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.
I don't know how that was a personal attack, but let me try again.
Smite, you keep saying that you know what antisemitism is better than anyone else here because you're Jewish.
But you're not trans. Perhaps you should apply that logic to when trans people say something is transphobic.
And I have no clue why you keep going back to the "gender debate." That is way more broad than whether her comments are transphobic or not. And, again, maybe you should consider that you don't have as much experience in how large a spectrum gender may be as you do in being Jewish. I've tried to reign you and the others in a few times, but you guys keep trying to go from "is it transphobic to say no one is allowed to say they're a woman anymore" to "transphobia doesn't even exist and blah blah blah," things that are distractions and that people here maybe aren't really well read up on, don't have experience with any trans people, and are relying upon innate knowledge and emotions to define (on either side) and will never be resolved here
Smite, you keep saying that you know what antisemitism is better than anyone else here because you're Jewish.
But you're not trans. Perhaps you should apply that logic to when trans people say something is transphobic.
And I have no clue why you keep going back to the "gender debate." That is way more broad than whether her comments are transphobic or not. And, again, maybe you should consider that you don't have as much experience in how large a spectrum gender may be as you do in being Jewish. I've tried to reign you and the others in a few times, but you guys keep trying to go from "is it transphobic to say no one is allowed to say they're a woman anymore" to "transphobia doesn't even exist and blah blah blah," things that are distractions and that people here maybe aren't really well read up on, don't have experience with any trans people, and are relying upon innate knowledge and emotions to define (on either side) and will never be resolved here
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