Arcania - Name Change

srsly, who the f**k cares about a stupid name?

every serious gamer knows what it is and where it comes from.
and the one that dont know also dont give a s**t about the name …

but meh, thats just JoWood as usual.
 
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Probably a good idea. Cash in on whatever brand name recognition they can.
 
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What's wrong with simply calling it Gothic 4 now then?
 
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Because the publisher and forsaken gods didn't take a big enough dump on the series?
 
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Good luck JoWood - you're going to need it.
 
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The codex has spoken.
 
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Ah, but was anyone listening!! :)
 
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Wasn't it originally already "Gothic 4" and then changed to "a gothic tale"?
 
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Who holds the rights of the "Gothic" name now, actually ?
 
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Who holds the rights of the "Gothic" name now, actually ?
Wasn't there some kind of division between PB and Jowood?

It was something like: Jowood gets the right to make Gothic 4, but PB keeps all other rights?

At least that was some state of the discussion I remember, when PB and Jowood discussed their "divorce".
 
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I think that is correct, but with legal matters things could change.
 
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I believe noone actually cares what the name of the game will be as long as:
- it's not unfinished
- it has less bugs than Gothic 3
 
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I played Gothic 3 unpatched without a single bug people are always bitching about.

Either way, it was ten times better than Morrowind/Oblivion crap I had to sit through before so G3 is cool in my book. As for G4, seen the developer videos, looked pretty much like Gothic 3 with minor tweaks (and the visuals looked like ass in comparison to Risen, but that could just be the video compression).
 
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