The controversy surrounding this game is hilarious.

[pacman8030]

I don't give a crap about J.K. Rowling or what she believes in. I just want to play a video game. It's almost like being called a homophobe because you ate a chicken sandwich from Chick-Fil-A.

[Fear2288]

The thing I find funny is that I would bet most if not all SJWs who support trashing and boycotting this game bc of Rowling’s comments probably watch movies/TV shows, play other games, listen to music, appreciate art, read books, etc that were created by people with racist, homophobic, sexist, classicist, etc views.

But they’ll probably tell you that you can’t judge something based on the personal views of the creator, or make the excuse that so-and-sos beliefs were a product of the time/culture and we can’t pass judgement on it/them from our “modern perspective”.

[St. Isabelle of Fuhrman]

Publicado originalmente por pacman8030:

I don't give a crap about J.K. Rowling or what she believes in. I just want to play a video game. It's almost like being called a homophobe because you ate a chicken sandwich from Chick-Fil-A.

Publicado originalmente por Fear2288:

The thing I find funny is that I would bet most if not all SJWs who support trashing and boycotting this game bc of Rowling’s comments probably watch movies/TV shows, play other games, listen to music, appreciate art, read books, etc that were created by people with racist, homophobic, sexist, classicist, etc views.

But they’ll probably tell you that you can’t judge something based on the personal views of the creator, or make the excuse that so-and-sos beliefs were a product of the time/culture and we can’t pass judgement on it/them from our “modern perspective”.

Its hilarious because the people that wanted it boycotted inadvertently contributed to the sales figure by drawing attention to it. Streisand effect at its finest.

Its also hilarious because some of the (futile) tactics the boycotters employed included revealing spoilers and witch-hunting streamers that were playing the early access build for the game.

On the flipside you get someone every now and then coming onto the discussion page to complain about that one token TG character in the game as well as how racially varied the characters are in a fantasy game where you fly on brooms and breed unicorns. Whether or not they really hold those opinions matter little in the grand scheme of farming awards and, as you'd expect, garner more attention to the game.

Welcome to the internet, folks.

[Postmates Malone]

Madam Kogawa's backstory is a lazy Japanese stereotype. Secretly taking the blame for someone else's mistake because of "honor" and living with said secret for the rest of your life is such a samurai/yakuza trope I'm surprised nobody at Avalanche caught this before the game shipped. Also, her accent is very clearly not Japanese. It's not British either, so its pretty obvious they gave her a generic "asian" accent and ran with it. Probably not worth hiring a VA who could do a Japanese accent, but why bother with making the character Japanese if that was the case?

I only mention it because a lot of the dialogue about this game is over how diverse the game is, and just because they did okay in other places doesn't mean they didn't mess up here. I'd rather they not bother with deliberately making things diverse if the writing gets worse because of it.

[Stove Jeebs]

The game is mediocre at best with mostly bland characters but the sh!tstorm it generated is, like you said, hilarious.

[Laser]

Publicado originalmente por pacman8030:

I don't give a crap about J.K. Rowling or what she believes in. I just want to play a video game. It's almost like being called a homophobe because you ate a chicken sandwich from Chick-Fil-A.

Rowling has been misquoted and misrepresented at every turn. She's not what she's accused of. I'm all for inclusion but I'm also for Free Speech and automatically against social media mobs. I bought this game and the movies, partially as a raised middle finger to that mob.

And if we boycotted everything produced or profiting people we disagreed with we'd starve to death.

I do look askance at twitter mobs going after Rowling and want to ask -'You do know who owns and profits from Twitter, right? You do know what he's said on the matter?'

If people are so concerned at not giving people they consider 'bad' on the matter at hand, the first thing they need to do is GTF off Twitter.

[pacman8030]

Publicado originalmente por Qubert:

I don't think the OP has responded once, grats everyone on taking the bait. SUCKERS!

Am I supposed to be monitoring my threads 24/7? I got better things to do. I just wanted to bring up a strange issue.

