That is such a great song! But I had to stop myself before I started making haikus to describe my love for this game.

Best. Computer. RPG.

That is the point. From my point of view GOG is the one and only company of its kind. If it disappeared there is a small chance someone else would started similar business. 'Good Old Gamers' are specific target group, different than ordinary, modern gamers, so making profit from selling old games must be harder. We must support GOG by buying games, let them make deals with other developers, and finally expect titles of our dreams. Anyway I am going to buy more GOG games even if I don't have time to play many of them.

Is it sad that I am returning to my childhood when I saw the announcement for this game?
I remember playing this game for the first time and being blown away by it, for its day it was amazing and still holds up. From the repair hammers, to the story line that sucked me in as a kid... wow.
Damn you GoG! Quit bringing back my childhood treasured games! (yes, thats a joke :p)

nice!
Thank you GoG, THANK YOU

since this game was released for free by company that developed it [as far as i remember] i'd like go say:
1. thx GOG for bringing us another valuable title, classic GOG.
2. dear activision - NO %$#KING way.
oh - and congratulations for another Achivement. first - infinity ward, now getting money for BAK
i downloaded it for free. than somehow lost it from my hd. than activision got rights for BAK and it's not for free anymore.
i hope similar situation will not happen when we'll get Bethesda here on gog.
i love elder scrolls serie but now since we have Arena and Daggerfall as anniversary gift having them on gog for 6$ would be... activision style surprise.

Oh people if you just did your research before going into arguments world would be a better place to live in

Read this.
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my bad.
for my excuse - i did wrote 'as far as i remember'

Not really. You could read some of the Midkemia (Riftwar) books, but you don't really need to. You won't be familiar with the political factions and setting immediately, but you'll come up to speed fast enough.
(I hadn't read any of the books when I played it the first time, and enjoyed it immensely)
The story in this game is so amazing that Feist went ahead and wrote an actual book telling the same story. So if you do decide to read some Midkemia books, just make sure _not_ to read "Krondor: The Betrayal", or you'll give everything away :)
And be prepared for a very, very long game -- in the best possible way. Lots of stuff to explore and do, lots of people to meet, lots of intersecting storylines, not so much tedious busywork.
EDIT: Fixed the book title...
EDIT take 2: I suppose you might want to read the Riftwar trilogy, especially if you're already in the middle of some other game :) BaK takes place 10 years after the events in the last book of that series. I hadn't read it and managed to keep up, but it might make more sense sooner if you knew the recent history. Alternatively, if you're in a hurry, Wikipedia is useful for plot summaries:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riftwar

fyi This is not the CD version.. The full CD version is ~300mb compressed// 600mb uncompressed.

This is the CD version, for all intents and purposes.
The music has been converted to OGG to save space, but the GOG version even includes the interview with the author that was on the original CD (source).

Just my two cents, but I actually read Krondor: A Betrayal and I thought it was utter crap. It was a terrible book. Really, there are no words to express how infantile I thought the prose was. I forced myself to finish it almost masochistically.
Which amazed me, because I think the story (and its presentation) in Betrayal at Krondor is excellent. It's one of my favorite RPGs.
I also tried to read one of Feist's other books. Not Riftwar...some other crap. I think it was science fiction. I couldn't even make it past the first chapter.
So in short, I wouldn't recommend reading any of Feist's books. Maybe Riftwar is a hundred times better than these other books, but I have a hard time believing that. Of course, to each their own. I just think his novels may put someone off to what is an amazing game. So I wouldn't personally recommend them to anyone.
Also, this is not the first example of a book-based-on-a-game-written-by-the-same-author being terrible. I read both published Gabriel Knight books - Sins of the Father and The Beast Within. Both were written by Jane Jensen, who is an otherwise accomplished author. Sins of the Father was terrible. The Beast Within was better, but still a bit of a mess.
There are other excellent game-to-book adaptations though., Tex Murphy: Pandora Directive is a bit hokey in some parts, but overall a very enjoyable sci-fi noir novel that more or less stays faithful to the game (and I think it was written by the game's director or something, but I can't remember...he WAS tied to the game's development though). Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller is another example, and frankly I think the book was better than the game by leaps and bounds (even though the game came first).
I fear I've gone a bit off topic. Summary: Krondor: A Betrayal is a terrible novel. Avoid it. But buy this game. It's excellent.

Wow oh wow - this is one of my top 10 games of all time.
I hope we can get Betrayal in Antara now too.

I actually agree, at least within my experience. I picked up Krondor: The Betrayal and another Midkemia book (I believe it was Magician, the first Riftwar book) because I loved this game, and didn't finish either one -- gave them away to the local library. I guess the setting works well, but at least for me (and you, apparently) the game writers did a better job of telling a story in that setting than Feist himself.
So yeah, buy the game and enjoy it on its own merits. If you want backstory and setting, use Wikipedia's plot synopses for the Riftwar saga, which will let you bypass writing styles and just give you the settings and people. Or just play it cold and enjoy finding out about everything as you play, like I did.