In spite of the bright success of Gothic 3, or perhaps well because of him, the cloth burns between its developer Piranha Bytes and its JoWooD editor. Blow on blow, the German studio and the Austrian company diffused shingling press releases announcing the end of any collaboration between the two parts, after more than six months of negotiations, and giving some information on the future of the licence. First of all,
the developer specifies to have ceased any work on a large patch however envisaged and supposed inter alia correcting a whole heap of bugs in this title ô how much badly finished technically speaking. It also states that the add one a time envisaged was not any more topicality. Obviously annoyed, JoWooD does not say another thing in its
official statement by announcing straightforwardly the development of
Gothic 4, without evoking the existence of any extension for the preceding episode. In the business, the editor indeed arranged himself (like often in such a case) to keep the hand on the licence created by Piranha Bytes:
he thus launched out in the search of a developer of talent able to work out this fourth episode envisaged at the same time on PC and consoles. The play should not of the blow not arrive before a small moment.
