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Any company that aligns with her is also aligning with her worldview, tacitly or not.
Hogwarts Legacyis a big deal.
)Hogwarts Legacy,on the other hand, comes from a genuine pedigree.
All of this wouldve been downright liberating for long-sufferingHarry Potter gamers, if not for all the other baggage.
In it, there is a response for the question, What is J.K. Rowlings involvement with the game?
This is not a new story from J.K. Rowling.
Thats the rub here.
This was evidenced by a Warner Bros. company Q&A session that leaked out in October last year.
(Henley correctly asserts that this reasoning is a fundamental misunderstanding of a boycotts function.)
(There is literally a video called Its Okay to Be a Gamer.)
Apparently, none of that mattered to the company.
It didnt appear to be an issue for them, he said.
Only a week after that debacle did we learn aboutHogwarts Legacystrans-inclusive character creator.
You arent alone if that report rings a little hollow.
Instead, these two companies will keep taking one step forward, and two steps back.
In fact, they cant even admit that a problem exists.
To be clear, Avalanche and Warner Bros. are far from the only ones staring down that barrel.
Right now,HBO is rumored to be circling a Harry Potter TV show.
It might still sell a lot of copies, but at what cost?
