He likely doesn’t have the no.1 issue.

Everyone forgets about Castlevania.

*tips fedora*

The story is the bigger issue though, like what the hell. Why am I mowing down sentient, intelligent creatures that want equal rights?

To summarize the objections:

I may be misreading it, but it sure sounds like the implication is that HP itself is disposable, it happens to have a lot of supporters, and because of that WB has no problem “aligning with a transphobe”, as if that was the decision being made. Which is just, again, ridiculous.

The reality is to people on Kotaku and…

The story is the bigger issue though, like what the hell. Why am I mowing down sentient, intelligent creatures that want equal rights?

JK Rowling has more money than God so I don’t buy the whole “If you buy this game you’re supporting a horrible person” schtick, she doesn’t need supporting, the entire franchise could collapse into obscurity tomorrow and she’d still die with more money in the cracks of her sofa than most people earn in a lifetime. We…

Yeah, virtually everything you buy makes someone unsavory richer. The fact that we’re paying with our personal info doesn’t make it any less real that our time on this site not doubt enriches a bunch of terrible people.

Your choice to purchase, or not to purchase, this game has absolutely no impact on Rowling. None. If you looked up “fuck you money” in the dictionary you’d probably find her face smiling back at you.

Your reasoning here is ridiculous, sorry. I just can’t read that in good faith, unless you’ve really convinced yourself it’s the case, in which case I don’t really know what else to say besides “touch grass”. Why did they choose Harry Potter? Cant be because of the generic setting, must be because of the transphobia?…

Personally at this point im just looking forward to the say we get an “Liking Hogwarts Legacy makes you a transphobe” and a “Best way to get gold in Hogwarts Legacy” articles from Kotaku in the same day.

The whole “if you give your money to someone you are responsible for their views” thing is just... ridiculously naive. If anyone believes that, you shouldn’t be on this website, because The Herb and crew still reap any rewards from this site’s success. It’s a sad fact of the world that 90% of all money you spend is,…

‘anyone who pledges to support her monetarily is also a transphobe’ and comments like that, where people say ‘you’re x if you y’, immediately draw my ire. Give me a reason that’s substantiated, not a threat of your perception of me shifting.

She’s an asshole, for sure, but has she really “proven herself to be the worst kind of anti-transgender bigot”?

The game is gorgeous and it would be one thing if this entire project was spearheaded and designed by Rowling, then I’d agree that it wouldn’t be optimal, but it’s quite clear that the studio is doing something that Rowling simply just gets a cut from, one way or the other.

it’s not that simple (unless you’re playing on Xbox Series X/S where smart delivery has you covered).

I hope this means I get the full Cedric Diggory Experience:

Hogwarts Legacy takes place roughly a hundred years before the books, which might explain the seemingly blase attitude of the in-universe characters to child torture

He knows what he did.