{"id":46047,"date":"2012-10-17T13:20:31","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T11:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=46047"},"modified":"2012-10-17T13:22:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T11:22:08","slug":"project-eternity-kickstarter-ends-with-plenty-in-the-piggybank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/46047-project-eternity-kickstarter-ends-with-plenty-in-the-piggybank","title":{"rendered":"Project Eternity Kickstarter ends with plenty in the piggybank"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite falling juuuuuust short of their final $4 million stretch goal, Obsidian’s Project Eternity Kickstarter campaign closed up last night with a totally respectable $3,986,929 pledged by 73,986 backers. This also makes it officially the biggest ever Kickstarter gaming campaign, beating out previous record-holder Double Fine’s\u00a0 Adventure campaign<\/a>, which racked-up $3,335,265.<\/p>\n

Additional money donated through PayPal, adding up to some $150,000 or so, puts Obsidian’s funds over the $4 million mark, so the studio’s (intriguingly vague) promise to “enhance the whole game<\/a>” will presumably be kept.<\/p>\n

Stretch goals that were previously met include the adding of extra playable races, classes, companions, factions, regions, item crafting, and a “mega (mega mega mega) dungeon (dungeon, dungeon, dungeon)<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

Mac and Linux versions of the game will also be made thanks to the stretch goals being reached.<\/p>\n

The game is tentatively scheduled for launch in April 2014, but with almost $3 million more than Obsidian had originally expected, the extra cash may well be invested in making a much bigger game that could extend development time. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what happens.<\/p>\n

Source: Kickstarter<\/a><\/h5>\n

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Project Eternity details revealed by Obsidian Entertainment<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m making a note here, “HUGE SUCCESS”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":44666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,2366,1273,6777],"class_list":["post-46047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-kickstarter","tag-obsidian","tag-project-eternity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}