3/1/2024 0 Comments Jk rowling on hogwarts legacy![]() ![]() On one side sat hollow excuses and transparently performative support, while the other only served to throw trans people under the bus like they always do. You just wanted to be able to ignore all the consequences of your actions in peace. You don’t have a transphobic bone in your body, there’s no way you’d support Rowling, but she didn’t touch this game, and you simply need to support the developers, and it isn’t fair that the loony leftists are screaming at you. It also surfaced an ideological tug of war that so few were ready to reconcile. ![]() An adaptation of a property millions grew up on that flirts with the bloated magic of triple-A open world design to conjure up an adventure that to many felt unmissable. Hogwarts Legacy feels like a defining point in the evolution of video games. Trying to feebly justify to my face how it doesn’t make you a bad person, and you just want to hang out with the homies in charms class should really highlight that perhaps you’re trying to bargain for the wrong side. To say, “I just love Harry Potter” as you buy the game and donate a few pounds to charity in a spur of the moment admission of guilt isn’t good enough, and it definitely won’t be the last time gamers cast aside their beliefs in favour of short, unfulfilling bursts of fun. I think Rowling’s views are mainstream enough in the modern era that ignoring them was a complicit acknowledgment on the part of most. We asked you to cast aside a product to tell corporations that transphobia was a dealbreaker for you, and it turns out it wasn’t. We bring similar media to task for homophobia or racism, but suddenly this kind of discrimination is excusable? Minority groups don't exist on a tier of indifference dependent on whether actually showing your support gets in the way of a cool video game. Hogwarts Legacy is a part of that reality, and one we can’t afford to treat as an exception. Transphobia will never exist in a vacuum, and factors everything we say, do, and consume. The real world is changing, yet we refuse to accept that games are too. ![]()
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