[Qubert]

Publicado originalmente por pacman8030:

Publicado originalmente por Qubert:

I don't think the OP has responded once, grats everyone on taking the bait. SUCKERS!

Am I supposed to be monitoring my threads 24/7? I got better things to do. I just wanted to bring up a strange issue.

Usually people that make threads are looking for a conversation about the subject, maybe answers to a problem. Or... people just like to post a controversial topic and enjoy watching the sparks fly.

OPs that never get involved further into their own thread tend to lean more on the troll side, even if that was not the intent. Your response to me suggests intent.

[PocketYoda]

Publicado originalmente por Umakurokoto:

The conversation is a bit more nuanced than that.

This board mostly goes the other way, though, with right-wing bigots complaining about Sirona, for example.

Most of the anti-JK Rowling commentary is on Reddit or Twitter.

I have no issues with Sirona as a person, my issue is Sirona being placed in a game based in 1891.. Thats just wrong and washing history to support modern politics no matter what it is is bad..

Once you start changing history for any reason you run risk of repeating it and thats dangerous.

Publicado originalmente por Frostrager:

Publicado originalmente por WolfmanStarrk:

The controversy really came to a boiling point last week when Jim Sterling went on a 20 minute tirade about JRK in a video talking about Hogwarts Legacy and said NOTHING AT ALL about the game in question.

She just proved with that video that it is actually a mental disease. They had the benefit of the doubt until she made that video.

Shes not wrong though...

[gwr2d2]

Publicado originalmente por Umakurokoto:

Publicado originalmente por datCookie:

My issue with Sirona is the poor quality of voice acting of the character. Emotionless and monotone lines read from the page.

Does this make me right wing and bigoted too?

Yeah, you're just so upset about the "poor quality of voice acting" for this character who's in the game for thirty seconds.

Yeah right.

Assuming all right wingers are bigots is textbook bigotry.
Insert DJ Khaled meme.
Nobody is upset, dude. Ok maybe you are, leading with ad homs and all.
Insert other DJ Khaled meme.

[Skyte100]

As ridiculous as it is I can't find it funny until they all ♥♥♥♥ off and leave people like Silvervale and Pika alone. Who bullies a kettle? I mean really!

[Umakurokoto]

Publicado originalmente por gwr2d2:

Publicado originalmente por Umakurokoto:

Yeah, you're just so upset about the "poor quality of voice acting" for this character who's in the game for thirty seconds.

Yeah right.

Assuming all right wingers are bigots is textbook bigotry.
Insert DJ Khaled meme.
Nobody is upset, dude. Ok maybe you are, leading with ad homs and all.
Insert other DJ Khaled meme.

How's that straw man working out for you?

I didn't say anything about all right wingers, just the bigots upset about Sirona, a character who's in the game for 30 seconds.

And, yeah, sorry if you're offended I'm not tolerant of intolerance. Oh wait, I'm not sorry about that at all.

[Lucifer ★✬]

hate the artist not the art

even tho JK has nothing to do with the game besides being the

[Bob Gnarly]

Publicado originalmente por gwr2d2:

Publicado originalmente por Umakurokoto:

Yeah, you're just so upset about the "poor quality of voice acting" for this character who's in the game for thirty seconds.

Yeah right.

Assuming all right wingers are bigots is textbook bigotry.
Insert DJ Khaled meme.
Nobody is upset, dude. Ok maybe you are, leading with ad homs and all.
Insert other DJ Khaled meme.

Oh you must've missed the first week before the mods came in with the ban hammer.

The place was flooded with angry tears, so many unstable people out there from both sides, but mainly the right I have to say. They're the only ones carrying on about wokeism. The rest of us just wanted to talk about the game.

[BlairiesTTV]

I never understood catering to a certain crowd. Just like most in a wheelchair would rather you treat them as equals instead of you pointing out that they are incapable and are sitting in a wheel chair, a constant reminder of being disabled. For a group who want so bad to be equals it sure is counter productive to also want to be special and singled out.

[Swamp Fox]

There isn't any controversy, media just amplifies the opinions of a tiny group of people so you'll focus on them instead of on eating the rich.