Really, what a bunch of whiners in the community! And it's not even an MMO we're talking about here.
Let's get back to reality and leave the conspiracy theories for those faked moon landings that the government's been trying to cover up (but we know, oh we know). There is every reason to believe that, at heart, the JoWooD and Piranha guys still have all the best intentions. The problem here is, as always, that game development these days is a huge investment. We're dealing with big amonunts of money here. So that will inevitably lead to some drama in many cases.
Projects fail in varying degrees of severity. They fail miserably sometimes. So maybe PB wasn't up to the task of creating such a huge open-ended RPG as Gothic 3 is with the budget that was allotted to them. I think that for companies like JoWooD and PB, any huge failure may well end in total disaster for those companies exactly because of the huge investment required and uncertain nature of game development. So they do everything to keep their head above the water and get some return on their investment. This is to be expected and reasonable. They are not simply hungry wolves out to steal as much of your money as they can.
What you end up with in the end, is a product that does not satisfy some of you. It happens. Tough shit. Reading all these comments is like reading "OMG WORST MOVIE EVER, WALKED OUT OF THEATER, WANT MY MONEY BACK!!" on imdb.com.
P.S. Beta testing a game would be a lot less fun than actually
playing a buggy game. So I'm not exactly paying to beta test their game. Shees.
P.P.S. Complaining about avoidable feature A not working properly and dismissing the whole game as crap is not preferable to me to, yes,
avoiding feature A and enjoying features B-Z.