Shroud of the Avatar’s Kickstarter Campaign Finishes

That, as they say, is a wrap. The Kickstarter campaign for Richard Garriott’s Shroud of the Avatar has come to an end, and at the final bell the project had raised just over $2 million between both Kickstarter and the Shroud of the Avatar website. Which, in turn, means that we’ll get to see this stretch goal realized in the game:

$2M: Players Take over the World!!!

• Castles & Keeps effectively a new “Town Type”, where the structure is ownable by players or guilds
• Guilds can declare war against other guilds
• Guilds can declare as full time PVP
• Guilds can earn a guild house and guild bank
• Guild Tabbard/Shield/Flags useable by all members
• Minimum of 5 castle types added to the game
• Castle merchants with unique merchandise
• Castle defense scenarios for most castles which can be played offline as well as online

Of course, the fundraising doesn’t end with the Kickstarter campaign; pledges can still be made through the Shroud of the Avatar website, via credit card or PayPal. So perhaps we’ll see some of those top-level stretch goals reached after all, in the none-too-distant future.

At any rate, congratulations to Richard Garriott and everyone at Portalarium! We look forward to playing Forsaken Virtues and every subsequent episode of the Shroud of the Avatar series in the years to come!