It's patently ridiculous that large publishers still will not release new games on GOG, despite the success of The Witcher 3 here, among other larger-sized games. GOG has a fervent customer base, great customer support, and now even has an executable client for the lazy gamers who don't want to manually update their games - are large publishers still holding out due to lack of DRM? What would it take these publishers to convince their brain-dead investors that DRM doesn't hurt sales?

Even today, Kotaku just wrote about how Steam's customer service still essentially sucks major donkey balls (can't post links for some reason).

Ever since GOG released, I vowed I'd never buy any game with DRM, no matter how much I wanted to play it (Tomb Raider 2013, Rayman Legends, Dragon Age Inquisition, etc), and I'm guessing I can't be the only one.

When will big publishers start putting new releases here?

EA will probably not since they have even stopped releasing their latest games on Steam in favor of their own client, Origin. I would say it is a matter of time before Ubisoft will do the same thing in favor of UPlay.

Unless they are both making plenty of money via the console market, then they will probably revert back to putting stuff on steam. But we know the largest reason to put the games on their own platform and not steam, is to keep the 30% cut.

And another reason is too many refunds. People get very very very upset when they buy game with Steam DRM and get additional DRM as bonus (uplay is a must even if game was bought on steam).

Not only that; if a customer is required to use Origin (for example), chances are that he'll be interested to buy something else in their frontpage too and that's a free sale for EA (for example)!

If Origin or uPlay had DRM-free games, I would actually purchase from them too. I guess the question should have been rephrased to "when will AAA publishers finally be able to convince brain-dead investors that DRM doesn't work, and start releasing games DRM-free, whether on their own platform or on GOG?"

I am really, really waiting for that day. As of now, I have quite literally hundreds of dollars that COULD have been theirs because there are a whole bunch of AAA titles I want to purchase, but refuse to due to DRM.

Most of those publishers may feel that is a threat to put out their recent games on DRM, since they could be eaily pirated from just one purchaser, I don't the audience has GROWN in that repect or at least enough to not do that, is like someone knowing who actually does purchase albums on phisical copies and they ask you ¿why? cuz I am a sensible human being.

And this is why I refuse to purchase those games. Each company wants to have their own client. It gets to be to much. GOG is easy. I can purchase a game, download it, and play it. Simple. The way it should be.

EA didn't refuse to sell their games on Steam, Steam changed their TOS to something EA found unacceptable- the specific issue was with regards to DLC and Steam insisting dlc be available there as well as on Origin. But make no mistake, it was Steam who changed their terms which caused no further EA games to be released, not any change from EA. After all, you can still buy EA games on Steam that were added under the old TOS, they haven't been pulled.

Though that's pretty irrelevant for this thread anyway, anything tied to steam/ uplay/ origin won't make it here under the current policies unless the client stuff is stripped out. That's unlikely to happen for Ubi/ EA/ Valve games or anything that relies heavily on steam integration. Delayed releases, especially for SP games might be a possibility for some publishers that use steam though.

The only thing that would get minds changed would be a financial one, with enough sales on GOG to justify a policy change. There probably is enough of that on certain types of game on the classic game to smaller project/ indie side of things but they're typically the sort of game that is no longer made as AAA anyway- things like Pillars of Eternity or Primordia. From major publishers something non AAA like Might and Magic X or the later H(o)MMs would probably do well here, problem really is convincing Ubisoft that that would be a significant sales plus and out balance having their own client- if they release a uPlay less version here how many people on Steam would complain if their's still has Uplay integrated, and would Valve insist uPlay was removed there as well?

Wouldn't it be something if GOG's partnership with Bethesda included the day one release of Fallout 4?

We have hope and that's what matters most. :)

For those AAA publishers that could make it past the no DRM hurdle to entertain the idea, would it be worthwhile for GOG to offer financial incentives to guarantee the release of games on day one? Maybe GOG could offer them a bigger cut of the initial profits to cover the cost of maintaining separate DRM-free builds with optional Galaxy integration.

Bricks would be shat.

When GOG will grow to certain critical size.

And they just happened to have Origin sitting ready to go live at pretty much the exact same time.

I have no doubt that change was part of the reasons they're not on Steam anymore but I highly doubt they weren't preparing to do what they did long before it happened. You don't whip up a new client overnight, especially considering the glacial pace the EA downloader changed before then.