Efter den makalösa Kickstarter-succén med Wasteland 2 och Torment: Tides of Numenera, har InXile Entertainment fått blodad tand och meddelar nu att The Bard's Tale IV är nästa spel på gång att finansieras på detta sätt. Studio-chefen Brian Fargo säger till Gamereactor:
"As part of this campaign, so we're being clear, we're putting our own money into it too. So we're asking for $1.25 million, but we're saying right up front that we're going to put a minimum of that much of our own money on top of that to make sure the quality is as high as possible."
Kickstarter-kampanjen för The Bard's Tale IV startar den 2 juni, vilket sammanfaller med 30-årsjubileumet av lanseringen av första spelet i serien. Unreal Engin4 är valet av grafikmotor denna gång, men konsolerna tycks inte få vara med och leka:
"We're not thinking about [Bard's Tale on console]. I mean we're using Unreal and as I get further into development and somebody says 'you know, Brian, the footprint size you're using you can get it over to console with no degradation of quality for not too much money' then that's we're going to do. If it's something that's going to affect us negatively then we wouldn't. Bard's Tale lends itself more to console, because it looks more like a console game."
