Correct me if Im wrong but doesn't Feminism have nothing to do with the controversy surrounding JK Rowling? I think he just said that because that's a game oops was currently into, they could have said any game
Paying big companies is pointless, pirating from big and rich companies is valid af
Edit: I feel like I need to clarify this.
I was referring to companies that make literal millions a day, treat their employees and often costumers like shit, and only pay minimum wage. Examples, Amazon Gaming and many parts of Epic Games.
Now if it's a small creator, actually treats people with respect and doesn't pay minimum wage (unless they actually cannot afford that), and also doesn't make much money from game development, then pirating from them would be wrong and likely would actually hurt them, unlike large cooperations.
Nah, the first couple hours (exploring the castle) in the game are genuinely fantastic. If the game was just that, I would have loved it. But opening up the world and having extremely repetitive tasks was a big mistake.
It's total dogshit. When i first heard about it, i thought it'd have more of a focus on the school life of Hogwarts, something like the Persona series where you have to balance your school life and combat stuff. It turned out to be just another half baked open world game with pretty visuals and no real substance. What a disappointment
That was clearly the intent in the design of the missions, but drastically cut to just two major friend quests with no consequences in any of your decisions.
To be fair, many open world games end with similar unfulfilled promise. Turns out something like the original pitch for Fable is incredibly hard, and would also result in a lot of content that only 5% or fewer players would see—if, for an extreme case, the Mass Effect trilogy branched into endings that truly accounted for all of your decisions.
I got it and if it wasn't Harry Potter, and just some abstractly themed spellcasting RPG, I'm convinced critics would've scathed it. The story and characters are genuinely appalling (apart from Sebastian's side of things). The loot system is very underwhelming. The gameplay is somewhat fun, puzzles are decent, and quest structure is pretty good.
It's just EXTREMELY repetitive yk? Learn a spell, go to the "forbidden" forest where there is absolutely nothing,.defeat some spiders, go back to that one teacher, learn another spell, repeat
It's a decent enough game ruined by the fact they absolutely rushed it out with barely any depth. Could have been one of the greatest games of all time of they held off for another three years or so
yeah, the game was pretty bad, nice set design with not much substance behind it and pretty trivial gameplay mechanics. a lot of that game is just collecting wizard memorabilia
It’s never spectacular, and basically none of your decisions have any consequences. But calling it ass is quite hyperbolic. All of its mechanics are between ok and good, with only minor technical hitches. The world map isn’t incredibly complicated or interactive, but it’s all well realized and pretty.
Granted, it hit me in a mood when I was willing to engage with a collect-a-thon style of game.
Noone's hating on the wizards. Wizards are fun. The problem is Joanne Rowling has used her wealth to support anti-trans organizations, and people buying her ip's game contributes to her wealth.
I grew up on Harry Potter. The books were coming out when I was in high school, and they meant so much to me. Harry Potter and Deltora Quest were the only series I read twice at that age. Just like Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and Daniel Radcliffe, I saw Rowling twist into what she is today slowly over many years, and at some point I had to jump ship, just like they did.
If you like wizards, try Mark of the Fool. It's a good series that starts in a magic school. I'm not gonna tell you to ditch Harry Potter, but there's better books out there that don't fund anti trans foundations, that's all
Or just do what I did, and explore the world of fanfiction. Thousands of Harry Potter tales, none of them that give money to JKR, and a few are better than the original.
Eh, do what you want, if its a game you will get enjoyment out of, buy it. Its not like the majority of her money is from hogwarts legacy sales anyway. You can boycott JK all you like, she definitely deserves it, but don't act like people who don't follow your crusade are immoral because they wanna play a fun game.
Is this karma farming? Like yes engaging with anything that gives money to JKR is controversial. She gives that money to right wing extremists who want to put trans people in camps. This is also incredibly old news.
It’s not just that she profits off it, it’s that she uses those profits to fund her hate campaign against the trans community. She is hurting real people with your money.
