Hogwarts Legacy's Boycott Drama Isn't Real
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With less than 1 month to go until the release of Hogwarts Legacy on PS5, PC & Xbox consoles, the drama and controversy over a potential boycott for the game is becoming more and more prevalent on social media. Many people have voiced unhapiness with J.K. Rowling and her attachment to the franchise, urging others to stay away from buying the game and calling anyone who doesn't a lot of names in the process. In this video, I share my thoughts on the situation. Thanks for watching! :)
Which style of videos do you all prefer? Scripted or on-camera discussions?
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Scripted for Reviews, On-camera for gaming news
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@@Arriss2121 Thanks for the input, Jeff ;)
Depends on the subject really, if it's just news or your opinion about something happening in the gaming world recently it fits better with a spontaneous approach, but if it's a more in depth video analysis or review/retrospective with some research and such involved then scripted is definitely better.
It's not just Hogwarts Legacy's Drama, but basically 98% of gaming related Drama... heck, it's basically 98% of internet Drama that isn't real.
I basically only find out about this endless new drama through UA-cam content creators discussing the drama.
Leaving Twitter and all other social media has really severed the ties that kept me in that loop, and I don’t mind at all.
@@HumanPerson_final
i'm still there, but primarily foe shits and giggles over those overly sensitive wokies 🥰
98 % of it is people trying to chase attention, recognition and a sense of power by hypocritically complaining and virtue signaling about a bunch of shit which never concerned them in the first place, being offended on behalf of others and attacking people based on their race and gender while proclaiming to be against racism and sexism.
100% internet dram isn't real nothing that happens on the internet matters the only reason it looks like it dose is because people are fucking stupid
@@addex1236 untrue. Some of the drama which happens on the internet is spawned from things that happened irl
That’s the real fallacy right there, that we “live in a world revolving around social media.” That only happens if you let social media run your life. Turn off your phone. Get off of Tik Tok and Twitter. Your life will be much simpler and less drama filled.
My tik tok is just videos of cats and borzois 😂
Problem is our political world runs off it too, it’s such a problem
I've never used TwAtter And the Chinese spyware app will never ever grace my phone with its curse. I've only ever been to reddit when I'm looking for specific information of how to beat a certain boss in a game or find a hidden item. And the rest of them are so small I don't even bother paying attention to them. As far as fake book goes they've had me shadow banned since I turned from supporting Bernie to supporting Trump. Social media has never ran my life because my life is too busy to be bothered with looking at it all the time. And I think that's probably the problem with a lot of these local millennials they spend too much time looking at it because they don't have anything productive to do with their lives. I guess when you have to work a job to provide for others and yourself You tend to have a more focused mindset. Worrying about the necessities in life as opposed to the dreams. And what little escapism People who work get to enjoy is being constantly destroyed by this woke ridiculous alphabet mindset. So when I see A game an IP an author or a actor who stands firm on Opposing That's societal destructive ideology. The old meme comes to mind "SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY"!
Also I think I should went the other way and said JK Rowling was personally involved in the work, because that would make d*** sure she got a h*** of a lot of sales! People are sick of this woke mind virus destroying every good IP there is for escapism. To have at least one that stands up to it is a godsend !
Look out the window I always say, there's a world outside
Guess I'm a transhphobe
Yeah me too
So what hey
Wtf are they going to do about it.
Always helpful to have people sort out the Twitter debacles from what they primarily are just a rabbit hole of excessive labeling and derailment.
What genuinely annoys me is how media takes these takes from twitter and spins it as headlines as if they were somehow popular opinions. They aren't, even if they come from echochambers that garner thousands of virtue signaling likes from those who specifically seek out every confirmation bias for their newest trending outrage.
Mainly it's an annoying frustration, because there are plenty of people who see it in the media and then adopt that view, think it is true, join a "movement of the week"...
@@sarcasm-83 At the end of the day its 2 echochambers arguing against each other - twitter libs vs gamergate.
But I do hate how the media lampshades "outrage" culture, and lets the propaganda seep into the casual audience.
You hate transgenders stop avoiding the topic
@@343ishill Yeah.. well said
@@343ishill outrage sells and for these media websites it is all about clicks. Since they really don't provide useful information, "hate clicks" are how they trying to survive.
