Please, spare me that bullshit. They took the originals down, so people who have not played their games, could not compare the enhanced with the originals. Take what 2K did with Bioshock for example. They added the original with the new one as well, so instead of getting one game, you get two. There are a lot more examples but I will stop here.

Also, do you think that I care that Oster was the co-founder of Bioware? I would have if he stayed the same, but he is not the same person he was back then, so no, I do not care one bit about him or his shady company.

Transparent and honest? Huh, thanks for the chuckle.
No, they do not deserve the benefit of the doubt, not from me, anyway. I do not care what other people think about.

I disagree with almost everything you said here. As I pointed out earlier, I dispute your first claim. While they do have the legal right, moral rights are a matter of opinion, and I don't believe they did anything to earn that right. It is impossible for them to make substantial changes without introducing incompatibility, and, in fact, they have already done so with what few changes they have made.

This entire remake is pointless. If Beamdog had the skills you claim, and the desire to actually serve the players, rather than their own wallets, they would make a new game. Even this travesty of an update would be more acceptable if they included an actual content expansion of the scale of SoU or HotU (but, given SoD was a "new game", I'm not sure they're capable, and I'm sure they would sell it as a separate product). Obsidian made PIllars of Eternity as an homage to the IE games, rather than trying to claim ownership of BG and make unnecessary lore and engine changes. inXile made TIdes of Numenera rather than trying to claim ownership of Planescape: Torment and making unnecessary lore and engine changes. Both of those companies had more people involved with the original products than Beamdog appears to, and they did the right thing. Were their new games good? Who cares? More games is better than hanging on to the old stuff forever, especially if hanging on means making gratuitous incompatible changes.

To be fair, from the credits and intro of NWN's manual:

Trent T. Oster
Producer—Neverwinter Nights
BioWare Corp.

It's always hard to tell how much executives actually contributed to the product, though, and they're always listed in the credits. Note that Cameron Tofer is nowhere in the credits.

Ah, another "they've learned their lessons" believer. They have learned how not to anger some of the people over their decisions. No more SJW writing? Better QA? Neither of these affects me in the least. No, they do not deserve the benefit of the doubt. When Stig79 called them for what they were going to do, people like you jumped in and said "give them a chance!" Then they made their announcements and FAQs, and showed that they were still pulling the same old crap. Apparently that still isn't enough to convince you that they don't deserve a chance.

They don't actually have the rights to anything, you know. Wizards of the Coast has rights to the D&D setting and IP, and also every single D&D-based game. Even if that weren't true, it would still be the publisher, and not some members of the original developers, who owned the rights to the games.

Also, after watching the NWN credits, I'll give you Trent Oster, but Cameron Tofer isn't listed anywhere in those, so either he joined afterwards or he left beforehand. Having 1 guy on your team who was important in a game's development doesn't give you any rights to said game imo, otherwise everyone could make remakes of anything.

Uhm, I might be mistaken here, but I believe that the original games are in fact included with Beamdog's Enhanced Editions.

I dunno, NVN runs like absolute shit on my computer despite me having decent specs, also crashes and needs to be run in compatibility mode for XP just to launch. In addition, the NWN Diamond Edition doesn't include some of the official modules like Wyvern Crown of Cormyr.

Just checked on GOG, and yes, apparently they are, but only here. I wonder why they did not do the same thing on Steam as well. That still means that they are going to ignore platinum and diamond edition...like I said, Beamdog is and always will be to me, a company that I will never buy games from it. They can change that by making new games, and not enhanced versions.

Cameron Tofer was hired by Bioware as a 19 year old and on Baldur's Gate he did some 'additional programming', whatever that means.

Trivia: Marcia Tofer was the artist's model for Skie, Shar-Teel and Viconia (BG1) apparently.

Er, sorry, I now realize the text I quoted said IE games or NWN, and I only meant NWN. I'd prefer not to discuss the BG takeover further (at least not in detail); it's already been talked to death. I'm sure if/when Beamdog makes IWD2EE the whole wound will flare up again.

Given how similar all the BG females look to me, I'm surprised you didn't say "all the BG1 females".

Okay, fair enough... Then Wizards of the Coast has entrusted them with the remastering of the games. Seems like anyone who takes issue with the fact that the originals are being remastered, or with the quality of the remasters, should perhaps escalate their complaints to them if Beamdog's words aren't good enough?

So you're using your right to freedom of choice as the justification to take away that of those who'd make a different choice?

I am NOT trying to take it away. I want Beamdog to keep the original digital versions on the store just as much as anyone else. I have said so on the Beamdog forums and here.

Will it include the enhancement of all the Expansion packs? Because if it doesn't, then boooo, you can keep it!

Every time Beamdog announces one of their Enhanced Edition games, I just reinstall the original.

I wouldn't be suprised if they "enhanced" them all separately for the numnuts who not only hand over wedges of cash, but also pop onto forums to defend them.