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[VivaR3V]

Its more than that, from what i read from old articles/interviews its actually a very curious scenario.

The developers, while working on Hogwarts Legacy were absolutely shocked by JK Rowling's highly offensive and problematic Tweets, a few of them being woke or trans themselves entered a little panic mode and began pushing the team to add more inclusive/progressive features(probably amounts to character creation and a few lines) , as in protesting against JKRowling hideous views, and even publicly rejecting her involvment in the project.

All sounds fair so far, things should have calmed down, except we already seen, many times their 'audience' doesn't seem to care about any explanation or efforts, since the tixic mob never stopped protesting in hopes of canceling their game, as if they want blood more than anything else

It sounds crazy because it is, sometimes it appears companies are lost when dealing with social media

You can say her comments were “problematic” to the developers, but “offensive” is subjective.

I think we need to get away from automatically assuming that those who work for any given company, big or small, hold personal views that do not align with JK. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with holding views that what most define as being a “woman” needs protecting. This is gaslighting in itself to assume her views are not widely held.

Companies are not living breathing people, just bricks and mortar, making money. They speak in the direction of money, nothing more.

Does Coca-Cola give a damn about pushing its sugar drink on Mexicans over the years, to the point there’s an epidemic or unhealthy consumption there?

 

[Kilau]

Its more than that, from what i read from old articles/interviews its actually a very curious scenario.

The developers, while working on Hogwarts Legacy were absolutely shocked by JK Rowling's highly offensive and problematic Tweets, a few of them being woke or trans themselves entered a little panic mode and began pushing the team to add more inclusive/progressive features(probably amounts to character creation and a few lines) , as in protesting against JKRowling hideous views, and even publicly rejecting her involvment in the project.

All sounds fair so far, things should have calmed down, except we already seen, many times their 'audience' doesn't seem to care about any explanation or efforts, since the tixic mob never stopped protesting in hopes of canceling their game, as if they want blood more than anything else

It sounds crazy because it is, sometimes it appears companies are lost when dealing with social media

This is why buying something you aren't interested in just to anger someone else is so stupid and shortsighted. As is blanket banning something without taking the whole situation into consideration.

 

[semiconscious]

thats the weird part, the game is explicitly pro trans, she is clearly not involved with it

So goes to show if you try to appease wokies they will not care still

yep. one might as well try appeasing...

 

[DeepEnigma]

This is how you deal with the screeeeechers.

 

[shaddam]

I will miss this cringe on twitter when the game release

 

[Fishels]

average era user

You’re mistaken. They are crying from relief, the average ERA user is 100% buying this game.

The mods banning all discussion is proof they know most of their own pathetic user base doesn’t fucking care

 

[Unknown Soldier]

So after watching multiple videos of actual combat, I'm still not sure how this is going to go. It reminds me too much of OG Assassin's Creed where enemies wait their turn to attack you one at a time or something. Is there ever going to be an open world game which has actual good combat besides Elden Ring?

 

[lh032]

You’re mistaken. They are crying from relief, the average ERA user is 100% buying this game.

The mods banning all discussion is proof they know most of their own pathetic user base doesn’t fucking care

lmao this 100%

Most era user just "kept quiet" regarding hogwarts on resetera.

 

[vodka-bull]

I didn‘t want to buy any new games in 2023 and instead clean up my backlog. But after a few videos, and previews I think I‘m gonna buy it, game just looks very good.

 

[Facism]

I'm kinda curious...as a transsex woman, if I buy this Harry Potter game, will I instantly perish the moment I boot up said forbidden fruit?

This would make you too powerful

 

[Rippa]

 

[belmarduk]

You’re mistaken. They are crying from relief, the average ERA user is 100% buying this game.

The mods banning all discussion is proof they know most of their own pathetic user base doesn’t fucking care

One of the biggest negative nancys about Cyberpunk 2077 not only played the game but posted about it all the time there. You can bet she's buying Hogwarts Legacy on day one!

