You can still get the classic versions if you buy the enhanced editions; they're apparently now included there as bonus content. But they're no longer sold as standalone items, and of course the enhanced editions are more expensive. Bad decision from gog in my opinion.

From now on, when you buy EE editions, you also get a key to redeem the classic versions.

Yeah, they were probably still outselling the Enhanced Edition and everyone could see them on top of bestselling games. So that's why Beamdog most likely decided to not allow people to purchase them instead of their version.

Quite. And now, new players coming to the franchise will never see or know that the classic versions exist: you cannot find them on GOG at all, except buried in the 'included with...' blurb. From top sellers to total obscurity. This is disgraceful.

too bad. never played BG, but im not willing to pay beamdog for their ee. i remember when they told that the game never will release for steam, and people bought it on their online shop, just so they can make more money.

It is disgraceful what Beamdog did. Classics kept outselling the EE editions so they decided to kill them.

I hope you will be able to purchase the classic editions somewhere else

Beamdog couldn't do this without the support of Wizards of the Coast. GOG also decided to go along with this. I'm sick and tired of everyone blaming everything on Beamdog and not acknowledging others are complicit in this too. I get a lot of people dislike all the new content, but they do not get to make these changes all on their own. You may want to boycott Beamdog, but then you should boycott D&D as well as they approved everything (including the new content), WotC, and Hasbro since they are all involved in this too. And nobody forced GOG to bundle them together either. GOG could have said "no."

Sorry to bring you the bad news, but no, you can't anymore. IF you want to buy the GOOD OLD Baldur's Gate Originals (1 and 2), you have to pay DOUBLE their former price and get together with them, the EGE (enhanced garbage edition), courtesy of Beamdog!

You can always open a thread though, to politely ask for someone having a spare, extra copy of 1 or 2, to gift it to you (most people who bought the enhanced editions lately, had the originals from before already, so now they get an extra copy)...

I still have all the cds and cases from BG I & II + IWD, maybe I have a collectors item on my hands :)

Agree, and agree. A revolting development all around. The Originals have every right to be viewed on their own (very strong) merits, completely apart from the Enhanced versions.

You know what's funny? A friend of mine got BG1 EE on his tablet a while ago; I remembered trying it then, and *not* being thoroughly disgusted with it. Then, more recently, I tried the PC port of BG1 EE, and just... yuck!

Then, not long ago, said friend came over for a visit, and I got to side-by-side compare the two versions; the *tablet* version is FAR superior! Practically every complaint I had about the PC version (and I had a lot) was gone from the tablet version. It even LOOKS better graphically, AND it retails for HALF the price ($10!!), AND the new NPCs are completely optional (they're paid DLC, but I don't care for them anyway, so heck with 'em).

I'm curious: which BG1 EE came first, tablet or PC? And the PC version really does feel like a sloppy, lazy port, in comparison; why such a disparity in quality? Doesn't speak well for Beamdog.

To anyone reading this: if you're at all curious/interested specifically in the Enhanced Edition of Baldur's Gate 1 or 2 or Icewind Dale, and you have a tablet of some kind, GET THE TABLET VERSION! Better for cheaper? Yes, please!

Yes, GOG could have said no, and then beamdog et al could have said "ok, then you Only sell EE without originals at all, or you possilbly sell nothing of ours and we move over to steam."

You make it sound like GOG can just up and say, "we're selling this, whatever you say," when its the game's owners that say "we want you to sell this, are you in or out?"

Granted there's more negotiation than yes or no, but if the owners only want them to sell the EE with original bundled, and not the original alone, GOG's hands are tied.

So which would you rather have, it still available as part of a bundle, where new people can still get it, even if its hidden and non obvious, or not available at all?

Awww, that's kind of sad to me.

This is a shit move my Beamdog. Plain and simple. It is the kind of low I expect to see from a company like EA. Pure slime.

Well, even lower than EA, actually, really. I myself never remember EA *begging* for positive reviews, using influence to have negative reviews on other distributors' platform deleted, making forum posts listing game feedback containing problems, bugs and opinions on bad game design and performance disappear, or trash-talk their paying customers with an attitude instead of promising to fix a malfunctioning piece of sh*t and most importantly, a word completely unknown to them, *apologize*... EA, when their games were problematic, at least they released a damn fix to address issues (i myself still remember the first lord of the rings strategy, it had a serious issue and they released a fix in zero time, even for the retail version).

Beamdog, on the other hand...