With Pillars of Eternity having no publisher deadlines, however, Obsidian has a chance to shake that negative association and make this game the most polished the studio has ever released. Obsidian's work might be wonderfully creative, but it's also been criticised for being unfinished and with bugs in the past. Nevertheless, Sawyer said Eternity's budget continues to grow, as people up pledges or others put money down, and he believes "at least a few hundred-thousand more" have been added to the original $4.3m pile. This is a Kickstarter-funded project, remember, not a publisher-backed blockbuster. Once Ubisoft's South Park: The Stick of Truth finally wraps (it's out in early March), Eternity's staff force will grow, particularly in the design and animation departments, but it won't as much as double. Today, "more than half the content of the game is done, at least to an alpha state".īear in mind that while Obsidian employs more than 100 developers, only 20-25 work on Eternity. It's not going to be in spring we're going to be working into spring to get alpha done because it's a big game." "But until we get really close to releasing the game we don't want a specific release window, because we're not a publisher, we don't have to! Virtually nothing good comes from us releasing a date before we're very confident in it. We got almost four-times as much money and that's a much bigger game, and that doesn't mean that immediately we just dump four-times as many people on it and it also gets done in April. "When we started with a million-dollar budget and a relatively modest game with five classes, that was assuming if we get $1m we can make this game and we'll probably get it done by April. "We foresaw needing a bit more time when the Kickstarter ended" Josh Sawyer You're not allowed to change to that date. It's understandable that people don't know this but when you start a Kickstarter, once it goes live, you can't change that date. "It's going to come later."Īnd then he explained: "We foresaw needing a bit more time when the Kickstarter ended. Is it realistic, then, for people not to expect Pillars of Eternity in the first half of 2014? "Yeah," he answered. ORIGINAL STORY 05/02 10.30AM: When is Pillars of Eternity, your 10th most anticipated game of 2014, coming out? Spring? That's what developer Obsidian said during the game's Kickstarter campaign.īut no, according to project lead Josh Sawyer, who spoke to me recently, "It's not going to be in spring." What about summer? Probably not. So, look forward to getting your hands on Pillars of Eternity later this year," wrote producer Rose Gomez in the latest project update. "We are looking good to release Eternity by Winter 2014.
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UPDATE 11/02 11.45PM: Obsidian has just officially announced a "winter 2014" release window for Pillars of Eternity.
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