Short explanation from our side.
First of All The Republic was pretty well known at the time of its release (I'm surprised that so many of you didn't hear about it, maybe it was more exposed in Europe, as Eidos wasn't that strong in US). Game was supposed to be revolutionary, had lots of previews and was for a long time in the production, everyone was curious if political game can be interesting, an if developers can deliver such a huge and complex game they promised. At the release reviews were mixed (interface, learning curve, basicly not enough time on polishing – so often in gamesbiz) but still game is massive and very unique. For sure worth checking out.
Second thing is, that reality with properties is not so simple. Top properties are not lie on the floor waiting for us just to pick up (unfortunately) Getting games on GOG.com is extremely difficult and time consuming process. We are in touch (or try to be) with dozens of companies – with practically ALL publishers (from big ones to tiny local ones) but getting games is not easy.
So our weekly dozes are not artificially limited. It goes naturally as we getting new games and prepare them for the release. That is why sometimes there is one game weekly, sometimes three games. Of course we have to make good plan of releases. We cannot release all we have in one week and then have three weeks without any title - it wouldn't be so smart.
Hope, I explained our position:) And besides that is as Lukasz wrote, there are different tastes, and GOG is not only about top mainstream games, sometimes is about undiscovered cool games worth having their second chance (which does not mean that we are not doing everything we can to get games from the top of our wishlist, and I believe that there will be some cool announcements in the second half of the year in this respect, too:)
And of course we are open for critics, cause it is as you wrote it can help us to make GOG better:)

The game certainly had a few issues, but I still really enjoyed it, if only for the subject matter. I liked holding demonstrations, following potential enemies, etc. Just not much else out there like it.

Thank you all for the critic and also for the kind words - we really appreciate it. It does give us additional motivation to deliver the games everybody is waiting for (including us :)
When I was reading this thread I thought, that it was worth to release Republic the Revolution just to see the comments and what controversy it has created, but kidding aside ... Republic the Revolution is a good game - yes, there is a lot of people who will not play it (including me here), but it was big at the release and definitely innovative with a lot of hype around. That's why we have decided to put it up on GOG.com and as per the posts we have made at least some of you happy.
Yes, we would love to have major releases each week - by major I mean stuff that caters to 90% of gamers, but it does take time to put such deals together. We are continuously working on it and you will see the really big things coming shortly ☺
Important thing however is to ask the questions – how many really big titles there is? I mean games, which will be like by vast majority of gamers – 20-30-40, maybe less. I think the beauty of gaming is the diversity of taste and thus games catering to those tastes. We see our role here, as the selector of quality and caterer for all tastes.
There of course is hell lot of crappy games, which you can spot from a distance. That’s what you will not see on GOG.com (or at least you will see it very very rarely, as we can go wrong from time to time, can’t we?). Still, I am sure that once we will put a real crap out most of you will let us know about it in a very direct way and we will be able to correct our wrongdoing ;)
Once again – we really appreciate both the critic and the kind words. Keep on ☺

Indeed there are some surprises and new announcements coming and we do not want to spoil them :)