That's not just with gaming drama. It's all drama, everywhere, all the time.
You're not wrong lol
People also say that the LGBT communty are on twitter are the worst, if they have no one to hate they will hate on eachother
@@paradoxzee6834 thats any social media addict honestly 🤣
So many articles describe the game as "controversial," but I have yet to see anything from the game that truly fits the bill. It's only "JK Rowling hates trans people," which I don't think is even mostly true. I think she does support trans people, she just feels that there's a fundamental difference between women and trans women (there is), and she's advocating for women's rights and women-only spaces because she's a woman. I don't think that's too crazy of an ask, honestly, and it's insane that there are people so radicalized by their postmodern ideology that they're painting her as the devil himself.
I wouldn't describe myself as being on Rowling's political "side," some things she's looked to change about her work after the fact to be inclusive makes me roll my eyes so hard it hurts, but she's entirely in her right to have her views and those views do not diminish her contributions to pop culture. She's my generation's George Lucas.
In the grand scope of things, Harry Potter is so big that any anti-Rowling sentiment amounts to a superminority. When the books first started to release, she had to contend with uber-Christians looking to get them banned because it depicted magic. The religious right lost that fight, and the commotion only helped it succeed. Today, the progressive left will lose the same battle for the same reason, and the only difference between then and now is how much bigger the fanbase is after over 20 years, 8 books, and like 11 movies. There was no hope of this hollow "boycott" winning.
Hell, the anti-Rowling people are so dumb that they'll buy her books just to re-bind them without her name on them to sell on eBay at a premium. I suppose it's an easy way to make money off of other rubes, but I don't know how legal that is.
I pre-ordered my copy of Hogwarts Legacy on Friday. I'm gonna enjoy it. Radicalized Twitterers will seethe. Nothing of value will be lost.
even in some of the comments people calling her trans phobic but she us not. what needs to happens the trans community needs to stand up and fuk all these extremist off before the whole of the trans community get a bad name
I just hope it’s a good game
Every new bit of gameplay gives me hope. If it's not good they've done an incredible job at hiding it while also showing off a ton of stuff.
@@woutervanr the same happened with Cyberpunk 2077 GamePlay footage...so good but WE see the end results.
So careful
@@rijusnar1994 CP2077 was great and is now even better. On PC that is, they never showed gameplay on ps4 and that's where the issues were. Hogwarts Legacy gameplay was on ps5 though so clearly no such issue on the consoles of this gen here. they even delayed old consoles probably for exactly that reason.
@@woutervanr i was refering Cyberpunk during its launch,it was a disaster .
And now even on ps5 or series x still have some issues .
Agree WE do not have to talk about ps4 or one version which are a shame
@@rijusnar1994 It wasn't, like I said, it was great on PC. I had 0 issues like many others. An npc going through a door isn't a disaster. It got blown up by media and salty retards with a ps4 to "the whole game is shit" which just wasn't the case.
Kinda tired of this subjects, but you have good points and handled it in a mature way which honestly is refreshing in todays kindergarten politic landscape. Thumbs up for being better 👍
You made a good point with the gaming community being so politically vocal about boycotting this game, yet we don’t carry this same energy for other franchises that have blatant anti consumer practices. How much money have we given away to overpriced season passes, microtransactions, copy and paste yearly sequels etc. yet some people seem to be so “split” on whether or not to support this game.
What boycott? Last I checked the game seemed to be doing very well (steam preorders) and there's a lot of interest for it.
I personally don't expect much of it but am curious to see how it fares (obviously won't care much for the gaming sites reviews, their opinions don't have much value for me).
HP universe is liked by a lot of people and the game will probably sell well (sadly, even if the game sucks), regardless of subreddits filled with propagandists.
@@xtrwq there’s a vocal demographic of people who are against this game. It’s funny because despite this, the game has already made a lot of money on pre orders. I’m just saying that we need to have this energy for other negative practices
The thing is gaming is so large and fragmented and certain big IPs so valuable that even if you make a sound ethical argument, it's not effective on a macro scale.
You might convince 5 people, maybe a couple hundred or thousands if you're a big social media person, but it won't make a dent on anything.
Personally, I don't vibe with bad greedy monetary practices, devs being treated poorly and all the other nasty things companies and people can do.
