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The Grim Dawn Kickstarter ends this Friday! Check out our revised reward chart + New Music!

Update #13 · May 14, 2012 · 76 comments

Entering this final week, some changes have been made to the rewards based on feedback from fans.  This includes the prior addition of Swashbuckler and Drunken mastery tiers and the extension of alpha / beta access, digital extras and expansions to secondary game copies in multi-copy bundles, making for quite a value! 

By popular demand, new $48 and $78 co-op bundles plus first expansion have been added.  Check out the reward chart for details!

Also, don't forget about the stretch goals!  We've already locked down the first two and the third, promising an additional end-game boss is within $10k!

Finally, attached is another great track from Dan Crislip and Steve Pardo!  This one is more of an ambient track that is sure to up the creepiness of the desolate farmlands north of Devil's Crossing.

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      Creator Rick on May 14, 2012

      Geez finicky much? You can change your pledge tier any number of times before the end of the drive so why does it matter? You don't get charged until the project is funded anyway.

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      Creator Alexspeed on May 14, 2012

      This is all very confusing. In my opinion Kickstarter should prevent projects from altering all those goals and rewards after they have been set at the beginning. You have to think your campagin through before you announce something and not require your backers to check back every few days if there are new tiers or changed ones. This is a thing i dont want to support.

      Also i was a backer from the start and i was looking forward to this project, what i pleged for was an "Early Access Edition". Now even cheaper pledging options have more early access (alpha) than the "Early Access Edition" which dosent have it. This is a joke.

      This is all messed up and i will remove my pledge, it dosent matter anymore anyway for you.

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      Creator Scott Hunter on May 14, 2012

      I wonder if you continnue composing music for the game up until it ships, if the soundtrack might end up multi-disc (!) (?).

      Great work, again. Reminds me of what Trent Reznor is doing these days for film; I could see a Ghost Rider standing motionless, staring across a desolate horizon when I hear it.

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      Creator Ryadan Jeavons on May 14, 2012

      @LeePerring Thanks for your response. I guess the "(does not include duplicate of all the extras)" throws me a bit because its hard to know if the alpha and beta are considered "extras" or if they are just part of the copy.

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      Creator lee perring on May 14, 2012

      No you dont, if you check the reward chart it looks fairly clear but basically:

      $78 is the co-op collectors edition expansion pledge, this contains all the collector edition stuff plus 2x codes for the game and expansion.

      The reason its more expensive is that it comes with more stuff (collectors edition). basically adding on $28 for 2x expansions and a second game, not bad imo!

      Hope that helped you understand :).

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      Creator Ryadan Jeavons on May 14, 2012

      So I'm confused now, does the $98 co-op bundle include the alpha and Beta versions for the copy as well? Maybe someone can help me out: I want two copies of the game BOTH with alpha and bEta versions and I want the expansions DLC with a copy too. Is this the $98 version because if it is not I will probably change mine down to $50 as it looks mostly the same.

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      Creator Dan Crislip on May 14, 2012

      I can't take the credit for this track. This was all Steve's masterful guitar playing and compositional skills.

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      Creator Raúl Molina Arista on May 14, 2012

      Whith 48 $ you have a free expansion,whit 50$ collector edition,you must have,or not? :D

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      Creator Crate Entertainment on May 14, 2012

      Ugh, sleep, yes, thank you for reminding me as well ; )

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      Creator myblade on May 14, 2012

      hahahaha... I'm sorry. I just didn't see the link above... Thank you... (Self-Reminder: Need more sleep!)

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      Creator Crate Entertainment on May 14, 2012

      @myblade as stated in the update, we've revised things based on requests to include copies of extras. KS does not allow us to edit the reward descriptions, so you have to rely on the chart, which should be accurate.

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      Creator myblade on May 14, 2012

      @ Crate: So the 98$ tier is the complete edition? But it just states

      "Co-op Digital Deluxe Bundle includes everything from the $85 version plus one additional digital copy of the finished game (does not include duplicates of all the extras)."

      When it comes to my understanding, this means no extras and no expansion for the additional copy.

      This is not like the 74$ tier, where you get two complete digital collector's editions and two expansions :)

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      Creator Crate Entertainment on May 14, 2012

      @Martin The intention with the $100 tier was that you'd get a physical copy but also we wanted to let people download it if they wanted but using the same game key (in case the disk ever became scratched or they didn't want to open the box or whatever).

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      Creator Martin Jendrusch on May 14, 2012

      ChosenOne asked a really good question. Pledged 110 $ thinking it contains a physical and a digital copy of the game. I might need to change the bonus in time if I'm wrong.

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      Creator dan helyar on May 14, 2012

      Oh, and Alpha access interests me, but really Beta would do. I'd up to 60 for game+exp+beta+OST without the other frills.

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      Creator dan helyar on May 14, 2012

      Yeah if I want the game + expansion, I could get them for $48 for _2_ copies! I'll miss out on the OST, but surely the OST can't be worth more than a game + expansion :S

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      Creator Monsignor on May 14, 2012

      Great ambient, like it

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      Creator Crate Entertainment on May 14, 2012

      @TheChosenOne You are correct in that the game disk and 1 digital key will be the same and then there is one extra unique key for a total of 2 copies of the game. Then also, 2 copies of the expansion.

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      Creator Legion on May 14, 2012

      I want the expansion + beta access but don't want the $85 bundle with a bunch of stuff I don't care about :( The $48 bundle doesn't include beta access and the friends I'll play with have already pledged themselves so the extra copy is useless to me! Already on board with the $35 pledge, give me a reason to put in a bit more!!

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      Creator Crate Entertainment on May 14, 2012

      @myblade the $98 is the digital deluxe co-op, since digital deluxe already includes the expansion, we didn't need to create a co-op expansion tier for it. ; )

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      Creator Tomáš Koucký on May 14, 2012

      dan helyar: good question, because i see only 85 dolars alternative, if you want alpha+beta acess

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      Creator dan helyar on May 14, 2012

      Hmmm, I'd like a game + ost + expansion bundle :(

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      Creator dan helyar on May 14, 2012

      Does $50 include the expansion?

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      Creator TheChosenOne on May 14, 2012

      Show a small picture! It looks cool. :P
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      If you get lets say the $150 pledge you get 1 game disc and 2 keys. Is that 2 or 3 copies total?
      I asume you will have to use 1 key for the game regardless if you want the ingame stuff and all? Thus having 2 copies in total.
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      And the $48 lvl looks to be very cheaply priced/discounted. For $12 more then 2 solo games you get the 2 games and 2 expansions. Well good for the backers I guess. :P

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      Creator myblade on May 14, 2012

      Nice :) But unfortunately no complete bundles of digital deluxe edition. :( One additional tear for this bundle would be appreciated :)

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      Creator garkham on May 14, 2012

      I'm already far over those tiers but great !! :-D

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