made me chuckle
made me chuckle

made me chuckle

But hogwarts legacy is actually a really good game, the whole problem was that it might lead to jk rowling getting more money. Though they never did clarify if she got a cut or a flat fee that would have already been paid. Either way, this should nullify that, but the team that made the game did a great job, and made it more in-line with the spirit of the books instead of the author. Went specifically against her current wishes. The trans inclusion and positivity was pretty well done. Even if it was put in to spite her, they didn't draw attention to it, it just is there, and no one bats an eye.
Edit: I should mention that I played it in VR, I can't speak to what the game is like without VR. But I really enjoyed it. UEVR with a motion controls mod, there is also a voice casting mod, but I didn't personally go that route.
Even if she doesn't get a direct payment per copy sold, which I'm not sure I believe considering you know her negotiating power, there are still benefits for her. Increasing the brand increases future payments. Increases her bargaining power later on. And I'm sure allows her more creative control which means that any trans inclusion would probably be nullified in future projects.
Maybe it's a good game, but at a certain point you got to nut up or shut up. Are you going to take a stand and boycott something or not? Yeah you miss out on things with your boycott, that's the point. If you're not willing to sacrifice at all, and we're talking a very minimal sacrifice here aren't we, then what are you even doing?
Though why we are even talking about paying for it I don't quite understand. There's always other ways.
You are certainly allowed to boycott it for the principle, that's perfectly fine. But calling the game shit (Screenshot) just because it's from harry potter and attacking the devs and it's players was not warranted at all. I am obviously not implying you or OP did but many people did that and called it a boycott, that's what I didn't like. And a disclaimer, I am also not a harry potter fan, never tried the game myself and absolutely hate the author. Just felt bad for the game devs.
I have to disagree, it wasn't a particularly good game. Everything felt off. I was days into the game and it felt like I was still doing tutorial missions. Basic mechanics weren't unlocked until 3 quarters through the game. And I can't imagine it has much replayability at all beyond trying to hunt down every trinket.
It never granted you the feeling of being a wizard or whatever made Harry Potter special, it made Wizards feel ridiculous. 90% of the game is spamming a generic unnamed "attack" spell
I was days into the game and it felt like I was still doing tutorial missions. Basic mechanics weren't unlocked until 3 quarters through the game
Oh wow. That's fucking heinous. Even if there was nothing else objectionable about the game, that's a definite dealbreaker.
Ah, I should probably mention that I played it in VR with motion controls, so combat was alot more fun than what the flat version of the game probably did. And just riding a broom or looking around at the really detailed environments(those that were) was worth it being very videogamey otherwise.
Isn't the game about putting down a Jewish slave rebellion?
No, no, they are goblins not Jews. By the end of 10th grade this 16 year old has killed like 1000 goblins and 1000 "dark" wizards, all extrajudicial, and everyone is just like "good job on your homework". It's pretty fucked up.
Slightly problematic if true.
Not only that, but it also makes reference to multiple attempted genocides against Jews with the dates of other goblin rebellions and item descriptions such as a Jewish religious horn being described as a "goblin war horn used to annoy wizards" that is filled specifically with a non-Kosher type of cheese.
Then there's also the fact that the lead dev resigned from the project after it came out that he ran a white supremacist YouTube channel, and made a statement about how he "felt at home" with the other people working on the game.
It's an insanely boring game with no depth. To each their own, but calling it a "really good game" is as much of a stretch as calling it "shit". To me it felt like a Hogwarts walking simulator with a bunch of basic unrelated minigames stuck onto it, marketed as an open world action rpg. The combat was insulting.
It's almost like people can have different opinions on things.
Yeah it feels very unfinished. The whole South of the map is completely unused, and they clearly cut quidditch last minute.
really good game
Yeah no
I too wish I could do more fetch quests with barely a story holding them together.
Yeah, my wife got it super cheaply on PS4 (so if JKR got anything, it would be about 2¢) and enjoyed the game a lot ... she's gender nonconforming, and played using the male-coded body model with female-coded hair which looked like pleasantly non-binary combo :-)
Yeah, my sister was pretty reluctant at first, she is ACE and wanted to support the boycott, but then when the game was basically a slap in the face to rowling, and rowling was trying to tank the game by tweeting that buying the game still supported her anyway, we took that as meaning that she actually wasn't making residuals on it or she would have just shut her mouth and raked in the money like normal.