But I'm just one guy, I'm going to give my money or not and that's pretty much the end of it.
I feel like fighting for your own ethical viewpoints on social media is admirable, but ultimately, you're just taking the mental health damages no matter which side of any issue you stand on.
I swear some folks have the mental fortitude of a superhuman when it comes to arguing endlessly online. They're just built different I guess, introvert me could never.
@@xavierarial24 You hit the nail on the head. You can waste your time arguing on social media about what’s ethical and what’s not, but the fact of the matter is that people have already made up their minds before they engaged with you. The people that are you to buy Howgarts Legacy are going to buy it no matter what you say, so it should be “to each his own”. There are plenty of people AND KIDS that just want to enjoy a great Harry Potter game without the political backlash of JK Rowling
It's not the gaming community it's r/gamingcirclejerk
The game looks great.
Well. Said.
Just turn off your phone and none of it really exists, just a small crowd of people screaming in the void. Anyway, I don’t really pay attention to any of that stuff really.
I don’t mind wether your videos are scripted or not, I think it depends on what the video is about! Just want to also say that I’m glad you’re back to making videos again, been watching you for years and you’ve always been one of my favourites. :)
Never been a HP fan but this game looks really good. Disregard the salty trains.
If being transphobic means buying your dream game about your childhood franchise. then I’m the most transphobic person ever.
If you want to buy a game then buy it, don’t let idiots on the internet tell you what you can or can’t spend your hard earned money on
I have no doubts that the vast majority of those screaming boycott never had any plans to buy the game to begin with.
Kotaku is honestly a really terrible news outlet anyways for a lot of other reasons
Fact: Cancel culture made me pre-order this game.
Cancel culture doesn't exist in the wqy you think. Stop swallowing all that propaganda and think for yourself. I'm going to love this game but I'm not as delusional as you.
@@kennymarket2428 Nothing you wrote changes my stated fact.
About a year ago I saw some trailer and decided that this game was not for me.
Videos responding to calls for cancellation exposed me to more recent game content and I decided to await the reviews first.
Checking the Steam discussion board to ask about Linux-compatibility, I saw that about one-fifth of the topics were from people calling for cancellation and that made me rage-buy the game.
I still don't even know if it will run on my OS.
I like point you made where people should probably be doing more “boycotting” against these companies. A lot of them just don’t make their product good anymore or don’t care, but have the nerve to charge $60-70.
exactlly I recently replayed alot of old bioware games and older games in general and i have notice how much better they are compering it what we get today.
Boycott Ubisoft
@@benjamincurtis1412 and EA and Activision
@@benjamincurtis1412 we don't need to do that. They are already going downhill
@@Lifetime10154 Ubisoft is circling the drain and losing money... Its easier to target them and push them out the door first.
At this point, I won't just buy the game, I will pump every single cent I have into it just to see these animals writhe and squeal in pain and agony, I don't care whatever label they put on me, I will see to their demise
Some of those people will secretly play the game😂
*most of these people
Is it a boycott if you were never going to anyway?
I was originally gonna wait for reviews before I bought the game, but this whole labeling ppl who buy the game a transphobe thing has made me pre order out of spite
Of all the things wrong that J.K. Rowling has done and said, this isn’t one of them.
She is entitled to her opinion and it’s no one else’s business.
Buying it couldn't care less about the transgender stuff. If people don't want to play it that's fine but vilify those who are looking forward to it.
These people can just buy the game used. They're a fan of Harry Potter, but don't like J.K. Rowling? Simple, just buy it used that way two people play it (the previous owner and yourself) but only one monetary contribution was made.
I for one do not understand the controversy behind her comments. I've read her supposedly controversial comments and they are sound and logical.
Even then, you're putting money in the loop so you're still contributing. And it's hilarious to see so many people trying to rationalize it by coming up with the idea of seperating art from the artist. However much you would like to try that, it's a world she came up with. Even if she wasn't involved with this story, it's set in her world. You can't seperate that. Either acknowledge that she might not be such a bad person and read her comment again yourself for a change or boycot her completely and not halfarsed.
I also don't see what's wrong with her comments. Some people that somehow try and seem as reasonable by supporting some of her comments like Matt Walsh or Jordan Peterson definitely have made plenty of outrageous comments. It's fun to see her either ignoring them or calling them out.
