Hogwarts Legacy Continues To Get Dragged Online Ahead Of February 10th Launch

December 28th, 2022 - 5:41 PM EST by Brandon Wink

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The upcoming Hogwarts Legacy game, being a more open-world take on the Harry Potter franchise as a whole, has started to see increasing commercial presence as the game launches in just over a month. Due to this increased visibility, the calls to boycott the game, based off of the supposed profits reaped by author J.K. Rowling, have begun to increase as well. Fans of the series who do not like Rowling's controversial statements, which are often labeled transphobic, have called for the game to be completely boycotted in the community online.

However, there are plenty within the community who are trying to push back against the boycott. Some noting that Rowling herself, being obscenely wealthy, would not even notice the financial effects if the game didn't sell well, while the developers who worked on it could find themselves out of a job if it doesn't do well. Others, doubling-down on the comments made by Rowling, are saying that they want to play the game spitefully to support Rowling, or that they wouldn't play the game at all for a reason other than Rowling's reputation. This boils down to multiple different factions within a larger group being at odds with themselves, as well as others in antagonistic groups, with a month still to go before the game officially launches.


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Cimyr
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Cimyr

So I know its an unpopular opinion, Im sure, but I still cant believe this is such a huge issue for people.

Every time I hear about the whole "JK Rowling is evil" you'd swear she went on Twitter to support the total destruction of the LGBT or whatever.

Then I check what got her into hot water and its literally "Im a woman, I really dont want the idea of being a woman to be erased." or "I think calling someone 'A person who menstruates' is stupid.".

Maybe its because Im a straight white dude, maybe its because I'm not part of Gen Z(Im a millennial I guess? Technically?) but I have a hard time getting mad at these statements since I dont think she's really wrong.

Then again I dont know many trans people but it really feels like a majority of people just kind of jumped on a hate bandwagon without actually looking at what she said.

I mean, correct me if Im wrong but the tweets I looked at dont really give off a "I hate trans people" vibe.

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for me it's the train of thought that brought them to think about the developers and how they "already got paid anyway" but not on either how this will hurt them financially in the long run (game doing badly HAS consequences on the studio, even if they already got paid) or how JK Rowling is not going to be affected financially by it in the slightest
just say you don't care about any of that and just want to see this IP burn, cause if you go down the rabbit hole of wanting to be supportive of the people that worked on it then you should by all means stop in your tracks and let it happen, a production like this in any media is always done and affects the lives of thousands of people all at once so again if the game does bad they're all gonna feel it. All of them besides JK, which has like unlimited money from unlimited sources (which are all linked to even more people, even the books themselves have editors and publishers that would get affected if boycotted)

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