 

[CGNoire]

Bruh, she's Uber wealthy and has basically chosen as the remainder of her life's work to go on a crusade that only right wing media boomer smoothbrains and embarrassing Twitter super wokes really care about. This is not an issue that affects 99% of peoples' lives in a meaningful way.

Fucking Nonsense . Purposefull destruction of vocabulary we depend on as a species to communicate ideas in a manner thats undersrood bye the majority all for political gain or in the case of actual trans people as a way of avoiding reality is disgusting and highly destructive to our ability to gain common ground. Everyone should be speaking out against it.

 

[Jinjo]

Even my total non-gamer wife is interested in the game as she is a complete harry potter fan. So even if I am not I bought it as I take any chance I can to experience my favourite hobby together with my significant other.

You’re mistaken. They are crying from relief, the average ERA user is 100% buying this game.

The mods banning all discussion is proof they know most of their own pathetic user base doesn’t fucking care

Can guarantee you the average era user just isn't mentioning buying it and it's only the justice warriors who voice their agreement with the policy and rejection of the game. It's clear that saying otherwise just gets you ban anyway, when all most people are on a gaming forum is for gaming talk, so why bother engaging.

 

[VivaR3V]

Even my total non-gamer wife is interested in the game as she is a complete harry potter fan. So even if I am not I bought it as I take any chance I can to experience my favourite hobby together with my significant other.



Can guarantee you the average era user just isn't mentioning buying it and it's only the justice warriors who voice their agreement with the policy and rejection of the game. It's clear that saying otherwise just gets you ban anyway, when all most people are on a gaming forum is for gaming talk, so why bother engaging.

Exactly. The gaslighting over at Era should be concerning for all those who feel their voices are being erased for someone else’s view. It’s one thing getting a ban on your own voice, you can go elsewhere, but it’s a collective totalitarian culling of everyone’s voices. You can even see those who feel forced to qualify their opening sentences with supporting the hatred towards JK, so they do not get banned for whatever they say after that.

It’s all the more worrying that you have gaming journalists, digital foundry guys, etc, who are happy to be part of this. It’s obviously going to sway their work because of their association there, their credibility with the unseen Era mods. Forums are dying out, this is a fact, and the last thing you should be doing is narrowing down on what can be discussed in genre you are based in.

Neo should be making a big noise about this, because there’s going to be a lot of bad feeling brewing over at Era if Hogwarts takes off and they can’t even discuss it. It’s turning into a Waco style cult.

 

[Freeza93]

Exactly. The gaslighting over at Era should be concerning for all those who feel their voices are being erased for someone else’s view. It’s one thing getting a ban on your own voice, you can go elsewhere, but it’s a collective totalitarian culling of everyone’s voices. You can even see those who feel forced to qualify their opening sentences with supporting the hatred towards JK, so they do not get banned for whatever they say after that.

It’s all the more worrying that you have gaming journalists, digital foundry guys, etc, who are happy to be part of this. It’s obviously going to sway their work because of their association there, their credibility with the unseen Era mods. Forums are dying out, this is a fact, and the last thing you should be doing is narrowing down on what can be discussed in genre you are based in.

Neo should be making a big noise about this, because there’s going to be a lot of bad feeling brewing over at Era if Hogwarts takes off and they can’t even discuss it. It’s turning into a Waco style cult.

Its a communist forum. What the government dont want you to talk about you cant or face punishment. China is the same. I was born in hungary 4 years after the end of communism there. So i know from parents how it is and especially grandparents(rip). My mom had to work on the fields before school and after it. As poor people in hungary you lived like in the 1800 no joke. 1 toilet outhouse(was nice in winter i still remember it as a kid. No money barely enough food for the family. These bitches would not survive that 2 days if you throw them in.

The american gen z want communism. Reddit, era, if you are not with them you are against them dont matter if you are right or not even if you can prove it by science thats where it gets dangerous. Most of them will grow out of it tho. Thats why i say fuck them in the face. But the pendulum starts to swing back slowly.

