From what I've heard Gothic 3's biggest problems was that it's beta in the box, and that they still havn't fixed that...
You haven't noticed that they had already poroduced some patches ?
But they also say that they'll still have a *lot* of work to do.
A kind of poll here in Germany had the result of Gothic being elected by German readers as the best and the worst game of 2006 at the same time.