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   Remember when Piranha Bytes announced on September 12 that their RPG sequel went gold and that it had been shipped for replication? Well, some mighty poo must have hit the fan in the process, because later they discovered "several problems" with the first goldmaster disc. The disc in question was pulled out of production before any retail copies were made, and they are now working on a new goldmaster.

   Whether or not they will manage to fix it in time for the previously announced October 13 release, we're not quite sure yet. And I don't think they are either. Nevertheless, the devs are still expecting Gothic 3 to start selling on October 13 in various European territories, according to their latest update from the game's official website.

   But aside from the newfound problems, there also seems to be another thing troubling the developers. In the same update, they express some concerns regarding early reviews of the gold scrapped version:
"no one has had any access to the [new gold] version that will start selling on October 13th in various European territories. No testing (by external persons) of this version can have been done. All test results that have been published up to now are based on the scrapped goldmaster or in many cases on even older preview versions."    So, hypothetically, if we were to see an early review rating Gothic 3 at 90+, would that mean it could be even better?