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Oh. So G*mers hate the obvious transphobic, antisemitic, racist nostalgia bait.
Because it’s free on Epic.
Fuck G*mers.
It’s antisemitic? I haven’t finished it yet, or maybe I’m just dense, but how is it antisemitic? And isn’t Sirona trans? And I’ve met at least one openly gay married couple in game too.
I don’t want to be defensive of something bad or to demean your opinion, I just want to understand this point of view since you aren’t the first person I’ve seen express it.
I mean, I know about the “bankers” depiction in HarryPotha being a caricature.
People say that because goblins in the HP universe are commonly depicted as working for a bank, and because they have large pointy noses similar to how Jewish people get caricatured, HP is anti-Semitic.
I see what they mean, but in fairness there’s a lot more nuance than angry commenters let on.
Goblins have been depicted as being short and pointy-nosed for centuries, or possibly even longer. It’s not really a Harry Potter thing. That’s just what goblins are usually depicted like.
Similarly, goblins have been depicted for a long time - similar to dwarves in folklore - as expert miners, fond of jewels and precious metals that they dig up, and also as expert craftsmen.
I’m not really sure where the “goblins are traders” thing came from, the earliest reference I can find to that is Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market poem from the 1860s, and writers seem to have run with it from there.
It does follow that creatures who mine for precious things and are expert craftsmen would be proficient in trade. So to me it makes complete sense why a writer would say “ok, I want to put goblins into my modern setting fantasy novel, where should they be? Oh! They can work in a magical bank, that makes sense! Oh, and let’s make it so that the Goblins were the ones who originally crafted the sword of Griffindor, that makes sense too!”
So I’m going to go against the grain a bit and say that I find it plausible goblins were written with no intent to compare them to Jews. I think JKR wrote goblins the way almost everyone else did.
She is undeniably hateful of trans people, though. Yes, Hogwarts Legacy does have trans characters, but that’s something JKR was unhappy about. She’s said she doesn’t care about the game at all and that she doesn’t think of it as hers. There’s been speculation that she got paid a lump sum up front rather than ongoing royalties, but I’m not sure it’s confirmed.
More likes here! Surely feddy way connect platforms?
They have no idea
Misskey?
pottercel losers comment below so i can expand my blocklist
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”
that sounds real “let us see if i can convince them not giving me money makes me win”
We can’t let the anti-trans black mold win.
Like she knows how.
she has market research companies doing that for her, she’s a billionaire
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.
so one of the gals at lesbian board game night really enjoys the potterverse. there was no way she wasn’t playing HogLeg. our group’s solution was to buy one copy of the game but share it, and let our extended friends groups know so we could share the one copy between like 50 people.
Unfortunately we’ve already lost. Even if she had no investments and had to live off her current billions she’d still be able to inject £100,000 of caviar and racehorse semen (oh sorry, printer ink is actually more valuable) into her veins every night and still be good for the next 30+ years. In one sense, whether she makes money off you or not changes nothing because she’ll still be able to fund all the anti trans shit she wants with her current empire.
Billionaires are a mistake of society and she’s a garbage person but whether one person or 500,000 people buy Hogwarts is quite literally meaningless to her wealth because she already won capitalism.
So? Don’t support fascists. Don’t try to justify with bullshit like “we already lost”
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.
Around one week ago the game was on sale on Steam for %85, if any of your friends have bought it during that time ask them to refund :)
Reminder that
- Epic Games, unlike Steam, is subsidizing sales. So instead your own money, it’s some Chinese oligarch’s money, that will go into Joanne Karen Rowling’s TERF war chest, who’re betting on Epic instead of Steam.
- Joanne is also anti-porn, and Collective Shout are TERFs, so there’s a good chance that the TERF war chest also funds the war on porn, and by extension, war on human self-expression.
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 🤢)
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
With knowing nothing about the game’s plot, why do I need to remember these things?
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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.
Hogwarts legacy isn’t based on the books plot?
Am I missing the joke?
No it’s not, but it is a chosen one story with story progression tied to traditional seasonal holidays, scenes and battles replicating key events from the books, and a mentor whose sacrifice triggers the defeat of the big bad and the conclusion of the story.
I’m not saying every plot point is predictable, but the “oh wow the key was a portkey and saved us from being killed” was predictable long before the dragon appeared and it doesn’t really get more complex from there.
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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.
Its an okay game, its built in the same skin as dragon age inquisition. The story is okay, it feels dated though. I liked exploring and collecting stuff but they make you wait until half way through the story to be able to open certain doors, so you have to go back later.
I never finished it, it felt very repetitive after a short while. The combat is super boring.
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?
VPN
Did using a VPN not work?
If you are patient, you can torrent off i2p
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”
I love how ‘it’s free’ became a whole genre of advertising.
Be careful if you download this game our computer will blow up if you make your character trans by swapping them for witch or wizard
The worst thing about the antisemitic, transphobic wizard game: it’s extremely mid.
I don’t get it. It’s actually a fun game.
