On Hogwarts Legacy's Early Success [Feb 10, 2023, 11:51 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
CNN Business reports on the strong early success of Hogwarts Legacy
despite the facts that the game has been embroiled in controversy and its
official launch won't arrive for another couple of hours. But the Early Access
release for Digital Deluxe Edition customers began
on Tuesday,
and reportedly "already broke a record on Twitch for being the most-watched
single-player game." The article also has a summary of the background
controversy, and efforts by the creators of the game at distancing it from J.K.
Rowling's rhetoric:
Part of the game’s expectation is based on controversy surrounding Harry Potter’s creator — J.K. Rowling. The author has repeatedly made anti-trans comments, and some of the movies’ actors have spoken out against them. Some gamers also are boycotting Hogwarts Legacy over the controversy.
“It’s not a commercial risk so much as is a cultural one,” van Dreunen said of the game’s release.
The game features a trans character, a first for the franchise. Though the Hogwarts Legacy character Sirona Ryan does not explicitly say she is trans, dialogue in a scene suggests it: “[It] took them a second to realize I was actually a witch, not a wizard,” the character said.
Warner Bros. Discovery said creating diverse characters was a high priority in order to encompass all people who play the games including the LGBTQIA+ community.
The company says J.K. Rowling is not involved in the Hogwarts Legacy game. But she does stand to make licensing royalties. Some fans have been turned off to the franchise because of Rowling’s comments, others say they won’t let that get in the way of experiencing a new world of Harry Potter.
SMITE wrote on Feb 10, 2023, 19:50:Beamer wrote on Feb 10, 2023, 19:24:
Some of you just don't want to admit anything can be bad against anyone not you
What the hell do you mean, "anyone not you?" Who are you to lecture us in this way?
I'm Jewish, so it would be against me, but the accusations of antisemitism against Rowling are insubstantial bullshit and all your talk of "tropes" can't change that.
You guys will throw anything you can at your perceived enemies in the hope that it will stick. But you don't really give a shit about antisemitism, Beamer. You only care about it when it can be used to smear someone you disagree with. You would never go after someone on your own side with a charge like that. Illhan Omar, say. You're a tribalist, through and through. No principles, only in-groups and out-groups. Your side (good) and the other side (bad).I am not going to get into a discussion about the iconography of goblins, save to say that sometimes a goblin is just…a goblin. Besides, whatever visual impression Mr Stewart may have had from the film, JK Rowling neither directed nor designed it; and there is nothing in any of the books that is even glancingly antisemitic.
The reality is that none of this is actually about goblins or even about Harry Potter. It’s about feminism and the ideological obsession of those who consider sex to be a construct rather than a biological fact.
https://unherd.com/thepost/jk-rowling-is-no-antisemite/
Thanks for taking on this fight, man. I just can't deal with the way some people think, anymore. You don't know it, but you've been the proxy of my calmer thoughts this entire thread. I'm just fucking done with the idiocy to be civilized about it.
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