Sure.  Be evil, but don’t be trans I guess.

Not only that but the money you save not buying the game can go towards a different dev that needs food on their plates just as much. Think about the workers has always been a foolish justification to buy anything.

Rowling absolutely thinks that getting money is support for her politics. She has said as much, on Twitter.

Seriously what is it with straight people and their desperate need to keep blood relatives in their lives.

So many things to roll my eyes over, from the sophomoric commentary on moral relativism to the breathless defense of Rowling’s transphobia to the bizarre insistence on using the world “lil” in a context outside of rap names—just a flawless demonstration of inanity.

What gamers have always wanted... to attend an elite boarding school filled with magical racists and mass-murder random people in order to stop an uprising of oppressed minorities with no one caring one way or the other about your means other than to be mildly perturbed. (The game’s narrative is... a choice.)

Point is, YOU do not get to decide what pop culture/art/whatever people have to give up because the creator is an asshole.

Hermione wanting to free slaves 

“Would you disown your family for having shitty opinions?” rhetoric is always ridiculous in the context of queer issues because many queer people have ended relationships with family for being shitty to them for it.

It’s more like finding out your grandmother is a Grand Wizard of the Klan and still enjoys the occasional cross burning.

The “but what about the devs who worked on it?” argument has always been sophistry.  Aside from the fact that those guys don’t get paid royalties, they knew who they were working for.  They could’ve chosen to not work on it, but they did anyway.  If you have a moral objection to giving JKR your money, that should…

There’s a huge difference between being “a lil racist” and an active, vocal bigot. 

My grandmother was a little racist. Know what she didn’t do? Donate millions of dollars to hate groups and publicly attack LGBT kids. That’s what she didn’t do.

HP adults are desperately reaching for that crown.

I would quit my job at a videogame development studio if I knew I’d have to work on a toxic IP. I’d quit my job if I knew the outcome is the perpetuation of an IP that only serves to make a rich bigoted woman all that much richer.

Wow, I can’t believe the developers were forced at gunpoint to develop a game, and will only be paid after the game is released.

Well, yes. You’re kind of a douche if you are knowingly giving money to somebody who is actively using that money to dehumanize and oppress trans people just so that you can have some fun.

“It was important for us to give players who sought out to be a Dark Witch or Wizard an opportunity to do so,” lead designer, Kelly Murphy, told Gamesradar. “This is the ultimate embodiment of role-playing; allowing the player to be evil. Additionally, this was important because it comes from a place of non-judgement…

“Harry Potter game has no concept of morality” is the least surprising thing I’ve read all day.