Gothic 4 Publishing Deal Revealed

RPGWatch has a report up revealing a development pool called BVT Games Fund III, in which people can still invest now, has secured the rights for Gothic 4. The homepage contains some documents on the deal, RPGWatch provides a translation, with the warning that this is taken out of context.

* BVT Games Fund III participates in the project Gothic 4 as a producer by closing a “Development Agreement” and a “Publishing / Distribution Agreement”.
* The project shall be produced for the platforms PC and XBox 360.

“Development Agreement” (10/15/2007)

* Per the “Development Agreement” JoWooD is assigned the development and creation of Gothic 4 in form of true contract work.
* JoWooD committed to finishing the programming and development work on the XBox 360 version until 12/16/2009 and on the PC version on 02/01/2010 at at the latest.
* JoWooD has […] to deliver a master copy including source code and standard documentation.
* Owner of all rights to Gothic 4 shall be the BVT Games Fund III.
* The sum raised in return shall be a total of 3.485.900,00 EUR.
* The budget will be paid in milestones.