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Originally Posted by JuliusBorisov
This was the decision made by the rightholder, Wizards of the Coast.
Greg Tito, Communications Director for Dungeons & Dragons, said at that time: "We're proud to recognize their (Beamdog's) excellent work in offering the best possible experience and support for these legendary titles. We want these to become the definitive editions – featuring both the enhanced and classic versions of the games."
https://www.gog.com/news/definitive_...164c1295401b71 |
Wizards of the Coast hold the rights to the D&D license, not to Baldur's Gate and others. Assuming Beamdog is the owner of the BG/IWD titles, the only thing WotC could have done is to require Beamdog to NOT sell the old games separately when granting the use of the D&D license for the remakes.
Personally, I dislike the new versions. In BG's case, they destroy the experience of being a level 1 character. You get overpowered very quickly. They also destroyed the ingame animations and opening video, introduced tons of bugs (of which I don't know how many are fixed), and they added sub-par, unneeded content.
If you have the old versions, it'll take you about an hour to mod BG1 + BG2 into a single game (BG Trilogy) with all the mods and extra characters and quests you desire. You'll get really close to, and maybe even surpass what the Enhanced editions offer.