Yes it's not cheap and it is a large download and you do seem to have to set up a Larian account but you get game play which is, to me, a hybrid of BG and POE (pillars of eternity) plus environments that you can interact with. This is the first time I have done something the same way as I would have in a pen and paper D&D game: sneak up on a guard, push him over the ledge, then shoot the rope holding something heavy hanging above the other targets, taking them out. Yes it seems like a set piece has been set up, like an old school dungeon but it was great! One crash so far, the cinematics are interesting, some polishing is needed, but this does not break the game, I have seen worst things in finished games and it may even get fixed in time. Yes, it is not another game in the style of BG 1&2, which some people do seem to want (Beamdog's Siege of Dragonspear was the last thing I saw like that) but after a little time I am getting used to the controls. You have a choice, wait for the finished game and spend your money or wait and don't! You can shoot the rope or don't! Just shoot the rope!
I have it on CD which shows it's age. It was very exciting when released. A no DRM version is great to have. Good story and graphics (for the time).
Fantasy Viking style , kept at it until I succeeded. occasional crashes, but nicely written, a mix of strategy , management and cows, also Ducks!
I thought great, free dlc , can't wait, however due to gog galaxy which i tried to install it with, the three hours i had to play POE with the new update have gone along with around $10 of metered internet (no alternative, no choice when you are rural) . Yes i know a lot of you have unlimited downloads at 10 gazillion mps, but I have to pay per gb and go through the slow process of updates, interrupting them after realizing what it was doing left me with no way to play my latest save, so on i go with a slow and costly update. The dlc was shown as 5 mb, not 5 gb. So if you have unlimited high speed internet you will probably have no worries, me i'm not going to trust galaxy. I certainly enjoyed the original game, but not the three wasted hours of my life getting my game to work again.
