That's the problem. People like the game, just not this version of it. And when this version is released the old version is removed from sale. They are artificially increasing the price of a very popular old game to the detriment of fans of the game.

If the old version was still available as it was yesterday, no one would care.

And how many times do people have to tell you that this is the stupidest argument you could possibly make? I guess it's ok to rip off the younger generation who wants to get to know the classics. You're shit outta luck, little Jimmy! No more 15 year old game for the fairly reasonable price of $10 for you, little man! Here, have this shiny new Deluxe "Enhanced" Edition for fiddy dollars instead! I hope that doesn't eat into your allowance too badly!

Unfortunately I believe you're right. But it's still a selling point for some (admittedly not for me, I just occasionally become nervous when I see how fast Internet deterioration continues)...

This is witchcraft! I couldn't get Baldur's Gate EE running when I tried a good while ago, but now it plays perfectly! It must be because I installed steam-runtime since then. I guess it's safe to buy NWN then :)

I agree with you. I find the bashing completely unnecessary, they didn't just slap the Beamdog logo and resold the game at a higher price, instead they spent man hours making the game more compatible with modern computers and they even brought forward some content which wasn't available in the original GOG release. I think they deserve some money for that

To top it all they're not asking a flat rate for all DLC's which will break your bank, instead they can even be bought individually in small dozes.

I hope Beamdog ignores all the senseless negativity and brings us more games to GOG. My only critique for this game is that I wish the Linux version was 64bit :-)

Nope, not fiddy dollars. Even the 20 dollars version includes the "old" version.

So yeah, they doubled the price for the "bonus version", but it CAN be bought cheaper than 50 or 30 dollars...

The 60% discount for owners comes quite unexpected, respect here to be honest.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KpGO2VTksIw

You and me both. There's very little reason for a 32-bit Linux version, and there's nothing stopping them from having both.

Maybe the code does not compile correctly on 64-bits. Converting old code to be 64-bits safe can be a lot of work. E.g. System Shock 1: https://github.com/Interrupt/systemshock/issues/25

Let's see...

improvements:
- UI scales up for higher resolutions
- a few graphical bells and whistles
- native linux version

All other 'improvements' actually don't add anything.
- "Community Endorsed" ... as if the old one wasn't.
- "Backwards Compatibility" ... correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the old one compatible with itself?
- "Restored Multiplayer" ... was there a problem with old multiplayer? Also will the new multiplayer be backwards compatible with the old one? If people playing EE can't join multiplayer with Diamond, then this sounds like a change for worse, and would mean the 'backwards compatibility' is a lie. But that's an if. I don't know if it actually works or not.
- "More Modder Opportunities" ... the description suggests it's mostly graphical bells and whistles. If however this means owners of EE can more easily make better mods that work for Diamond edition... than that would be another actual improvement of sorts.

Considering I can still play Diamond edition just fine, just in lower resolutions and through wine, the only actual improvement left is the graphical bells and whistles...
Hmm... how much would I be willing to pay for that... hmm... maybe 10% of the original game's price?

Remind me when EE gets a 65% discount. That combined with the 25% Diamond Edition owner discount should do the trick.

Does anyone know what is enhanced as far as scripting or server side efficiency (i.e. support lots of players?)

But isn't that what an enanched edition of a 20 years old game should try to achieve? I mean putting some effort to make the game more available for everyone? Is not like they have to develop it from scratch.

Not trying to bash on Beamdog, I'm not buying any of their EE, but can see some positive arguments about them (even if they should allow people to still buy the originals).

But what are they actually adding to NWN? Except some minor (called subtle) graphical effects and backwards compatibility (which eh if you have the orginal you already have per se)?

Also, and this is what puzzles me, why aren't they trying to make a new game of their own? Instead of moving away from the infinity engine, with which the practiced a lot for the previous EE games to move to a new one?

Beamdog certainly does a lot of things that deserve criticism, but no more then many other companies do.
I don't quite get the over the top hate they get here. Cirticism is fine (and on somethings I would join you) but the kind of blidn over the top hatred is something else. And a couple of the more militants ones really need some professional help, they seem that obsessive about it.

By the way, now that I think about it...

The fact that EE is supposed to be updated for modern operating systems so that it works and is supported on computers where the old Diamond Edition might not work...

suggests that the primary people to consider buying EE should be people who tried DE and it didn't work on their computer.

Now I suppose there could be some people who bought DE before, it didn't work so they asked for a refund or something... and now they may consider buying EE.
... but now that DE is gone from the store (at least as a separate purchase)... it seems like someone just eliminated their own target market, since how are people supposed to try if DE works on their machine, so that they know if they need to buy EE? Now people will not know if they need to buy EE before they buy it!

... oh right, they can probably also look up hardware/OS requirements and go by that...

Dayum, and here I thought I had another silly argument for the discussion!