Expedition 33 Publisher Pushes Back Against Regular Price Hikes

Over the past few months, video gaming has become a rather expensive hobby, with hardware and game prices rising consistently, risking pricing out more and more gamers as the worldwide economic situation remains challenging. However, not every publisher is set to increase prices, and some, like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 publisher Kepler Interactive, are set to continue employing a pricing strategy that is respectful of gamers’ money and time.

Speaking with the BBC, Kepler Interactive’s CEO Alexis Garavaryan commented on the company’s pricing strategy, which has “kind of taken the opposite action” to what most major publishers have done in recent years.

Elaborating further, Garavaryan said: “When we decide on a release and when we price our video games, we try to think what do we think the price should be and then we price it lower so that when players buy a game from us they feel like they’re getting a bargain. We want them to feel like we are respectful of their money, respectful of their time and that fundamentally every time they buy a game from us they’re getting a great deal.”

“We’re excited for players to be able to play five, six different experiences with the same amount of money than a traditional AAA game would bring them,” Kepler Interactive CEO concluded, delivering a small ray of hope amidst the general price hikes that show no sign of stopping.

Looking at the smashing success of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, whose art style is so convincing that some authorities in the Middle East believed the game’s artbook belonged in a museum, Kepler Interactive’s strategy has a high chance to make many of the games it will publish in the future quite popular.

While reaching the same level of popularity as the game developed by Sandfall Interactive will be a tall order, gamers have shown time and time again how they are willing to embrace all sorts of gaming experiences if they are of high quality and are priced accordingly. Hopefully, other publishers will follow suit and prevent video games from becoming something only a few can enjoy.

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