 In a posting on the game's official website, the developers announced that after a period of increased email activity from fans wishing to donate to Crate to support the project that they had added a pre-order page to the game's official website to allow fans to contribute to the project in an official manner.Fifteen days later in another posting on the game's official website, Crate stated that they had received financial support from gaming website Gamebanshee and one of the authors of the gaming related webcomic "Penny Arcade".Despite this support from their fans and various websites, Crate manager Arthur Bruno stated in an interview with "The Escapist" that pre-orders made for only a very small percentage of "Grim Dawn"'s total budget.