{"id":74638,"date":"2026-04-03T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=74638"},"modified":"2026-04-03T14:41:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:41:01","slug":"expedition-33-actor-bet-someone-33-baguettes-that-the-game-would-be-a-huge-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=74638","title":{"rendered":"Expedition 33 Actor Bet Someone 33 Baguettes That The Game Would Be A Huge Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/reviews\/clair-obscur-expedition-33-review-light-and-shadow\/1900-6418358\/\">One Clair Obscur: Expedition 33<\/a> performer felt confident enough that the RPG would be a success that they bet someone at the game&#8217;s publisher 33 baguettes that it would sell 1 million copies in a week. That ended up happening, and now the voice actor, Aliona Baranova, wants her bread.<\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tHaRLkTkcxk\">Emerald City Comic Con 2026<\/a>, Baranova said she &#8220;knew&#8221; that Expedition 33 would be a hit. She raised the stakes, too, with a bread bet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I made a bet with someone called Jack who&#8217;s on the Kepler [Interactive] publishing team that it would sell a million copies in the first week. I made a bet and the bet was to win 33 baguettes. Jack, where are my baguettes?&#8221; she said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/games\/rpg\/baldurs-gate-3-performance-director-knew-clair-obscur-expedition-33-would-be-a-hit-and-even-took-a-bet-to-win-33-baguettes\/\">as reported by GamesRadar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Expedition 33 did not need a full week to sell 1 million copies. In fact, it sold <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/expedition33\/status\/1916409440011444331\">1 million units within 72 hours<\/a>. It has since climbed to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/expedition33\/status\/1975924077496852782?lang=en\">more than 5 million copies sold<\/a>. Beyond strong sales, Expedition 33 won a lot of awards, including GameSpot&#8217;s Game of the Year Award for 2025. In fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/clair-obscur-expedition-33-has-officially-passed-elden-ring-for-the-most-goty-titles-of-all-time\/1100-6537525\/\">Expedition 33 won more Game of the Year awards than any other game in history<\/a>, beating Elden Ring&#8217;s record.<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone thought Expedition 33<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 performer felt confident enough that the RPG would be a success that they bet someone at the game&#8217;s publisher 33 baguettes that it would sell 1 million copies in a week. That ended up happening, and now the voice actor, Aliona Baranova, wants her bread. At Emerald City Comic Con&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":74640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74641,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74638\/revisions\/74641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}