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JoWooD made real good money with Gothic 3 (according to their own press releases) and now dumps the development team that safed their ass (JoWooD was always in money troubles over the years, without Gothic 2 and Aquanox they would've been vanquished). That's really frustrating.
That's not quite the whole story though . You need to remember that it was JoWood who saved PB's ass first when the publisher of Gothic I, Shoebox, and Phenomedia (the company that owned PB back then) went out of business. PB was very lucky to survive during that phase thanks to JoWood. There would (most likely) not be a Gothic II without JoWood or -similar to the situation now- it probably would have never been done by PB since PB would have been forced to auction off the brand or the brand would have ended up as part of the bankruptcy assets.
Anyway, in terms of "ass-saving" they're sort of even .
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