Ooooooooooeeeeeeeeeeee,that colourful avatar spun me out and now I'm seeing spots and stars.

And Beamdog strikes again... They know that they EE games would be outsold be the original versions so they withdraw them from gog...

Is it just me or is this discussion just like the discussion over in the "Full Throttle" Remaster discussion?

Looks like beamdog is setting up to erase the legacy of one of the golden pillars of role playing games.

Again, what you need to do is vote for your wallets to preserve the legacy of the original game.

Let's ee what Beamdog has done before we condemn it.
I know that over the top hyperbole is part and partial of gaming forums,but it does get tiresome

Erase the legacy? They aren't burning down libraries, Archive.org, etc..

Hasbro's going to meld together the original and the Enhanced again in the name of money, and yeah that's monumentally dumb, but erasing PST's legacy is something far out of their league.

ANd the original is included with the EE version, so those new to the game can still, when they have played the EE version, install the original and have fun with the mods.
If Beamdog has gotten the rights to the game..which they have...it is not GOG's decision to make. Beamdog can dictate how the game will be sold, and for what price.
And as for "As Far As I Am Concerned, It is in The PUblic Domain" you don't seem to understand how copyright works......

It will be bundled with the remaster.

I am sure it is on Beamdog's to do list,now that the problems of adapting a new set of D and D rules has been solved. The differences between the rules for the Baldurs Gate/First Icewind Dale games and the rules for Plancescape Torment /IWD2 was , according to Beamdog, the main difficult in making EEs for the latter two games. So, I would bet that IWD2 EE is on it's way.

The original game is being bundled with the new version, so there's no loss here.

So, anyone else thinking PSTEE is going to be highly buggy on release and will remain buggy for another 5-10 years?

Why think it? It's guaranteed.

I'm pretty sure how it works with the other EEs is that the old version bundled with the EE is just a redemption code in your library, and you can give it away to anyone you wish. I assume this will work the same.

The remaster seems to be pretty respectful and not add anything substantially new (and they've apparently gone to great lengths to emphasize that any of the new stuff was put there by Avellone himself). I still worry about little things like whether Fall-From-Grace's diary has been made openable, but overall I can't help but appreciate the restraint.

I'll very much miss hitting the "games" tab here and having PS:T be the number 1 result on the bestselling list, though. Bundling the games together will never cease to be grating in general, because it's basically giving us fewer options to buy the game while also jacking up the price for anyone who only wants the original. Because of that and Beamdog's reputation—deserved or not, the added companions and Dragonspear drama colored many people's perceptions of the company, as the Youtube comments on the trailer can attest—it's unlikely that the EE will ever climb its way back up to be the bestselling game on here. The original's 5-star rating also seems out of reach for the same reasons.

Maybe someday I'll pick up the Android version of this just to have a portable Torment, but only when I'm 100% positive that doing so wouldn't inadvertently help fund a Planescape 1.5 original Beamdog side story down the line. I'm also curious about what the "remastered soundtrack" actually means. While I'd hate for anything new to be added, remastered by way of feeding the original tracks into a brickwall limiter wouldn't be much better.

It is highly advisable that you wait at least three months for any patches to be released. If the past "Enhanced Editions" are any indication, this game will be in an unreliable state on release.