Had they done that, fans would have forgiven many of the flaws of the game itself, saying that while it really is nothing on the level of Night of the Raven, at least it was a fun little quest to immerse us back in the Gothic world. I say 'Forsaken Fans' because this was an opportunity to make up for past misdeeds on the part of JoWood: all they really had to do was release the expansion in a relatively bug-free state and with the performance optimized based on learnings from the release of Gothic 3. It has been pointed out that I shouldn't waste so many words on a crappy game - and I will follow that advice and not bury my lead: Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods is a crappy game that none but the most rabid Gothic fan should bother playing and no one at all should part with full price to get. So how did things go? Read on and find out! With JoWood working on Gothic 4 and Piranha Bytes developing Risen, neither one was in the position to have their reputation tarnished further by having the expansion for Gothic 3 released in sub-par form (while Piranha Bytes is not the developer, their name is inextricably linked to the Gothic franchise). So what does this have to do with Gothic? Well, Gothic 2 was good enough to make Gothic 3 a hotly anticipated title on an international scale, but the issues with that game hurt the franchise as well as both Piranha Bytes and JoWood, the developer and publisher.

stated that they knew that they diminished quality and value of the two expansions to that game had lost them more than a few fans, and that they hoped that wouldn't translate into folks not giving the upcoming 'Project Origin' a chance. I read something recently where the developers of F.E.A.R.

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