JoWood Apologizes to Fans Over Poor Quality of Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods

Apparently enough people (rightly so apparently) have complained about the various bugs, poor quality and various other issues with the recently released Gothic 3 : Forsaken Gods that publisher JoWoos has taken it upon themselves to issue a formal apology.

Over on the JoWood Forums, the apology– which was recently published over on the German site PC Games– was translated as such:

First of all we want to thank the community for showing their support and we also want to thank those who have chosen to buy the game.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t possible for us to release a game that could fully satisfy you, for different reasons. The game was released this year because that was what we and the community desired.
JoWooD and Trine have worked under a lot of pressure, and to repair some of the mistakes we released the game with a patch to try and make it better.

Michael Kairat, Executive Producer of JoWooD said: “We are now getting the “bill” from the community for our mistakes. JoWooD Productions would like to present their apologizes to the fans for releasing an unsatisfying game.”

Furthermore Michael Kairat explained that in the next days a new patch will be released which will improve the quality of the game and it will be available for download on JoWooD’s Official Website.

“We also want to make a content patch which will include opinions, suggestions, wishes from the community. After the feedback from the community, we will release a statement regarding the patch.
Together with Spellbound we will make early beta tests for Arcania : A Gothic Tale, to be sure that the past mistakes will not be repeated.”

A patch was sent to FileFront on Wednesday, which you can get here. The patch in question that Kairat is speaking of has yet to be released but as soon as we find out more, we will be sure to let you know.

Hopefully, JoWood and Trine have learned their lesson, a hard one, but a valuable one nonetheless.