Pillars of Eternity Interview, Sequel Discussed Again

Pillars of Eternity is still several weeks away from its March 26th release date, but a new article-style interview on Polygon with Obsidian Entertainment CEO Feargus Urquhart is already covering the team’s plans for post-release content, as well as a sequel to the crowd-funded RPG. No surprises here, but it’s still great to get some reinforcement:

“We’re going to do some expansions because we said we would as a part of the Kickstarter,” said Obsidian Entertainment CEO Feargus Urquhart. “We’ve already started working on artwork. So we’ve already kind of figured out where we want to go in the world and the artists are doing some tests.

“But with Eternity 2, that’s the next thing. Probably at the end of this month, Josh [Sawyer] and Adam [Brennecke], the key guys on the team are all going to sit down. They’ve already come up with a list of what they want to do, kind of new game systems and that kind of stuff. We’re going to try and get going on that as soon as we can.”

It sounds like the question isn’t whether a sequel is going to be made, but how it will be funded.

Urquhart said he thinks they might once more pursue Kickstarter for funding, but was hesitant.

“”I think so, I think that’s what we’ll do,” he said. “It’s not 100 percent. The reason is because first we didn’t want to do it until [Pillars of Eternity] came out. The second thing is that the Kickstarter stuff is kind of up and down here and there. But the Shadowrun guys look like they’re pretty successful, they’re like one and a half or two million. I know if we put exploding kittens in it we could make billions.

“I think it might be a good time again for a Kickstarter, so we’re talking about it.”

He said the team needs to have a reason for going to Kickstarter for money, not just a request for more money.

“So we need to start talking about Eternity 2 so we can say we would like you to back us so we can do these things.”