I played the game in VR myself, but my sister played it flat screen. We both enjoyed the game. It is definitely very "videogamey" but, been playing videogames for over 30 years, so that is nothing new. The parts that were new to us were worth the parts that weren't.
I don't agree. It's not a good game. The only reason people may think it's good is because it's Harry Potter stuff. It's yet another boring open world game about wasting your time.
It was alright at the beginning in Hogwarts, but the open world segments, which are most of the game, suck. I think the biggest most glaring thing that shows they're just copying other formulas to waste your time is the lockpicking. They have a spell to open locks, but for some reason it has a lockpicking mini game you have to complete? Not only that, but the person who teaches the spell is the groundskeeper?
There's bones of an interesting game there, but they decided to make it yet another bland open world game that's mostly empty. The entire point of 90% of the game is to just extend how long you're playing it, which is bad design. They should create content you want to play, not boring crap they need to try to trick you into playing by making the game worse until you do it.
It's probably a fine game for console players who only ever play boring AAA slop like Ubisoft games. They've accepted this garbage as normal. For me though, I resented my time with it. I'm a fairly big Harry Potter fan (as much as I hate to admit) but I hated my time wasted on the game.
Just pirate. Do not inflate Epic Games' numbers. All corporations are evil, but I think we can all agree that Tim Sweeney is leagues above Gabe Newell in terms of being an utter piece of shit.
Want to support the developers? Guess what. They already got the money from Epic, so whether or not you claim the game doesn't make a difference. And even if it did, none of that would go towards the actual devs.
JK Rowling has openly said that she also sees piracy as an endorsement of her fascist views. She looks at the download numbers and thinks to herself "trans women have finally lost"
Like she knows how.
We can't let the anti-trans black mold win.
that sounds real "let us see if i can convince them not giving me money makes me win"
I believe this game still has denuvo which was only cracked by empress and it's a pretty outdated version
Pirate it AND claim it for free on Epic. Take pennies out of Tim Sweeney's pocket.
the paid option:
or just buy it on Steam with a discount,will supports both developers and Valve depending on the price.
The point is not to buy it because Rowling is a piece of shit. A penny in her pocket is too much.
Joke is, I might actually grab it for free. So long as Rowling isn't profiting from it, I don't actively hate HP (despite its bad worldbuilding and unsubtle racism 😬). Especially that iirc there were a few small things in the game kinda flipping off Rowling, so the devs working on it probably didn't like her either.
I'm trans, and HP was a big part of my childhood, then Rowling got brain-mould and somewhat ruined it retroactively (tbh even before her current TERF saga she kept tweeting bollocks, like that whole "wizards used to shit in the corner and magic it away" thing 🤢)
She absolutely is profiting from it.
When a game is "free" the publisher isn't just donating it for funzies. Either Epic pays them (Epic is spending money to get people to its platform) or the publisher is using the game to advertise other games, which has value to them.
Epic pays the publisher a flat fee for permission to distribute the game for free for the week.
Your individual download doesn't give Rowling any less or more, but shows support for her IP, and tells epic they made a good decision to support her.
I've heard great things about the game, but for me the download does support Rowling, so it's a hard pass.
if you’re gonna play it, just remember that your teacher dies at the end and can’t be saved, and that rockwood is the one that cursed anne
For those worried these are actually spoilers, keep in mind this is a game for children which adapts the book series in to a bunch of fetch quests and Farmville stuff. All the plot points are pretty much predictable from the get go. Snape kills Dumbledore.
With knowing nothing about the game's plot, why do I need to remember these things?
Be careful if you download this game your computer will blow up if you make your character trans by swapping them for witch or wizard
I love how ‘it’s free’ became a whole genre of advertising.
oh nice. I love HL. will let some friends know they can grab it for free.
Was very mid, felt like a ubisoft game.
I hope you find another game you like.
Man you ain’t lying. Fun game but you’re right it was pretty mid. I will say the opening “tutorial” was very cool
Don't give Epic your time or money. Putting aside Fortnite and their pro-AI stance, they forsake the Unreal Tournament series. That's just unforgivable.
As for Hogwart's Legacy, the game is decent and even fun at first but gets repetitive quick. Bully from 2006 is a similar game minus the magic and lucrative IP attached. A shame it didn't get a sequel.
