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Garrett
Joined: 13 Jul 2001
Posts: 74
Location: Munich, Germany |
| Gothic 3 in Q4/2005 - Jowood expects loss in 2004 |
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Jowood announced a targeted release date for Gothic 3, which is now scheduled for Q4 of 2005. However, it is Piranha Bytes who develop it so this is yet to be confirmed by PB as you can see from Jowood's infamous announcement of the second Gothic 2 addon, which then never happenend (still no official statement about this embarassing affair - it looks like Jowood announced it without contacting PB first, who refused to spend more time in G2, but wanted to concentrate on G3).<BR>In related news, Jowood expects to miss its targeted sales figures of 22-25 million EUR, but 'only' 21 million EUR, due to weak sales figures in Q4/2004. Let's hope the Austrian publisher is not getting into trouble again as they did 2 or 3 years ago... |
Mon Jan 17, 2005 8:18 pm |
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Halsy
Village Leader
Joined: 18 May 2003
Posts: 84
Location: Toronto |
Had they released an English version of the addon, they would have had a lot more sales.
Let's hope Gothic 3 is a simultaneous release. Out of sight quickly becomes out of mind and it hurts sales in North America when European publishers don't get them out here quickly. Soemthing JoWood has ignored to its own detriment before. let's see if they've learned this time around.
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Mon Jan 17, 2005 8:20 pm |
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Corv
Village Dweller
Joined: 05 Sep 2004
Posts: 21
Location: Austria |
Yeah our local publisher Jowood has to get better business partners in America to publish their games, thats for sure. But what I think its REALLY great about Jowood is that it doesn't try to force game developers to finish the game in a certain time, and don't interfere in the creation of games. They give the developers the freedom they need. Just imagine Gothic being published by, for example, Electronic Arts! The same would happen to it as happend to Ultima. Such companies are the death of creative and complex RPGs. Jowood may have its flaws, but it has the right attitude there.
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Thu Jan 20, 2005 9:05 am |
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Uocjat
High Emperor
Joined: 06 Mar 2003
Posts: 706
Location: deep in the dungons of area 51 |
i know this is an old topic but i've just noticed it .. and would just like to say about jowood .. that as far as i know gothic 1 was cut way short compaired to what it was ment to be .. theres evidence of this every where in the game
the abandoned mine is just one of them
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Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtsy,
it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod
are, the olny imprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and
lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. the rset can be a
total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey
lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. |
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Tue Mar 15, 2005 9:53 pm |
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Hindukönig
Guards Lieutenant
Joined: 27 Feb 2004
Posts: 170
Location: Halle (Saale) / Nuremberg [Germany] |
quote:
Originally posted by Uocjat
and would just like to say about jowood .. that as far as i know gothic 1 was cut way short compaired to what it was ment to be
JoWooD didn't publish Gothic 1. |
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Wed Mar 16, 2005 12:59 am |
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Gorath
Mostly Harmless
Joined: 03 Sep 2001
Posts: 6327
Location: NRW, Germany |
And before Uocjat needs another 2 years at the forum to find it out ... JoWooD also was not involved in Gothic´s development. 
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Wed Mar 16, 2005 3:38 am |
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Uocjat
High Emperor
Joined: 06 Mar 2003
Posts: 706
Location: deep in the dungons of area 51 |
@Gorath ..
MEAN! ..
well i dont know awhole lot about gothic's birth seen i didnt even know about it till a good long while after it was released in english
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Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtsy,
it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod
are, the olny imprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and
lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. the rset can be a
total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey
lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. |
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