Calls to Boycott Hogwarts Legacyįor the past several months, the LGBT people have been raising thier voice that purchasing this game would be unsupportive of them. While the controversial author is not directly involved in this project, the players have been facing a moral dilemma as buying it would be seen as supporting JK Rowling, whose views are not consistent with the LGBT petitioners. The game was announced around the time when the author faced severe backlash for her alleged transphobic views. Hundreds of petitions have been circulating on the internet to boycott the title to prevent any profits for Rowling. When someone as hugely rich and famous as Rowling uses their platform like this, it creates waves all over the world, so I don’t think we’re at the end of it.The upcoming game set in the Harry Potter world, Hogwarts Legacy, has been facing criticism from the Transgender community for its association with JK Rowling. There are bookstores now declining to stock Troubled Blood in order to create a “safer space” for customers, and possibly taking aim at the Harry Potter series next. So it’s tricky.Įvery time I write about this I hope it’s the last time, and it never seems to be. Rowling may not have had a hand in making Hogwarts Legacy, but she will profit from it, either directly or because it will help keep the Wizarding World popular. Rowling.īut of course, if you’re concerned about Rowling choosing to use her vast influence to demonize a marginalized community, it’s probably not as simple as saying it’s okay to play the game because she’s not involved. Rowling is not directly involved in the creation of the game, however, her extraordinary body of writing is the foundation of all projects in the Wizarding World. If you do care, WB Games confirmed in an FAQ about Hogwarts Legacy that, at the least, Rowling it’s directly involved with it: Now, if you don’t care about this stuff and just want to play the game, then that’s probably what you’ll do. It’s touchy right now, to the point where the develops who made the game have admitted to being “uncomfortable” with everything that’s going on.
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If you’re just joining us on this train to hell, things started a few months ago with some questionable tweets, graduated to a full-on fear-mongering manifesto, and flared up again when it was discovered that Rowling’s latest book Troubled Blood, which she writes under a male pseudonym, is about a cis male serial killer who dresses up like a woman to kill cis women, which peddles in some backwards tropes roundly disproven. Rowling being seemingly unable to stop laying out her regressive opinions about trans people. The problem is that anything involving Harry Potter is a little radioactive right now, thanks to creator J.K. Frankly, it looks really great: I’m sure there are tons of Harry Potter fans out there who would love to visit this beautiful, highly interactive version of Hogwarts and go on an adventure.
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The game will be available on PlayStation and Xbox consoles, plus PC, in 2021.
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