There's a difference between criticizing a game/developer because a game is bad or not ready, and criticizing them because you don't like the creator of the IP. To choose to let the devs, who put trans inclusive features into the game and who could use bonuses received from the game selling well to donate to trans supporting causes, suffer because you think there's a chance a billionaire will donate royalties to transphobic causes, is asinine. There is always some piece of shit involved in the making of the greatest pieces of art. The only difference here is that we know the details. It's also super weird that the people saying you should boycott it never mention that you can just buy it used instead. They act like Harry Potter is transphobic just because the creator is and it makes the trans community look cringe.
All the more reason to purchase the game!
traphone
@@user-wl9gw7xe2qwhat?
I hope you realize that you are just as cringe as the "boycotters".
After reading those tweets, I don't get why anyone would be offended. I've seen much worse things said on the internet than what JK tweeted. People are strange
There are so few games these days with good graphics and a good single player story. I have to get this game just for that.
Boycotters are clearly just a loud but very small group
actual boycoters aren't that loud. but they also are a very small group... sadly
@@Bloodhoven Not sadly
@@10293 definitely sadly.
@@Bloodhoven It's outstanding that there are so few of those boycotting snowflakes 💯💯💯💯💯💯
That article said JK is not directly involved in the game that doesn't mean that she's not Consulting on Lore and character information. It's her series of course they would want her input to some degree. Also just because you don't agree with her views doesn't mean she doesn't have the right to Express them. That's freedom of speech. The game is not about her beliefs it's about the Hogwarts universe
Robin I been watching you for a good while now since 2015ish I think I'm glad to see you back and uploading more good authentic gaming news videos again. Always love the break down of these topics :)
It's a buy for me I'm not getting involved in all the political nonsense I love harry potter and the world it had built its a defo buy can't wait to explore the world people have no right to be little others simply because they enjoy a product that has nothing to do with the actual person other then making the universe.
You lost me at Libertarian. No one with a shred of a brain cell would think no rules and no structure make a good society. Big L
I said "mostly". Idk why you'd assume those to be my thoughts. I'm not even here trying to start a political debate about society lol
So so true,phones and social media are changing everything for the worse,worst thing ever invented,I’ve deleted my Twitter and Facebook,and I feel sooooo much better for it too!!
Preach brother. My awakening was leaving Twitter 2 years ago.
Absolute bliss
I think there is a majority of people who think like JK Rowling. She just happens to be a celebrity and has much larger publicity. The ideology is quite questionable in first place. Woke is just a very loud voice. The majority just isn't choosing to be louder. Personally I don't hate people or individuals, just ideology that forces their views on others. Games, art, creativity and entertainment should be more neutral instead of catering to politics and ideology. Let the artist make the art, rather to try to force and restrict the art and artists by politics and ideology.
Chiming in as a nonbinary person here. I am exactly the type of person that JKR has tweeted against, I was AFAB....and you know what I just dont care. At the end of the day JKR has no idea who I am, she never will know who I am, I'm going to play the game and enjoy it because that's what I want to do. I despise her views but I can separate her views from the game. If someone wants to boycott it that's fine and I totally get it but whatever man, it's just a game at the end of the day. There's far worse things out in the world to worry about. Those same people tweeting out against JKR are doing it on their iPhones made by literal child and slave labor. The disconnect is just so extreme.
Found you from asmongold and loved your video and take. Enjoying your content and keep up the good work
Solid video! Love the non-biased, and logical approach to the topic. It’s rare to see games media coverage that isn’t so reactionary and partisan.
It’s simple. Respect differing opinions, and if you can’t do that, remove yourself from the discourse.
I'm deeply transphobic 🙏
Hi Robin, wondering if you are going to finish your Uncharted retrospectives and do Drake’s Deception?
It’s almost like JK Rowling was RIGHT or something…
It's a sad state of affairs if we got this far that we cannot just purchase a product we are interested in without feeling the social pressure to apologize in advance to a toxic mob lying in wait to jump at us with their torches and pitchforks.
Why apologize? Screw those freaks.
All the people saying they'll boycott the game weren't going to buy it anyway. They'll be too busy sitting on Twitter crying all day.
