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Gothic 3 - Community Patch v1.2 & JoWooD Statement

by Gorath, 2007-06-20 20:41:53

The unofficial Gothic 3 community patch has been updated. V1.2 includes 48 bug fixes. A download link and English instructions can be found in the official forum . A full English release will be considered for v1.3 ...

... which will possibly be the first patch released by the community team officially supported by JoWooD. The Assistant Community Manager Glockenbeat published a lengthy statement clarifying JoWooD´s position regarding fan patches. An official English translation is not available. You can find the full German version in this forum thread .
Here´s a brief summary:

  • JoWooD founds a team of community members to make fan patches.
  • It will be lead by ACM Glockenbeat.
  • The members have to sign an NDA. After that they will gain access to the Gothic 3 source code.
  • They won´t be put under pressure. All work they do is voluntary.
  • The project has a "not very small" budget.
  • At another place in the forum Community Manager Johann Ertl wrote that JoWooD will not take legal action against those who reverse engineer Gothic 3 to create bug fixes or mods.
Glockenbeat avoided to mention whether or not JoWooD will contract a professional development studio to work on an official patch and why the recruitment for the fixteam happened behind the back of the by far biggest Gothic community World of Gothic.

 

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Gothic 3

SP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Fantasy
Genre: Action-RPG
Platform: PC
Release: Released


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