Abbreviating Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 qualifiers

BUR #61535 is pending approval.

These qualifiers are absurdly long it's unsightly. Since we lean towards abbreviating such long names in qualifiers, I think they should be changed to either *_(clair_obscur) or *_(expedition_33).

*_(expedition_33) feels better and more intuitive to me as the main theme and the more common abbreviation online. OTOH, *_(clair_obscur) might prove more future-proof as the devs are on record saying they want to continue Clair Obscur as a franchise, and some of the characters could reappear in a future title, but that's an if and years down the line.

BUR #61536 is pending approval.

*_(clair_obscur) version.

I would definitely prefer Expedition 33 as the qualifier if it was worth shortening the qualifiers, and I'm presumptively imagining that any future titles in Clair Obscur will also be referred to by their respective title as well. Shared characters is a tricky ballpark though, especially if a series tag gets made in the future. I'm fine with keeping the status quo of the full name until the bridge actually needs to be crossed.

It just bothers me an unreasonable amount to see individual character tags take up 2 lines on a wide screen when perfectly sensible alternatives are available. This is the inevitable fate of nested vtuber/gacha costumes, not baseline RPG chartags, plz fix

Do people ever use "Clair Obscur" to call the game? Every single game related talk it's literally Expedition 33. It is the best choice as a qualifier imo

ggraphy said in forum #451175:

Do people ever use "Clair Obscur" to call the game? Every single game related talk it's literally Expedition 33. It is the best choice as a qualifier imo

They do, just not as commonly I think. On social media and art sites, both #ClairObscur and #Expedition33 are populated, with #Expedition33 having somewhat higher numbers (pixiv as an example since nowhere else shows exact numbers: 309 vs 473). I also prefer Expedition 33 but either one would work.

There seems to be agreement that Expedition 33 is the better qualifier, but to be clear the game director did confirm that "Clair Obscur" is the franchise name while "Expedition 33" is one story in the franchise. So if you decided the qualifier would be "Clair Obscur" you will definitely have to rename it once another game comes out.

We use franchise names just fine because it's unlikely that there's overlap: see Judith (Tales), White Mage (Final Fantasy), Crackle (Taimanin). Clair obscur is the correct choice here.