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With 74,000 Kickstarter backers contributing millions of dollars to its creation, Pillars of Eternity needed to be good. Better than good, in fact – to justify its status as the then-highest-funded crowd-sourced game to hit Kickstarter, Pillars of Eternity needed to offer gamers a rich, rewarding, engaging experience they would come back to again and again.