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The Hogwarts Legacy Boycott That Wasn’t

6 points by fortran77 4y ago

fortran77 4y ago
It did spectacularly well, especially given the age of the Harry Potter fanchise. The article makes good points about what it calls the "Rotten Tomatoes Split" -- the difference between profressional critics and "normies" > Hogwarts Legacy sold more than 12 million copies in its first two weeks, even though it’s not yet available for older consoles. As the website Den of Geek conceded—in an article preceded by an italicized warning about “Rowling’s history of transphobic remarks”—those sales generated more than $850 million in revenue. Let me put that number in perspective: John Wick: Chapter 4, the latest in the Keanu Reeves action-movie franchise, just had what is generally considered to be an excellent opening weekend at the box office by taking in $73.5 million.
uejfiweun 4y ago
> When Hogwarts Legacy was released in February, the verdict from video-game sites was close to unanimous: The latest spin-off from the Harry Potter series was a heartless mess, the product of a bigoted worldview, and playing it involved an uncomfortable act of moral compromise—or at least holding your nose and reassuring yourself that J. K. Rowling was not directly involved. This opening paragraph is so laughably off the mark that I decided not to read the rest of the article because it’s likely clickbait. Critical opinion was nowhere near unanimously negative. It takes approximately 5 seconds of googling to disprove this assertion.
- davoneus 4y ago
  Up front: I don't play the game, nor have I bought it. The brouhaha over it in the non-technical, broad journalistic sites was both generally lazy and biased. I browse a couple dozen 'news' sites each day, and I know my news feed was full of major press sites slamming the game. Wired's review was utterly pathetic (rated 1 out of 10), and several large newspaper organizations were not too far behind in their criticism. Heck, I canceled my sub to Wired just because of that horrific review; I figure if they let that kind of crap slide onto the top of their main page, they've fallen far enough that I don't need to support them anymore. As far as the Tech press goes, however, they mostly criticized the product for it's lack of optimization, as evidenced by the bench-marking results that were all over the place.

6 points by fortran77 4y ago

It did spectacularly well, especially given the age of the Harry Potter fanchise. The article makes good points about what it calls the "Rotten Tomatoes Split" -- the difference between profressional critics and "normies" > Hogwarts Legacy sold more than 12 million copies in its first two weeks, even though it’s not yet available for older consoles. As the website Den of Geek conceded—in an article preceded by an italicized warning about “Rowling’s history of transphobic remarks”—those sales generated more than $850 million in revenue. Let me put that number in perspective: John Wick: Chapter 4, the latest in the Keanu Reeves action-movie franchise, just had what is generally considered to be an excellent opening weekend at the box office by taking in $73.5 million.

uejfiweun 4y ago

> When Hogwarts Legacy was released in February, the verdict from video-game sites was close to unanimous: The latest spin-off from the Harry Potter series was a heartless mess, the product of a bigoted worldview, and playing it involved an uncomfortable act of moral compromise—or at least holding your nose and reassuring yourself that J. K. Rowling was not directly involved. This opening paragraph is so laughably off the mark that I decided not to read the rest of the article because it’s likely clickbait. Critical opinion was nowhere near unanimously negative. It takes approximately 5 seconds of googling to disprove this assertion.

davoneus 4y ago
Up front: I don't play the game, nor have I bought it. The brouhaha over it in the non-technical, broad journalistic sites was both generally lazy and biased. I browse a couple dozen 'news' sites each day, and I know my news feed was full of major press sites slamming the game. Wired's review was utterly pathetic (rated 1 out of 10), and several large newspaper organizations were not too far behind in their criticism. Heck, I canceled my sub to Wired just because of that horrific review; I figure if they let that kind of crap slide onto the top of their main page, they've fallen far enough that I don't need to support them anymore. As far as the Tech press goes, however, they mostly criticized the product for it's lack of optimization, as evidenced by the bench-marking results that were all over the place.