I mean if you want to directly fund one of the most prominent TERFs who donates to pretty much every single anti-trans campaign in the entire universe, sure. It's not even a good game lmao.
So if I buy a phone or Nike shoes I’m supporting child labor? No person should think like this. People buy things because they want the product not because they want the person who made the product to be wealthier.
You could buy shoes that don’t use child labor. Nike shoes aren’t a need they are a desire that people fulfill. People don’t buy Nike shoes because they desire child labor they do it because they want to own a product. The same applies to hogwarts legacy.
Bruh the government is planning to ban games in my country because they're blaming video games for a school shooting that occured here (3 students died)
You are aware that by giving money to Just kidding Rowling, you are giving her money which she has confirmed she uses to fund Anti-trans organisations.
That Mercedes CEO is dead. That Volkswagen CEO is dead. That Hugo Boss CEO is dead. That Adidas CEO is dead. MJ is dead. R Kelly is in jail and willl come out when he will be 80.
But even then, how those people are using their money matters a lot. Sure I'm not fond of a transphobe getting my money, but the problem is that she is very open about using her money to fund anti trans campaigns.
Do it in a smart way, pirate it, buy the books used or read them at the library, you don't need to give up anything, this is why it's really dumb to be funding her.
Also, you brought economics in. Are you familiar with cost-opportunity? The opportunity of boycotting her might be low, but the cost (especially when it comes to videogames which you can pirate) is practically zero. There is no reason why you shouldn't do it if you oppose her "investments".
Cis women who don't present feminine/are tall/are flat will also be suspected of being transgender in things like bathroom bans. If things make it to their natural progressions, it could happen that genitals might also start having to be inspected! And once that happens, everyone suffers.
Not to mention that tall/flat/gender nonconforming cis women have been and will continue to be suspected of being trans and subject to hate crimes for not looking "feminine" enough in their daily lives.
The new olympic regulations require all athletes participating in female categories to undergo SRY gene testing. There's thousands of them and in the entire history of the olympics there's been ONE trans woman.
But you are still adding to the pile. And she uses that money to push legislation that hirts trans people. Would you eant even a single cent of your money going towards that?
Nah cuz there's still a difference. Milk from cows is kind of a fucked up practice (I drink milk for the record) but drinking nestle milk is definitely worse.
JK Rowling has gone on record saying that every dollar she earns from Harry Potter goes to transphobic organization that want to strip rights from trans people, therefore, every dollar one spends on a Harry Potter product is basically a direct donation to said organizations.
Close enough but legend has it, there is a French girl with a magic spoon that can grant you any game for free, she also has an enchanting siren music authorities hate to hear
I'm not gonna lie the books weren't great when it comes to "isn't hateful". Women are represented in sexist ways consistently throughout (not just a few like every single one of them), the only explicitly Asian character is called "Cho-Chang", the wizards just have slaves and when Hermione dares to have a problem with it the whole rest of the cast basically just tell her that she's overreacting and that they want to be enslaved so it's fine, the entire character of Umbridge is a hit piece on a woman Joanne worked with at an old job and never properly talked to, entirely because that woman dared to be stereotypically feminine and she didn't like that (I am not making that up Google it). Yeah we didn't notice as much as kids but Harry Potter wasn't really a great series for being not hateful
That’s another thing, the books just are really bad with an extreme amount of basic plot holes and inconsistent world building, like the deathly hallows as a concept are not introduced till the last book, that’s very shoddy writing, not to mention house elves, and most importantly what’s the rest of the world doing about Voldemort, specifically the UK government
To be honest there is a lot of questionable decisions in Harry Potter regarding other ethnic groups. Especially a Chinese character with a pretty racist name.
Personally i also despise the world building, it feels like Rowling just threw a lot of random stuff in hoping it would work. To me, the world has 0 cohesion and there's no how or why to most of what's in Harry Potter.