I’m gonna buy 2 copies just to pass off the crying liberals on Twitter. I don’t even plan to play them
Already pre ordered it twice. I couldnt care less about the opinions of others. I got one life im going to have fun while im here and playing as a wizard is fun.
If anyone truely thinks that not buying this game is going to impact J.K. Rowling's finances, after the amount of books, movies and infinite merchandise across the globe, they're very mistaken.
Everyone else in the production would be affected and that'd damage the wrong thing.
Also, going around harrassing people who buy this game is only ever going to increase the amount of hate in the world, not reduce it...
So if any of those people who think this way read this; Please consider your battles more carefully if truely aiming to do good. There is no scenario in this entire thing where something is somehow gained or improved. There's no good to be achieved from making a campaign of hate that touches so many more people than just the one you dislike (Rowling) and it will NOT advance anything in the trans community either, as it's very likely to show up as one more rather misguided outrage that will likely increase the prejudiced disdain for whoever is prone to judge entire groups at a time in that prejudiced way.
(I wish we could finally start to try and learn to treat all people as individuals and not punish all similar people for the actions of the worst in their "peer group"... but I guess that's a bit too much to ask for from humanity.)
Oh and I don't know if I'll buy it. If the reviews say good things, yeah, I likely will. I always wanna wait games to actually release these days before making my decision. (I've been a happier gamer ever since I decided to have the patience to wait for all the info I could ever need after release. Can wholeheartedly recommend to everyone...)
Im a TERF and happy
Just watched Asmongold respond to your video and I liked your take. Thought it would be fair to give you a like and comment.
If it makes the trans community mad, I’ll happily purchase an extra copy. :)
Already preordered and haters will have to endure 😚
I completely agree with you.
J.k. Rowling's is the best person and everybody needs to just be quiet
CP2077 got me with the hype...Gonna wait for reviews to decide if I buy or not.
Meanwhile, JK Rowling sipping wine and preloading Hogwarts's Legacy....😂
I can only hope that twitter will shit itself when the game is gonna bring lot of money.
people are allowed to have an opinion, nobody is required to agree. Those who understand this tend to think thier own thoughts, not someone elses.
THIS IS 100%! I keep seeing these manipulative articles that keep bringing up the literally NONEXISTENT boycott. Like since when does a few people who don't even game saying they aren't gonna buy a game on the internet count as a boycott?
Awesome video with great talking points. The internet has given us so much and yet "outrage" seems to be the most represented. I agree that talking with your wallet is the most effective way for individuals to make an impact.
The fact that their willing to show us so much of the game shows me that they’re proud and want to show it off. Most games now it’s like they don’t wanna show you anything because they know how bad the product is
Excellent points and well spoken. Subbed.
They can boycott these nuts lol I just paid off my pre order
The people who admit to pre ordering this game out of political spite are hilarious. Of all the reasons to break the no preorder protocol. "I'm so punk rock for shelling out $70 bucks to Warner specifically before I know they're giving me a good product, to stick it to lefties I guess."
I'm holding off to see if the game is Anthem levels of broken on release. Warner ain't exactly known for publishing consistent quality. I'll probably wait until its free on ps plus in 3-5 years because those bullet-sponge (or wand sponge) enemies ain't it.
First time watcher. Just subbed.
Keep it up. 👍
I like this guy, he's based. People these days see unable to separate the art from the artist...
I'm a fan of H.P. Lovecraft's works, so I've learned to do that for awhile.
I dread the day good workers and companies aren't compensated for making a quality product, just because people don't like someone involved.
I really wonder whether Rowling does actually earn royalties for every sale of the game or not. It's entirely possible that she simply sold the videogame-rights to WB Games, and now it's theirs to use within this project. That way it wouldn't even really make a difference if people buy the game or not because she would've been paid up front for the rights.
It all depends on the actual contract between Rowling and WB/Portkey Games and unless we see that or if anyone involves actually states that she earns money from this yes or no, then it's no use speculating I think.
These boycotters need to touch grass.
politics in games ruined alot of gaming for me these past few years i only play the older good games from 2000 to 2017
Huh? There's plenty of old games with politics in them.
