response: "Due to structural changes, we couldn’t transfer old entries from the Community Wishlist directly. However, migrated the most popular titles with the highest vote counts. [...] During the migration, we consolidated votes from single threads referencing multiple games and distributed them evenly among the relevant titles. As a result, in some cases, you may notice differences in vote counts and authors of the titles."
And it seems like by "most popular titles" they mean entries with at least 1000 votes. Everything else is left to users to re-add, starting from scratch :/