 

[nush]

so they do not get banned for whatever they say after that.

They still get banned for wrongthink. It's been well documented behaiour from the mods there.

 

[Ronin_7]

Its a communist forum. What the government dont want you to talk about you cant or face punishment. China is the same. I was born in hungary 4 years after the end of communism there. So i know from parents how it is and especially grandparents(rip). My mom had to work on the fields before school and after it. As poor people in hungary you lived like in the 1800 no joke. 1 toilet outhouse(was nice in winter i still remember it as a kid. No money barely enough food for the family. These bitches would not survive that 2 days if you throw them in.

The american gen z want communism. Reddit, era, if you are not with them you are against them dont matter if you are right or not even if you can prove it by science thats where it gets dangerous. Most of them will grow out of it tho. Thats why i say fuck them in the face. But the pendulum starts to swing back slowly.

It's a forum for the extreme Left, nothing good about extremes.

 

[Freeza93]

It's a forum for the extreme Left, nothing good about extremes.

No thats not even political anymore its just sick. Its like a forum a lunatic asylum would have if the patients would have made it

 

[VivaR3V]

The american gen z want communism. Reddit, era, if you are not with them you are against them dont matter if you are right or not even if you can prove it by science thats where it gets dangerous. Most of them will grow out of it tho. Thats why i say fuck them in the face. But the pendulum starts to swing back slowly.

Absolutely.

You just know that there is going to be an influx of secret Era folks heading here and elsewhere for their HP fix. It’s going to be killing them that they know they can’t comment or show any excitement in case they are “found out“ and reported. It’s some of the weirdest nonsense going on with regards to wanting to enjoy or chat about a game. To think you will be banned if it gets back there, shunned. I mean, they’ve already taken your voice away, what else can they do? It’s not like you have a voice there to begin with there.

You are right that it just takes time for them to grow out of it..

 

[VivaR3V]

No thats not even political anymore its just sick. Its like a forum a lunatic asylum would have if the patients would have made it

It’s worrying to the point that there’s already a lot of mental health issues in the gaming scene and Era is going to fk up a lot of minds with the doctrines being pushed on them. I am more concerned about the so called journalists that just want to be seen in a good light, rather than focus on just talking about the game.

 

[vodka-bull]

Just read into the JKRowling boycott Resetera debacle, it seems like people are quite content if they've no other worries in their life. Some people really do have too much time.

But now, even though I would've bought it anyway, I buy it also with a political agenda! For them haters!

 

[Freeza93]

It’s worrying to the point that there’s already a lot of mental health issues in the gaming scene and Era is going to fk up a lot of minds with the doctrines being pushed on them. I am more concerned about the so called journalists that just want to be seen in a good light, rather than focus on just talking about the game.

We should stop. I think it breaks the rules here. But i agree.

When hogwarts releases everybody will be talking about it for a long time. It will be fun.

 

[Elysion]

I find it remarkable how the trans stuff has seemingly completely taken over communities and fandoms that used to be made up mostly of nerds and geeks. Not just game development, but the tech sector in general. It would probably be pretty hard to find a tech company these days that doesn’t have a bunch of transvestites working for it, no matter if the company is large or small. That’s true even for the darker parts of the tech world; afaik, the most prolific person in the pirating world who‘s cracking games these days is a transvestite. I wouldn’t be surprised if hacker groups like ‚Anonymous‘ are made up of such people as well.

It really seems like there‘s a link between autism and the phenomenon of ‚gender dysphoria‘, because young men who used to be just weird nerds that had trouble fitting in, are going ‚trans’ nowadays, and thus find a community of likeminded individuals to more easily fit in. I think for a lot of these people this is a kind of permanent larp, without which they‘d feel kinda lost.

So I have no doubt that there are a bunch of transvestites working on Hogwarts Legacy as well.

Edit: This is mostly about male transvestites. The phenomenon of girls claiming to be ‚trans‘ or ‚non-binary‘ is very different, and has different causes imo.

 

[dave_d]

Absolutely.

