It'sjust an expression. And by the way, I don't believe in God. Not too mention the fact that "God" is only an implied entity in your reasoning as it was not originally mentioned. You assumed I meant "pray to God" (if this expression is taken literally), whereas I could pray to the Invisible Pink Unicorn or whatever you like.
UPDATE: I've just noticed you wrote "god" so that would include the Invisible Pink Unicorn from the perspective of English grammar. Oh, well... ;-)

Gmail was notorious for being in beta for so long. I don't think that's the kind of example GOG wants to follow. Ideally they should have all the basics wrapped up within 2 years. Especially given that all but the downloader work perfectly.

I think they want to get out of beta after they have a ton of games. Right now... not too many. 100+ isn't a lot in the grand scheme of things.

Snagging another major name would certainly sweeten the pot. But they also have a great many other possible titles from the publishers they have already signed.

Notorious? Never heard that, the service has been working well for a long time, and that really all that matters, wether the logo has the word "beta" stamped on it is of little importance.

Yeah, I've been wondering about that. It seems that new publishers come with a fixed amount of games from their back catalog. Some with just a few, some with quite a lot, but when those games have been released, that's it, even though many of them have much larger back catalogs. There are still quite a few games from some of the publishers GOG already has that I'd love to get my hands on. I hope some of them will consider putting more games on GOG.

Not in terms of quality. Not at all. Just the fact that it was in beta for far, far, far longer than was strictly necessary.

It might just be that GOG are the ones holding up the works on that count. They may be limiting the number of games they take from each publisher at this time so that they have the time they need to increase the number of publishers that come on board and subsequently boost the number of potential titles they can tap into in future. After all, there are only so many titles they can put out a week.

True, that would make sound business sense. And I really can't complain about a business plan ensuring that GOG has enough material for new releases far into the future ;-)

Partnering with other retailers might be foolish. Big retailers like Steam and D2D have little reason to send traffic to GOG without compensation that GOG probably can't provide.
Word of mouth seems to be doing well for them, but perhaps some paid advertising on gaming sites and magazines would help a bit.
The best way to grow publisher support is to increase the users. More buyers means more games.

I believe it would be, in Soviet Russia, GOG buys you.
And then, In Soviet Russia, DRM is free of GOG.

Of course, that is the one I was really talking about. Invisible and pink: how could anyone doubt her power? ;)

Not as powerful as the flying spaghetti monster