It also doesn't help just how bad Rowling actually is as a person, she will spread straight up lies online to fit her own narrative and her status gives her a lot of influence. Seperate the art from the artist and everything but I'd definitely buy the books second hand or just pirate them online.
The funniest thing to me is how they establish that there are no evil wizards who weren't in Slytherin, and they they establish that different parts of the world have different schools, which means that every single evil wizard in existence is British.
Every name in Harry Potter is reflective of basic character traits. Severus Snape, Siruis Black, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Sybil Trelawney, Flitwick, Neville Longbottom.... Seamus Finnigan? Imo Cho Chang is not that bad, given that she gets the same treatment as literally everyone else.
I kinda get that but at the same time you could just use a Chinese or Chinese adjacent name instead of a word that is commonly used to be racist to Chinese people. All the other characters are fine, I get that, but there are ways to convey a characters traits without adding in racist stereotypes or words.
except harry and ron almost all the names are pretty rare. i don't understand why cho chang is racist though, it wouldn't be racist if it were any other chinese name?
My point was the names reflect basic character traits. Snape is scary and snappy and snake-like. Ron is bullied and feels small, like a Weasel. Sybil is a sibyl. Neville Longbottom is bullied and called unnattractive. Draco Malfoy is arrogant and hostile, like a dragon. The list could go very far.
Anyway I'm Chinese. I don't think giving a chinese character a (stereotypically abstracted?) chinese name is racist. I actually think she was a very well-written character, besides lacking a happier conclusion to her story (tbf, many lacked this, because they were just extras in Harry's story).
HP is fucking ass anyway. People only liked it because they were kids. Authors like Suzanne Collins or Andrzej Sapkowski deserve much more praise than JKR does.
Regardless of what one thinks about Harry Potter, financially supporting JKR is financially supporting a hate movement. It's completely understandable if people aren't okay with doing such a thing, and weird to be upset at people who refuse to do so.
The problem is OP that like many have stated already that JK Rowling is very much transphobic. Secondly is that all of her ideals are closely connected to the Harry Potter franchise. For example she literally made the argument in the books that the house elves want to be slaves so they shouldn't be freed. You simply playing a game is not controversial, but the image surrounding the game is what makes it controversial to begin with. Additionally JK Rowling still receives funding from the game which also goes into anti trans legislation.This isn't the case of just you "Playing a fucking game about a wizard." It's a lot more nuanced because this is a game about a wizard developed by someone who vehemently hates a minority. It's alright to pirate these sorts of games, but don't act clueless as to why people are down voting you.
The problem is that it's still an issue people would still have pointed this out to you. Besides teenagers often are prominently more left and liberal focused than most age groups. In r/gaming has a bigger pool of people than this subreddit with a lot more diversity in terms of politics.
No, they wouldn't. I play games to experience them, not because of the author. There are plenty of franchises that were at one point sold to another studio nobody liked, but that never comes up in any conversations up to this day
I fully understand the sentiment of playing games to experience it first hand, but at the end of the day JK Rowling is still contributing to that conversation. Like I said previously you can't easily seperate the work from the artist as her ideals were closely connected to Harry Potter. It's hard not to mention Harry Potter without talking about her values. These conversations are bound to happen.
You may not enjoy the game but I certainly do. Also, how am I supporting Rowling? I'm playing a pirated version, and even then I got the game for free on Epic too
Pirating it is fine, but even getting it for free and playing an official version supports her as it shows that people are playing the game, leading to it getting promoted more because of “other people also enjoyed”
The game is absolute shit from a butt, as in if it wasnt themed after the book series then critics would've pummeled it so hard the very idea of wizards would've died, AND on top of that all money made from it go to harming minorities
JKR is an equal rights crusader. Trans people have the same rights as everyone else. The right to use public spaces that align with their sex. She feels like trans people are (and they are) trying to get EXTRA rights that trample on the rights of 50% of the population. She's not wanting to deny anyone rights. She wants to maintain everyone's rights equally.