@@theobell2002 bro back then you did not have games with an agenda instead of it just being fun
Pretty much agree on every level. I do believe that some of JK Rowling's views on trans people are pretty bad, but making the leap and saying that anyone who buys the game is a transphobe is dumb. If you want to boycott the game, that's fine, more power to you, but pushing that on others by labelling them "transphobes" is the most virtue signaling thing you could do.
By that logic, we should probably blame all of these people for supporting child labor since most of them probably own Iphone products.
I think it’s stupid too. Basically if a 8 year old kid gets this game he is a transphobic even though he doesn’t even know about sex yet! Twitter is so trash
@@haydeng3541 Agree absolutely. She merely questioned the wisdom of allowing biological males in female bathrooms and opposes forced gender reassignment surgery and also believes that biological females have the right to exist. Rowling is an annoying 2nd wave/Liberal feminist but she ain't a transphobe. Far from it.
No she only tells the truth
And based on scientific fact
Not delusion
Please enlighten me to her bad takes.
- Wanting women to have their own sports category, toilets, changingrooms and prisons is still common sense and just pro women, not anti trans. There is plenty of proof that men are more of danger to women due to physical differences than the other way round, so to have their own space that they fought for for ages seems fair to me. Same goes for sport. Every other week there seems to be a "women" that wins a prize even though as a men they were mediocre. That's unfair, clearly.
- Also care women that were abused by men should have an option of only recieving care from actual women, that's still common sense.
- Having men cosplaying as oversexualized versions of women do performances for kids is wrong and I'm not a prude or religous in any way.
- Defending lesbians being called transphobic for not wanting a "women's" penis in her mouth is fine in my book.
- Puberty blockers are irreversible, simple as that. Doesn't matter how hard some trans people scream on Twitter that they would've loved to have some as kids.
I think this is enough so I'll leave it at this. I have yet to see an actual bad take from JKR that's not either just a deliberately misunderstood comment showing of the illiteracy or malice of the poster or something that 99% of people agree with, but is somehow bad on Twitter in the mind of nutjobs.
@@woutervanr Agree entirely. I am not a fan of 2nd wave feminist and general lefty JK Rowling but there's nothing she has ever said that comes even close to being transphobic. She is simply fiercely pro-woman (a classic 2nd wave feminist).
If buying a product from a disagreeable source makes the consumer a hypocrite (or lumped into the same category as said disagreeable source), then we're ALL hypocrites for the exact same reason, because of corporate ownerships. To simplify: Say there are 50 companies, all owned by one of 5 corporations. Say that's 10 companies a piece. However, they don't all advertise who owns them outright. All 5 are going to take at least one disagreeable stance. Are you going to boycott all 50 companies? Who do you buy from, now? I hope I've made my point clear enough.
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It just doesn't matter. boycott's just tend to have the opposite effect. They're ultimately free advertising for the game and inevitably more people want to buy the product because they otherwise wouldn't have heard of it. Boycott of Chik-Fil-A just led to more sales. Boycott of the movies Farehnheit 9/11 and Dogma just led to more ticket sales. It's not a left or right thing.
That said though, ever since I started looking into this drama, every video about this topic has comments from people who are openly anti-trans and I can't help but wonder if these are the same people who wanted to ban Harry Potter books back in the day because it "promoted witchcraft" and now they support HP. Funny how that works.
It sucks cause at the time this was fairly true. However, things did escalate quite a bit and I think this situation is what started it. People started to get creative with how they harass others. Doxxing, real threats, mailing things to people's houses, and a constant barrage of harassment until people left the internet completely. The ideal situation shouldn't be just don't engage with the internet at all cause it's just not a realistic ask. Especially if you make your living online.
The saddest example is probably Jocat
I disagree with 99% of what celebrities have to say and I have to put up with it on a daily basis. They can survive one game.
The drama isn't real, but not for the reasons you think. It's just a humongous pile of bait. The sub's called gamingcirclejerk, for God's sake. It's a bunch of trolls having fun. And everyone's falling for it.
I'm not buying the game because of J.K. Rowling though. I'm buying it because it was made by people who genuinely care about the Wizarding World and its community. J.K. Rowling had nothing to do with the development of this game.
to sum up this whole drama it was basically "you should boycott the game, it's about putting down a slave rebellion... oh me? no I'm not boycotting it but you should" so no one actually did it, I'm personally not buying the game because 1, I'm not the slightest bit interested in Harry potter, I find the world boring and the magic shallow, and 2, I disagree with the message of the game and it's creators. The only way boycotting actually works is if everyone does it, and barely anyone is willing to give up the thing they want just because the creator is bad
Trying to force others to NOT buy and cancelling them and calling them transphobes them into what they can or not do? Yeah you're right. It's why I preordered twice already.