I think the Map of the castle is absolutely exceptional and there’s a lot of attention to detail.
The main storyline is enjoyable enough, although I wish there was more of a push-back if you choose to use the unforgivable curses. They’re meant to be unforgivable and yet you pretty much get a “oh I wish you wouldn’t do that” when you straight up torture an enemy in front of an NPC.
The main letdown for me is that outside of the castle, a lot of the game feels somewhat empty. It’s not like Skyrim where you go out into the world and you’re always finding little things spread out everywhere that piques your interest. It feels like there’s not much reason to venture out from the castle or Hogsmeade unless a mission explicitly tells you to.
Overall though I do think it’s decent.
it supports a TERF
Even if you download it for free?
The whole IP is dead to me. It won’t get any of my attention, free or not.
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.
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
It was fun in the beginning, running around Hogwarts is cool, Hogsmead looks very pretty. But the rest of the world is just boring and I suppose the story is enough for a game but nowhere near the books. I finished it once, had a lot of fun, tried to play through a second time and made it halfway through before giving up.
After I got my broom it took literally all wonder and playability out of the game for me. So I got maybe 10-15 hours out of it. Thankfully I didn’t pay for it, it’s in my family library on steam.
Although those first few minutes on the school broom in flying class flying around Hogwarts was fantastic.
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 bitch 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.
It’s because epic store launched with “exclusive access” being a “perk” to attract users. I fucking hate that shit in the TV/Movie space so I decided to not support it.
Also, using that as an opening move suggested that they’d enshitify as soon as they have the market power to do so.
Plus their anti-linux stance. Not just not supporting the shift to linux but specifically against it by removing support that was previously there. And they killed off the UT franchise to be sure it wouldn’t compete with Fortnite.
Even the reduced commission rate just seems like a play to build market share to be abused.
Meanwhile, the biggest negative I’ve seen from valve is cosmetic lootboxes that you can ignore by not playing their games or not buying lootboxes if you do.
It supporting Gaben into billionairehood isn’t great but he’s one of the few that makes things better by still being around (because who knows if the next one(s) in control will sell out or not). Plus, with him already being a billionaire, MS can’t change his course by throwing money at him.
Plus their anti-linux stance. Not just not supporting the shift to linux but specifically against it by removing support that was previously there
unreal engine is on linux and has been for a while AFAIK.
Yeah dude is a twat and has some shitty opinions but the same people who bitch 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.
You like gaming on linux through Proton layer?
Thank Valve for funding its development.
Yes and I have said the same thing in other comments before.
What about my comments made you think I don’t like or support steam?
I said that people complain about the epic games guy but also whine and moan about Gabe having yachts. Then you said they are being consistent and I said well when they recommend to use other millionaire/billionaires platforms that is not being consistent that is hating on a specific platform for the same things other platforms do (have rich people run them)
I’m confused about what you are defending or against here.
You can see in my comment history I have said the same thing you just said before to people anti steam. I love steam, and what it does for Linux.
But that doesn’t mean I’m against epic either.
Do you like cross platform gaming? Thank epic.
Hating on one but defending the other is exactly what I said doesn’t make any sense. Every successful gaming company is going to have millionaires. So when I said, people hate on epic but then complain that Gabe has yachts but still tell people to use steam over epic that doesn’t make any sense and is the opposite of consistent.
Are you sure those are same people having all these stances simultaneously?
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.
put new, unreleased games up for sale at up to 50% off without permission from the devs during their first sales event
Holy shit I did not know that that definitely deserves some serious hate in that case.
The exclusivity stuff I get the hate for a little but PS and Xbox and Nintendo did the same thing for a couple decades but it still doesn’t make it right that they did either. But I do get it a bit.
I do prefer Steam and love what they do for Linux the steam deck is one of my favorite toys. But if I see something for cheaper on Epic than on steam I’ll always go for the cheaper option but some people act like epic doesn’t even exist as an option which I get a little more now after seeing some of these things you mentioned the forcing devs games into sales without permission is super fucked up.
at that price
But Epic’s whole pitch was that they take a much smaller cut
Yeah, but it’s not a 1 to 1 comparison like people like to make it out to be. Valve takes a higher percentage but offers more for that higher price.
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.
Sure, but you realize how niche that is right? Like Heroic is literally less than .1% of Epic users.
That sounds like a failing on Epic users to me. I ran Heroic on windows before I made the switch to linux. The fact that Epic gives shit away for free without even requiring their launcher is pretty insane if you think about it. A lot of the games can run DRM-free from Epic as well (the original Horizon: Zero Dawn for example).
Yea, Tim Sweeney is from the old school tech cadre that believes that taking a business loss to keep the ultra-nerds happy can buy more public/community goodwill than traditional advertising.
He’s also from old school tech in that he’s an unapologetic asshole who thinks he’s god’s gift to earth.
I’m still gonna take pennies out of his pocket by taking as many free games as I can. At least most of the people involved in making games aren’t assholes.
That’s fair but anyone can run it that way without it having root access, even on Windows.
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.
