My bad, I could have sworn he tried both the killing curse and crucio against Bellatrix after Sirius died.

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…

We’ve decided to give you a totally new take on vampire games! First off, being out in the sun does nothing to you besides giving you a good tan. Second, there’s no pesky vampire hunters responding to you feeding off people and murdering them. Third, you don’t have any vampiric weaknesses like to garlic or silver or…

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.

It was important for us to give players who sought out to be a Dark Witch or Wizard an opportunity to do so

Evil with no consequences just sounds like lazy game building to me.

Why? Isnt the whole point of being evil in games to see how it effects the environment and gameplay? Like, a “morality bar” is often a fairly lame mechanic but watching your environment and story shift because you do evil shit is like 80% of the reason evil shit is interest in games. “look you can shoot their body…

Not only that but they require the user to have a ton of magical ability. [Puts on nerd hat] Harry tried to Crucio Bellatrix LeStrange as revenge for killing Sirius and it didn’t go as planned.

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.

Im excited for the game but this doesnt make sense. Even Fable 1 if you acted like a dick the villagers treated you like one. 

Aren’t the unforgivable curses really powerful, hence the lure of wanting to use it but at a cost in the HP universe? If you put that in the game without consequences then everyone will be using it.

The idea that a Harry Potter fan wants a game in which you can go around killing folks and committing war crimes against goblins is still bizarre to me. I admittedly haven’t been a big fan of Harry Potter since the books were coming out but like... neither of those things were ever high on the list of fantasies I…

“We don’t want to be too judgmental”?

Sounds like the developers were just too lazy to implement consequences for the players’ actions which fit the setting. Instead they have a designer give one of the cheapest responses I’ve ever seen about “role-playing” as though the entire point of role playing wasn’t that your choices have consequences.

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…

It really feels like if they wanted to allow players to be a dark witch or wizard, they should have made a different game where you’re not also a student. There are so many spells in the HP universe for disarming or disabling or even still harming other wizards that they could have made a robust combat system without…

generally speaking, the thing that makes roleplaying choices interesting is the consequences of those choices

Putting all my pre-existing negative feelings about this game aside, this just feels... Lazy. If you’re going to let people do things that are considered unforgivable crimes in the world of your game, there should really be consequences. Not necessarily a “punishment” for the player- surprise, “consequence” just means…

‘We don’t want to judge you for using something that is literally called an unforgivable curse.’