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magisterpecoris: Finally just buy their game for classic edition ... with solds, BG, BG2 and Icewindale for only 15€ .. it's a good deal i think, but also think it's not good for the future of gog if this thing can arrive more time with others games (like planetscape torment, neverwinter nights, etc) .
Many remastered game are excellent (like homeworld), but client's gog must have the choice between remastered and the original cause it's the real force of gog.
Very good point.
I apologize if this is a dumb question. How can I play the original versions of BG1 and BG2, included within the Enhanced Editions? I don't seem to find the way to do so. In the game directories there is only one executable each, which run the enhanced editions only. Do I need to download something else? What am I missing here?

Thanks in advance.
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Shakensak: I apologize if this is a dumb question. How can I play the original versions of BG1 and BG2, included within the Enhanced Editions? I don't seem to find the way to do so. In the game directories there is only one executable each, which run the enhanced editions only. Do I need to download something else? What am I missing here?

Thanks in advance.
You will find a redeem code in your enhanced edition account (More >> Serial Keys). Download and install separately.
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Shakensak: I apologize if this is a dumb question. How can I play the original versions of BG1 and BG2, included within the Enhanced Editions? I don't seem to find the way to do so. In the game directories there is only one executable each, which run the enhanced editions only. Do I need to download something else? What am I missing here?

Thanks in advance.
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Hickory: You will find a redeem code in your enhanced edition account (More >> Serial Keys). Download and install separately.
I had already checked the "More" options in my account prior to posting in the forum. Nevertheless I doubled checked them again based on your response and I do not have the serial keys for the original games.

At least I now know that I should have redeem codes in order to download the original games, which is useful information. I think I am going to contact GOG support now.
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Hickory: You will find a redeem code in your enhanced edition account (More >> Serial Keys). Download and install separately.
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Shakensak: I had already checked the "More" options in my account prior to posting in the forum. Nevertheless I doubled checked them again based on your response and I do not have the serial keys for the original games.

At least I now know that I should have redeem codes in order to download the original games, which is useful information. I think I am going to contact GOG support now.
If you were expecting a clickable link, there isn't one -- just a url that you can highlight and open in your browser. That's what I got with ID EE, anyway. Hope that helps.
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Shakensak: I had already checked the "More" options in my account prior to posting in the forum. Nevertheless I doubled checked them again based on your response and I do not have the serial keys for the original games.

At least I now know that I should have redeem codes in order to download the original games, which is useful information. I think I am going to contact GOG support now.
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richlind33: If you were expecting a clickable link, there isn't one -- just a url that you can highlight and open in your browser. That's what I got with ID EE, anyway. Hope that helps.
Well, I finally found the keys. Almost accidentally, but I found them.

What's odd is that the keys were not visible from the GOG Galaxy Client. I had to log in to my account in a web browser (Firefox) in order to be able to view the serial keys.

Anyway, many thanks to Hickory and richlind33 for your help.
Post edited June 21, 2016 by Shakensak
You were using GOG Galaxy. That explains it. ;p
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Shakensak: Well, I finally found the keys. Almost accidentally, but I found them.

What's odd is that the keys were not visible from the GOG Galaxy Client. I had to log in to my account in a web browser (Firefox) in order to be able to view the serial keys.
Your account is at and with gog.com, not your Galaxy client. When anybody advises you to check your account, as I did, they mean at gog.com.
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richlind33: That's sure to improve their public image -- NOT!

Are these clowns children???
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KiNgBrAdLeY7: Worse than that. They are LGBT members AND social justice warriors... They purchased the rights to Baldur's Gate with their gaydollars and then started producing those enhanced editions. As if one of the two wasn't enough already and a handful on its own accord. Just check about the entire "Siege of Dragonspear" huge discussion, from the Mizhena and Gamersgate/Minsc meme (Minsc was reduced to a walking meme spouting idiotic and completely IRRELEVANT to the Forgotten Realms things), to the sorry state game is with its endless bugs, issues and gamebreaking problems. Then check the profile of Amber Scott, the failed D&D campaign writer that got nasty rep years ago, she is the person Beamdog hired to RUIN baldur's gate for us, while audaciously claiming "she fixed it", "BG original suffered from MISOGYNY" and "people are idiots for not appreciating hard work". Heck, just seeing her twitter picture only, you will understand.

"ALIENS" happened to our beloved, Baldur's Gate series, not children or clowns, alas! May it rest in peace...

https://itwasaliens.spreadshirt.com/

https://twitter.com/thebeambard

https://twitter.com/bigmommascott

P.S. They even censored negative reviews in Steam and citing of criticism, which isn't their own property, as well in their own forums. They even had steam to recently change their reviewing system's policies/features/details, days after their sh*tty new DLC was panned (Beamdog's) and entire threads discussing their "marvels", were moved in other forum places, so as to hide from plain view. Their most epic moment, however, was PUBLICLY BEGGING for positive reviews and trying to appeal to fellow LGBT and SJWs, in order for the latter to give them some positive feedback, out of the blue. After all this commotion, they came up with this d*ckmove. They are going to earn a pretty penny, as i gather, many people want the originals, even to this day... Even though i found a legal way to "cheat" them and get the originals for free, people here attacked me, though. If you want a PM on how to do that, let me know. Cheers.
I don't care about their politics, sexuality or what they do to their own bodies, but the way they bastardized these beloved classics will keep me from buying any of their "enhanced editions", even on sale.
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king_mosiah: I don't care about their politics, sexuality or what they do to their own bodies, but the way they bastardized these beloved classics will keep me from buying any of their "enhanced editions", even on sale.
I have to wonder if they decided to make these "enhanced" editions solely or primarily for the purpose of making them SJW friendly. If they knew the original assets were destroyed, how could they possibly think that they were going to make legitimate improvements while preserving what BG fundamentally was?

It's sad that WOTC gave these assholes the green light. BG deserved a lot better than this.
The SJW stuff was only in the new expansion. They didn't add stuff to the games themselves. The lead writer wanted to write a "game" filled with political messages. Keeping in tone with the beloved BG series was secondary, if even that.

Hence the ton of plot-holes in it. It pretty much contradicts BG2 over and over again.
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Stig79: They didn't add stuff to the games themselves.
Only because the contract had them under strict control. They would have loved to, no doubt.
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Stig79: The SJW stuff was only in the new expansion. They didn't add stuff to the games themselves. The lead writer wanted to write a "game" filled with political messages. Keeping in tone with the beloved BG series was secondary, if even that.

Hence the ton of plot-holes in it. It pretty much contradicts BG2 over and over again.
Oh, so the SJW stuff wasn't added/inserted into the original two games (and their expansions), only into their own new expansion?

Well, that might (might) make the new expansion a shitty game, but I would hardly call ""ALIENS" happened to our beloved, Baldur's Gate series, not children or clowns, alas! May it rest in peace... " a fitting response.
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Stig79: The SJW stuff was only in the new expansion. They didn't add stuff to the games themselves. The lead writer wanted to write a "game" filled with political messages. Keeping in tone with the beloved BG series was secondary, if even that.

Hence the ton of plot-holes in it. It pretty much contradicts BG2 over and over again.
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Elrood: Oh, so the SJW stuff wasn't added/inserted into the original two games (and their expansions), only into their own new expansion?

Well, that might (might) make the new expansion a shitty game, but I would hardly call ""ALIENS" happened to our beloved, Baldur's Gate series, not children or clowns, alas! May it rest in peace... " a fitting response.
The expansion is part of the canon story now, so it affects the whole thing, really. It is a gigantic plot-hole stuffed into the middle of the series, and it is filled with poorly hidden political messages.