Dark_art_: Just to clear things up as it seems there some misunderstanding, the original Dwarf Fortress is indeed free while the new version available on Steam with non-ASCII graphics is paid.
I do agree with you that there are plenty of reasons to DF not being on GOG but I also agree with the tilte that is a massive fail not being available on GOG. It's probably the most complex game ever designed and a landmark anything videogames related.
My reply was both specific and generic, so no misunderstanding on my part. I was just addressing the flawed notion that exists with some, that GOG are at fault when it come to games failing to appear here. They can maybe be blamed in some instances for games not appearing here in a timely fashion, but then backlog is backlog and who decides when or if something should jump the queue, and how GOG do their curating, and what issues come up when trying to negotiate a deal with the provider. It seems that some find it all too easy to just blame GOG.
Clearly the game means a lot more to you and the OP etc, than to me and no doubt many others, as there are plenty of games that have failed to turn up at GOG, that certainly mean more to us, so DF is just a par for the course failure to us, and certainly not massive. I am also stating that from the perspective of the types of games that do turn up at GOG, which is far from the AAA games etc one gets at Steam. So I cannot factor 'massive' into the usual expectation.
I could say that it is a massive fail that Doom Eternal for instance hasn't turned up here, but I wouldn't, as it is not really an expectation it will any time soon. And there are oodles of others like that.
amok: just because you have not heard about it, does not mean it is not a very well known game.
I never said it wasn't a very well known game, just that it wasn't well known enough to deserve the notion of 'massive fail'.
A 'massive fail' for me, so far, is Quake Enhanced not being here, when we have the standard version and expansions, and both Steam and Epic have had QE on sale many times, and Amazon Prime currently has the Epic version for free.
I don't automatically blame GOG though, as there is clearly other factors at play.