Lebesgue: I still can't believe this crap that Beamdog pulled. I see people asking for the original versions both here and at the ID forum and some end up buying the crappy EE versions to play the originals at twice the price and supporting a company which should not be allowed to touch any more classics...
waltc: The BG and BGII EE versions are actually approaching excellent, imo. The bugs that plagued the initial EE versions have been 98% eliminated--or so I hear, because I didn't buy the EE versions until just recently, so I have no first-hand experience with the early versions. I was surprised by how nice the EE versions, are at present, tell the truth--quite a contrast, really, to the negative chatter that surrounds them. And they are still being developed and improved...! I'm completely happy with them.
I had owned the originals for years, of course, and had modded them to the hilt with TuTu, etc.--and it was great to discover I could also mod the EE versions, using the same mods! I don't see much of any reason to object to anything GOG has done so far--I mean, you have to be very new to computer gaming if you haven't already purchased the original BG/BGII--and years ago, too, imo.
Not everyone keeps every case of every game they have ever purchased in their entire lives forever. Some things, classics especially, need to be re-acquired later on down the line. Plenty of GOG's customers are picking up convenient, compatible versions of classic games they loved previously for just that reason. Requiring us to buy utterly unreliable remakes just to access said games is absurd.
And hell, plenty of others just never got around to playing these games in the first place. Doesn't mean they're "new" to PC gaming.