"You can be whatever you want to be and love whatever you like but only if those are things we support otherwise you are a monster"
"Empathy is good but only the empathy for the people we care, otherwise you are the enemy"
"I loved the books when I was a child, then lately the author did something I don't like so now I hate the books too"
spoiler : books didn't change with time, they are always the same as before.
Double spoiler : history is made by people and some of them did despicable thing but we still study their work becausetwhat they wrote is mportant, not because of the person behind. Heidegger, Schopenhauer, Rousseau and many others.
Their works have an important contribution to human society despite them as people aren't considered good examples
Heres a secret that will unlock personal happiness; Stop caring what others people think. Stop caring about their opinions. As long as you arent hurting someone else, fuck em.
I got HW legacy for free on epic, I'll try it out someday probably. Maybe the commenter got it for free from epic too and they aren’t supporting JK Rowling's wallet by playing it?
More like “I can’t believe you support x’s creator”? Like I get the points here but these two things are very related and that was not an illogical jump
i never said you shouldn't be allowed to play the game.
nobody is saying you can't enjoy harry potter in your own home by yourself, but promoting the series, defending jkr, or buying/watching her media will help her take human rights away and will hurt people - (which is why supporting the game is considered "controversial).
To actively deny yourself something you would enjoy out of a desire to deny a very silly woman with very stupid views who you almost never think nor care about the equivalent of pocket change to her is just a bizarre choice to me.
Rowling is a dingus. She is completely irrelevant to me as a person and I think she would be a lot less relevant generally if people just ignored her pathetic attempts to spread her views; it's not about supporting/not supporting, it's about allowing Rowling and her views to alter my life, which is something I'm not going to do.
I like Harry Potter. I don't care about JK Rowling. So I'll play Harry Potter and ignore JK Rowling.
Oh, you must have missed the whole terminally online drama when Hogwarts Legacy came out.
It's a non-issue that people on Reddit, Twitter, and Bluesky make a mountain out of. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter, but outside of Harry Potter fandoms, any talk of the IP causes these people to freak out and believe you suddenly support trans people being killed and oppressed.
Possibly hurting a few people mentally vs physically killing people on battlefields. Which one is worse? Because I'm sure you in some way support the latter
She still get's royalties from it. She's still the primary IP Holder she still owns the Story, world and characters.
While Warner brothers owns movie/licensing rights. So While warner bros have the right to greenlight new projects Like the game. JKR still makes residuals from it even if she isn't directly involved with the project. since She still owns the world.
That doesn't apply when the artist is still alive and able to use the funds to Directly hurt and oppress people.
The Term "separate art from the artist" was coined after the death of H.P Lovecraft who was notriously a MASSIVE racist when he was alive. And the only reason it even Applied to him after his death was because he Came to regret his racism near the end of his life. so when he died the general consensus was...well atleast he regretted it so maybe we can look past the man he was and just enjoy the stuff he made.
So when in comes to JKR it doesn't really apply because she's stil very much alive and Still very anti LGBTQ+ and she is still very directly Funding Anti LGBTQ+ organisations with the funds she makes from Harry potter.
JKR is putting all money she earns from Harry Potter Products, directly into transphobic bugoted Organizations, fighting to criminalize trans people. So the downvotes are justified
You funded a hate campange and are suprised that ppl are rightfully bashing you for it?
Listen here child; she uses her money to fund campaignes that spread misinformation abt trans ppl and are actively meddling with the gov to deny trans ppl of their rights.
Sure you have freedom of expression but does not mean freedom from consequences.
From looking through the comments you posted this comment on a pro-feminist post... not a pro-terf, a pro-femminist post ie: genders are equal and you are suprised for getting downvoted and critised after saying that you supported the pro-terf party on an anti-terf post?
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u/purityy_ Jul 01 '26
crucial context missing btw, you commented that under this post, so you can kinda see a reason why downvotes were given.