I said something I still believe on another video: JK Rowling is STILL going to make money off this, even if NO ONE buys it, by the game people if not for players buying it. And if I don't get it, other people will, so what's the point? This game has more preorders than any other game in recent history, to my knowledge.
I was told I was a transphobe and cared more about my entertainment than I did about trans people's experiences, but I said in response "I have trans friends, but I don't know you, so I don't need to care about your experiences."
TL;DR: Playing a game about Wizards isn't going to make me parrot everything Rowling says.
The Bald man brought me here. Subbed.
I miss the days of people separating a person's views from their larger works. Just cause you like harry potter does not mean you agree with JK Rowling's political views. I like Kanye West's music. Does that mean I agree with every thing he says and does? Hell no. To be honest he has said some pretty dumb and crazy things throughout his career. That is how you separate the person from their work. You simply have to know how say yeah I like so and so and such and such but I do not agree with x y and z.
JKR is based! Much love.
I love the Harry Potter universe but have never cared for J.K and don't waste my energy following her antics. I'm here to support the devs and my hunger for more Hogwarts magic. That's all. The end. Move on now, we aren't all part of some agenda.
You never know. If you buy a video game from a video game company, there might be a guy or girl in the company that absolutely hates dogs. And as a massive supporter of dogs, I cannot buy or enjoy any video games ever, because I could possibly be supporting an individual that doesn't agree with my views on the world. And that would make me a dog hater and utterly destroy my soul
Going to get it because I love HP, but I can see the concern from some.
Isn't this akin to calling a fanfic writer transphobic because they are using Rowling's universe?
If so what is to stop others from saying anyone who still loves and consumes Harry Potter is phobic?
BRO! I used to watch back when you went by Robinoyo in the Uncharted 3 days.
I remember looking back a couple years ago and being like "whatever happened to him" and being sad to see you rarely uploaded.
Seeing that you're back in action has made me super happy and plan to be a regular viewer once again :)
"I have experienced people shutting me down and refusing to hear my opinion but if you say buying this game is transphobic I'm going to shut you down and refuse to hear your opinion"
I get what you are saying and I somewhat agree, but turning off the phone is not a solution in my opinion.
Saying that 'this doesn't concern me' is like putting your head in the sand and ignore the problem.
I don't mean we should take one side from 2 arguments because life is not black and white.
It is as you said that we should vote with our wallets, and that is what you should talk about instead of ignoring the drama.
We should turn the drama into an informative debate and not dismiss it altogether.
If you like the game but don't agree with the person behind it there are other solutions beside buying or not.
I just think and ignoring the drama won't make it go away.
Thankfully Harry Potter doesn’t interest me at all so I’ll only get it if it reviews like crazy and everyone loves it lol
Don't care, playing it anyway.
I am not getting it. I am tired of open world games. Am I glad it upsets games journalists? Yes. Would I buy a game I have not interest in playing just because it upsets them? No.
I have no firm option on the transgender debate but I do know that JK Rowling is a bully who threatens people often with her ” small island of lawyers” if you dare challenge her on a number of topics,
I personally think Harry Potter is trash but I can see it’s appeal to young children but as a game fan the game looks interesting. On that basis I may buy it or I may not. I’m not too concerned about the drop in the ocean effect on Rawlings already ludicrous finances, my refusal to play it would make. If the game gets good gameplay reviews then I’ll try it out. On sale of course.
I think any boycott would have minimal effect.
From what i took from the first minute, people should get off social media and spend more time in the real world
I like that you pronounced JK's last name correctly. Americans always say "Rauling" and it sounds stupid lol
My dude I already bought the game I love the herry potter universe and honestly the creaters opinions are her own why do we have to hate her for them just move on I fir one will be exploring my Wizarding world
Tbh there hasn’t gone enough time to know how social media is going to affect society we still so early on history wise
Me: *Buying a game for escapism after work*
Woke: "You Transphobe"