You just know that there is going to be an influx of secret Era folks heading here and elsewhere for their HP fix.

Well then someone should at least do a sticky for them introducing them to the site with some helpful hints. I mean for example warn them not to use the same user name here because Era mods might notice it and ban them for visiting "site non grata"

 

[vodka-bull]

Even IGN mentioned the JK discussion in their final preview. Since when does anybody care about any behind the scenes political agenda in games? Sometimes I wish we'd go back in time to the point where the internet was for universities only.

 

[Hoho for breakfast]

If this game is good it will be the best selling game this year and maybe the best selling game of the last few years. It will be massive. CoD/ GTA type numbers I imagine. I'm pretty hyped for it but only hesitant because I don't know yet if it's actually good or not.

As for Rowling, I'm extremely far left and I find the resetera ban on discussion idiotic. Aside from just being dumb, it's helping to generate controversy so much so that people will buy the game just because of it. Just to spite them. It's completely counterproductive. Then you have the complete hypocrites who will tell you to boycott the game and still go buy it themselves. A lot of them only say they wont buy it because they want to fit in on Resetera and want some twisted sense of moral superiority to feel better about their sad lives, but they will secretly buy and play the shit out of it. It's going to sell millions upon millions probably even if it's a shit game. If it's actually really good? Look out.

 

[Hot5pur]

Fingers crossed the game will be good, so I may actually play it, despite not ever finding Harry Potter to be compelling, neither across the books or movies.
But I'll wiggle my little wand, if youknowwhatImean, for a good time.
One thing that gives me pause is the developer, that pedigree is not very hot and is concerning.

 

[Hoho for breakfast]

Fingers crossed the game will be good, so I may actually play it, despite not ever finding Harry Potter to be compelling, neither across the books or movies.
But I'll wiggle my little wand, if youknowwhatImean, for a good time.
One thing that gives me pause is the developer, that pedigree is not very hot and is concerning.

That's how I know the game is going to be huge (if it's good). I also don't even like Harry Potter and think the movies are boring garbage but I'm still excited for the game. Also never read any of the books. No interest.

 

[grfunkulus]

Fucking Nonsense . Purposefull destruction of vocabulary we depend on as a species to communicate ideas in a manner thats undersrood bye the majority all for political gain or in the case of actual trans people as a way of avoiding reality is disgusting and highly destructive to our ability to gain common ground. Everyone should be speaking out against it.

Yeah, you're really doing God's work Methinks you were first in line for creepy suspected pedo Matt Walsh's "documentary" What is a Woman?

 

[phant0m]

As for Rowling, I'm extremely far left and I find the resetera ban on discussion idiotic. Aside from just being dumb, it's helping to generate controversy so much so that people will buy the game just because of it. Just to spite them. It's completely counterproductive.

They love to roll out The Streisand EffectTM when people they don't like or celebrities try to get something "removed" from the internet.

But in this case? I fully expect a full-blown fucking shockedpikachu.jpg when the Feb NPD #s are out.

 

[Unrivaled18]

Wow, I was banned on the other site so I found this one.

All I said was that my transgender cousin is buying the game (which is true!) and that people support companies who employ child labour etc so I was asking where you draw the line on what to boycott.

Seriously, that place is messed up. What the hell.

I am fully supporting buying this game now, because it looks amazing and the moderators on there are absolutely NUTS. In fact I am going to buy 2 copies now just to add to their sales.

 

[Pegasus Actual]

Shit all you guys buying copies just to stick it to the man. Well... I'll take a Steam code... ya know... if someone is buying extras. Just throwing it out there.

 

[01011001]

Shit all you guys buying copies just to stick it to the man. Well... I'll take a Steam code... ya know... if someone is buying extras. Just throwing it out there.

it sure would be awful if someone gave me a key... since everyone knows how much I hate JK Rowling

 

[kurisu_1974]

- sorry this was already posted -

 

[Fishels]

lmao this 100%

Most era user just "kept quiet" regarding hogwarts on resetera.

