I don't care about HP in any significant way but the game looks kind of neat and I plan to play it at some point. Maybe if it hits GamePass or if I can get it on sale in a year or two.

I mean I get what you’re saying, but the large majority of reviews are saying it’s far from “very bog standard” lol.

It’s an amazingly deep and fun game. My 9 year old and 15 year old daughters are having a blast exploring. Even my 43 year old wife, who doesn’t play games at all, loves going around and collecting things, opening up the map, etc. The long and short is, it’s probably one of the best, biggest, most fun, and most…

Its been a long week, I have covid, my school got shot up this week. But you are correct in saying that my allyship is rooted in convenience. I’ll take that. I’m also the best you’re going to get.

The hoops were already there, I just moved the marker.

Carolyn, you really need to relax. You are reading WAY too deep into some of this shit. I get it, it’s cool to be on the Rowling hate train and Kotaku loves stirring up unnecessary controversies, but it’s okay to enjoy video games, even controversial ones, without the baggage of social commentary and toxic social…

#1 - Calling JK a “virulent transphobe” is a bit of an exaggeration, no? I suppose it’s subjective.

On the main page before clicking on the article, it indicated there were 11 replies. Minute or so later it said 4 and as of this writing I can only see 2. Gotta be some furious deleting going on.

I mean I’ve already seen a now deleted comment saying to someone to set themselves on fire for posting a different, pretty non offensive viewpoint. Classy.

“Dummies Guide To: How Much Can We Milk the Harry Potter Controversy For Clicks”.

Kotaku is losing me more and more every article you all write, im a full fledged liberal that thinks trans rights are human rights. I cant stand coming to this site hardly anymore because its not about games its about politics. In every article. I’m just trying to escape, my life is rough too...

It’s intentional. They’re going to beat this dead horse over and over because people engage with it. I mean, at this point it’s patently clear the “boycott” from a handful of loud online personalities didn’t affect sales by any discernable measure (it’s sold very well and it’s popular on Twitch and Steam), and in some…

I wonder if something came out about George Lucas saying something similar, if people would still respond the same way about all of Star Wars (even if he still got royalties). Harry Potter (like Star Wars) are both a bit beyond their original creators at this point.

it’s a video game.

I don’t think Rowling is anti-trans. To say so is to deny a conversation. She’s a TERF, but that’s trans-exclusionary, not pro-trans-genocide. It operates on the basis that women and trans women don’t have enough in common to have shared interests.

The only way this game can be realistic is if all of the economic/production data given to the player is completely fabricated and over-inflated, but you don’t know by how much. Like you think you have X units of steel being produced, but the reality is you have a fraction of that. And do that across all of your input…

Don't tell me you are okay with any kind of bullying. Jesus dude.

It sounds like you have very little grasp on how people actually are harassing people for playing the game. I’m not trolling. People are being assholes to people for playing the game. I think you need to read up on the situation before calling me a troll.

So they are given the right to harass or bully other people? I think you need to rethink what you said. Harassment or bullying does not welcome more harassment or bullying.

Yeah, I don’t think attacking people over the matter is really making as much progress as some people seem to think it will. Quite the opposite, really.