Opportunism is simply about taking advantage of an opportunity without caring much for the consequences.
Opportunism implies selfish intent.
Seizing an opportunity when you see it and capitalizing on it is a trait that most successful people and businesses excel at and is not a negative in any way. You can also seize an opportunity and care about the consequences.
Maybe they are doing the latter and not the former.
In this case, they're exploiting the fact that people love Baldur's Gate so much, that any promise of an "enhanced" edition is sure to make a splash - regardless of how enhanced it really is.
Are they? I don't know about that and neither do you. Maybe they are using it to gauge interest and revive a genre they seem to feel passionate about. Again your implying intent when you have no idea what there intent is.
The consequence is that a lot of people are going to buy something that's essentially already available.
Since we don't know the exact extent of the changes, you can't know that. Even if everything they make is already available (even though we know the new content they are adding won't be.) I personally would find value in having it as a one time install with no modding needed.
As I said, just like EA Sports games coming out every year with modest improvements for full price.
So, just about every industry does that. Automobiles, audio, pc hardware, all electronics, clothing, etc, etc. If you don't want to support this then you should buy a tent and move to the mountains somewhere and become totally self sufficient. Buy a really old tent though not one that has been enhanced and improved throughout the years.
Now, is that going to harm anyone really? No.
It's just basic opportunism.
Personally, I think it's tasteless to profit in such a way - but then again, there are many, many tasteless things in this life.
Do note that if this Baldur's Gate EE ends up being something really significant - then I'm obviously wrong about this - and it wouldn't be blatant opportunism in that case.[/QUOTE]
Then why condemn them before you see any evidence for or against your point?