And as for J. K. Rowling, forgive me but she's a cunt. I wasn't huge on Harry Potter when growing up so I don't have any nostalgia about the series - be it the books or movies- but I know many of you are. I also know that many of you are LGBTQ+ so how you decided to reconcile with the series is up to you. While you can separate Rowling from your affection to the series, don't give her any more your time, money or attention.
Plus Bully did it so much better with social interactions with staff and students, having a schedule and generally feeling like a school. HL came nowhere even close to that to the point where I wondered if the devs even tried to make it like Bully and we all just assumed they did because what other game makes school life the focus and does it even half as well? I don't even think there is an indie game that tries it.
Isn't that the game where you can be a douchebag in every single dialogue option and people still end up being your friend with NO change in story whatsoever?
The dialogue options presented are "overly courteous" or "neutral"
The worst thing you can say are things like "don't mess with me" or "I have to report you for that"
More likes here! Surely feddy way connect platforms?
Misskey?
They have no idea
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I don't get it. It's actually a fun game.
it supports a TERF
Even if you download it for free?
It's pretty middling tbh. I played it last year when it was on PSPlus. Certainly couldn't see a reason for all the hype it got on launch. I assume HP fans are just starved of new content.
The gameplay is OK, but there's a lot of dicking about swapping spells, it's too damn long, and honestly not worth your time for a full playthrough. It's a very standard open world, go to the map icons, do the minigames affair. If you've played games in the last ten years, you'll know exactly what to expect. They've made a game for kids that will be played mostly by people who are now adults.
I've never understood the hate for Epic Games Store. Without Epic cross platform gaming would have never happened on consoles.
Yeah dude is a twat and has some shitty opinions but the same people who removed about him will whine and moan about Gabe Newell having yachts.
I really just don't understand it.
If you don't want anyone to make money from games then that leaves no money left to develop games.
In fact, epic charges less than half of the listing fee for devs and publishers than any other service that lists games. (They lose money doing this, but they still do it).
Just really odd behavior in my opinion. People find anything to divide themselves over.
The store behaves like malware, with stuff running as root in the background all the time mining your personal information, and constantly keeps re-enabling ad popups even when I disable them. At least the uninstaller works.
I run it through Heroic and it doesn't have root access at all. In fact my entire gaming profile doesn't have root access to the rest of the machine which is recommended for anything gaming related even steam.
If you're talking about on Windows then you're already running Malware in the form of Windows OS, to be honest. But since you said root I'm assuming you mean on Linux.
Gamers are extremely toxic nowadays. it used to be less public. now they just rage at everything constantly. and in certain circles, its expected behavior.
lemmy gamers tend to be extremely anti-Epic Games even though there's some really good deals on there.
Yeah dude is a twat and has some shitty opinions but the same people who removed about him will whine and moan about Gabe Newell having yachts.
they are being fair and consistent.
Odd then that most of them that hate on epic still recommend to use Steam instead.
Some say GOG, which is also owned by millionaires.
I'm failing to see the consistency.
Steam also provides a lot more than just a store front for devs at that price, including customer support, multiplayer servers, anticheat, and forums and other social features.
Epic also launched their store without a shopping cart (you had to buy everything as individual transactions) and put new, unreleased games up for sale at up to 50% off without permission from the devs during their first sales event, amongst other things. Like buying multiplatform games to ensure that they only launched on the Epic store. Nobody liked it when Ubisoft, EA, Blizzard, or Rockstar tried that exclusivity crap with their own launchers/storefronts, and they don't like that Epic does it either.
Dude is a twat and his opinions unfortunately drive Epic's policies. People hated Steam when it first launched as well, but Valve as a company has consistently worked to put customer value and rights as a selling point of their products, and people appreciate them for that. Beyond Steam as a sales platform, they've been a driving force in other parts of the industry such as VR and Linux gaming.
at that price
But Epic's whole pitch was that they take a much smaller cut
The worst thing about the antisemitic, transphobic wizard game: it's extremely mid.
Oh. So G*mers hate the obvious transphobic, antisemitic, racist nostalgia bait.
Because it's free on Epic.
Fuck G*mers.
is there any way i can pirate games without my isp cutting me off to a point where we had to switch to an different isp?
If you are patient, you can torrent off i2p
VPN
Did using a VPN not work?