I've always wondered why Ubisoft and Square Enix ceased to put any of their games on GOG anymore? Hell even EA and Activision (as much shit people give them) have released their games here.

I don't know why.

But Square Enix pulled their own DRM Free version of games about 2 years ago.

They used to sell DRM free games direct from their own store.

We got last year the Anno series. And who knows, Ubisoft might surprise us yet.

Would love me some more skveeniks games.

Square Enix at least are *very* pro-DRM and have repeatedly stated as much. It's because of this and the poor state/lack of support for/abandonment of the DXHR Director's Cut that I don't buy their games any more (except those on GOG of course).

If you want to see more of their games here, there are two things you should do:

1. Stop buying their games on Steam/other DRM'ed services and only buy their games here or via other DRM-free services
2. Contact them and ask them about releasing more of their games here

Edit: Three things.

3. Dissuade others from buying their games and get them to ask about DRM-free releases as well.

Most big-name publishers only seem to think of GOG as a repository for their old games (mind you, whatever makes a game "old" is subjective); Square Enix basically sells their old Eidos catalogue in here, and Ubi only seems to send GOG their games that don't require uPlay, or some titles that they think might appeal more to the "GOG crowd". It's not only Squeenix and Ubi, though; pretty much every big studio on GOG only seems to sell their old-ish games here (see Bethesda, for instance: we just recently got Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas; I don't think we'll be getting Skyrim or Fallout 4 in here any time soon, as Bethesda probably thinks they're too "recent", and they're still making money off of them on Steam and other stores). If you're only going to release "classic" old games on GOG, there's only so much titles you can release, I guess.

Still, I'd really like to know why Bethesda-published Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth isn't on GOG, yet. I would think that one classifies as an old game? It kind of boggles the mind, since Bethesda themselves have newer games in this store. I mean, even EA brought Dead Space, Mirror's Edge and the first Dragon Age here, which are relatively new.

Mind you, this is all but speculation on my part, but it's the impression I've been under for a long time. Big publishers won't bring all their games to GOG, mostly because the games aren't "old enough" or because they're still making money on Steam or other stores.

Ubisoft wants to push their client base onto the Client software Uplay - as client based approach gives publisher a lot of control over the product, not to mention getting metrics and data for advertising and other such things.

Squeenix not a clue.

Ubisoft release stuff on and off still, not a lot but they did release most of the Anno games fairly recently and I'm sure there were others around the same time.

But as others have mentioned, I wouldn't hold out much hope for newer stuff, and Square are really pro DRM (as most Japanese companies seem to be) and the only stuff they've ever released here is stuff from other studios they bought if I remember rightly.

One thing is missed dearly here,and i am looking at Ubisoft: XIII.If they somehow relicence and bring it back to GOG,then my mission here is done ;).Cheers

We need this message passed around more.

Games from the biggest publishers seem to come in waves, perhaps because GOG wants or has to liscense a bunch of games all at once (maybe it's hard to get time with the pubs' legal department). Ubisoft was absent for almost exactly 2 years (July 2013 - July 2015) when they came back with Albion, Archimedean Dynasty, Anno 1602, etc. We just got off an Activision wave (I assume it's finished) with many Sierra classics.

And as others have said, Ubi games that force a Uplay account probably won't show up; same with post-Origin integration EA games. But you can keep up hope for older games.

Squeenix seems to be doubling down on DRM and other practices GOG might disagree with. However, now that Hitman is back in I/O's hands, I have hope we'll at least see Blood Money finally show up.