More than 27 thousand people transferred $3.1 million to Obsidian Studio to develop the Pillars of role-playing
Eternity 2 via the crowdfunding platform Fig.
The campaign to finance the continuation of the best RPG of 2015 (according to The Game Awards) attracted the maximum number of backers in the two-year history of the service.
This is the last time a notable game project has managed to raise significant funds through crowdfunding on Fig. The post-apocalyptic role-playing game Wasteland 3 developed by the inXile team scored $ 3.1 million, and the Psychonauts 2 platformer from the Double Fine studio received support in the amount of $ 3.8 million.
The first part of Pillars of Eternity in 2012 raised $4 million through crowdfunding, becoming at that time the most successful project of the Kickstarter platform.
Obsidian Entartaiment — developers in the genre of role-playing games, the creator of Neverwinter Nights 2, Fallout New Vegas, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II and others.
Source: Games Industry