Yep. Most regulars would have been in the official topic launch day. Mods can’t ban all 70% of the site lol

 

[TheRyzzl]

Yep. Most regulars would have been in the official topic launch day. Mods can’t ban all 70% of the site lol

Yup, realistically they would of had some whack yadda yadda disclaimer you should feel bad about playing this or whatever. First few pages would get shitted up by the usual suspects. Then by the end of the day it would be on page 70 with the normal users gushing over the game. They had no choice but to ban it or else it would of been another Cyberpunk shit show.

 

[Freeman76]

Why are you confused? They have consistently done this sort of thing and acquiesced to an angry mob. That's what Resetera is. Keeping these groups happy is far more important than serving it supposed function as a gaming forum.

JK Rowling didn't have anything to do with the game and, as far as any of us know, there is nothing against transgender people in the game.

Not only this, but Rowling isnt even transphobic in the first place.

Unless you are classed as transphobic if you say men dont have a womb that is.

Even the idea of it is INSANE, the fact so many people have got an issue with what she said makes me genuinely worried about the human race lol

 

[Lasha]

Not only this, but Rowling isnt even transphobic in the first place.

Unless you are classed as transphobic if you say men dont have a womb that is.

Even the idea of it is INSANE, the fact so many people have got an issue with what she said makes me genuinely worried about the human race lol

The most fascinating tactic of modern progressives is their ability to define new words then somehow get everybody to go along with them. They have a label for every permutation of bad thought that is enforced at a societal level. I blame Harry Potter. Harry Potter was so good that it got an entire generation to stop reading more challenging texts and thus become more susceptible to information warfare.

 

[Moriah20]

Most resetera users will buy it too, dont worry. Including the transpeople that advocated for banning the discussion on it. The same happened with cyberpunk. The main person who spoke up against CP77 on the forum telling people to not buy it, Kyujii or whatever was literally one of the mot active posters in the OT, lol

 

[TheRyzzl]

Most resetera users will buy it too, dont worry. Including the transpeople that advocated for banning the discussion on it. The same happened with cyberpunk. The main person who spoke up against CP77 on the forum telling people to not buy it, Kyujii or whatever was literally one of the mot active posters in the OT, lol

They also had someone buy it for them so they could play it for "research" lmao.

 

[Hexxus]

All I can say is lmfao and

 

[bender]

Most resetera users will buy it too, dont worry. Including the transpeople that advocated for banning the discussion on it. The same happened with cyberpunk. The main person who spoke up against CP77 on the forum telling people to not buy it, Kyujii or whatever was literally one of the mot active posters in the OT, lol

 

[MatrixReloaded101]

The hype for this game is crazy, it’s either going to be one of the most successful launches in some time or one of the biggest disappointments.

 

[UnNamed]

 

[GymWolf]

It's gonna be absolutely hilarious when release day arrive and at least 50% of the resetters are gonna pretend like they are not playing the game while everyone knows what is really happening...

Awkward times ahead for the purples...

 

[chromhound]

ERAAA right now

 

[Nankatsu]

So a question: I bought the normal edition of the game, not the deluxe one.

Is the avada kedavra spell dlc exclusive? From what I read I think you can still access it via normal game, it just comes with an insane cooldown for usage.

 

[Valedix]

So a question: I bought the normal edition of the game, not the deluxe one.

Is the avada kedavra spell dlc exclusive? From what I read I think you can still access it via normal game, it just comes with an insane cooldown for usage.

Avada isn't exclusive to DLC or the deluxe edition, you can still unlock in normal game.

 

[Dazraell]

So a question: I bought the normal edition of the game, not the deluxe one.

Is the avada kedavra spell dlc exclusive? From what I read I think you can still access it via normal game, it just comes with an insane cooldown for usage.

I believe the exclusive content in Deluxe Editions only has a new arena, cosmetic set themed around dark magic, and some mounts. And well, obviously access a few days earlier. So I'm pretty sure they haven't limited any spells and hidden them under paywall