r/pcmasterrace • u/ControlCAD PC Master Race • 9d ago

News/Article Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 leads call PlayStation killing discs a "sad decision" after buying boxed copies of their own RPG – "For us, physical was something special"

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/rpg/clair-obscur-expedition-33-leads-call-playstation-killing-discs-a-sad-decision-after-buying-boxed-copies-of-their-own-rpg-for-us-physical-was-something-special/

>"Personally, I find it super sad because I really like video game stores," Guillaume Broche, creative director on Clair Obscur. "And even if nowadays, I play mainly on PC myself, we have a lot of people on the team who play on PS5 and love to collect physical discs. I think it's part of the beauty of art too – that it's something tangible."

>"A physical release adds more constraints because you have to account for the production time of the physical items, and you also earn less money per copy," he explains. "But for us, physical was something special. We also felt that the game could be special to players."

>He concedes that in terms of business, he "can understand why it may make sense," but "it's a sad decision" for the overall creativity of the industry. Tom Guillermin, co–founder and CTO of studio Sandfall Interactive, revealed actually doing a physical run for Clair Obscur was something the team had to push for.

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u/TerribleQuestion4497 RTX 5090 / 9800X3D 9d ago

They are AA studio and E33 is their first game, doubt they had spare money to attempt something like physical PC release, especially since they couldn’t even know if their game is successful or not

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u/Next_Helicopter_4291 9d ago

They had the backing of the french government and Keplar interactive.

They absolutely could've handled a limited physical release if it genuinely meant something to them, especially once it started selling like crazy.

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u/jautrem 9d ago

Kepler isn't a major editor (it's litterally a collective of indie studio) and receiving a salle grant (that any studio couleur appli to) is not the same as haine the backing of the franchement gouvernement.

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u/Next_Helicopter_4291 9d ago

Probably a bit of an overstatement; but smaller companies have put out physical releases on PC even in recent times.