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[–] Alloi@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

lets just create an alternate wizarding universe.

i mean, she stole the idea from someone else anyways.

this could just be a "cruel reflection" minus the TERF nonsense, and wizards shitting on the floor.

[–] ghostface@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Instead of palworld A wizworld

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

minus the TERF nonsense, and wizards shitting on the floor.

I get the TERF stuff, but why go after such a highly regarded part of official canon lore?

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

oh no not the expansion to the game no one even remembers

dude they shut down monolith and canceled the only game with a nemesis system we were going to play. nothing they do is newsworthy anymore. they were always shitty but now they're also completely pointless.

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 177 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

JK Rowling is a transphobe, a bigot, and a fascist.

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 43 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's actually so refreshing seeing upvoted comments here with the correct take, whereas the chuds would be all over this on the other site

Fuck JKR and everything she stands for

[–] dota__2@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (3 children)

and yet, there's plenty of dogshit apologists in this thread arguing to "just let people play games" because they have zero self control. this place is literally no different than the other.

[–] monarch@lemm.ee 12 points 2 days ago (13 children)

I'll never get that mindset. Just fucking pirate it if you need to play it that bad.

[–] FollyDolly@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Or buy a used copy, which is what I did. Physical media for life!

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[–] Punchshark@lemmy.ca 61 points 3 days ago (2 children)

So is a massive chunk of murica

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So she's not even been original?

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

Nothing she's done has been original.

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[–] ThatFirey@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 days ago

Only would buy if Rowling wasn't around to receive the money from that, for now, only piracy

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

There is a lot to say about JK Rowling and trans right, but this topic is kinda devolving into an unnecessary flame war.
I'll keep as much comments as I can, but some of them clearly violate both LW TOS and community rules, and thus will be removed.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 141 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (70 children)

WHY?! WHY ARE THEY BEING SO STUPID WITH HOGWARTS?!

They built this whole world into the game and did NOTHING with it! It's empty! Hogwarts the settings is perfect! The castle was fun to walk around in, to explore! I 100%'d the game because I loved exploring in it! Then they did nothing else to the game. I don't even remember what the antagonist's name was!

The game oversold all expectations! People just loved shelling out money for it! Then WB just dropped it.

I see things bitching every day about how their game studios don't make enough money and then they shit the bed here by just letting that game sit here!

If they're actually worried about money why are they not cranking out DLC every 4-6 months?! People would buy it! The world they built is begging to have more stories told, and people are holding out their wallets asking for more content for it - and they cancel it?!? They can't bitch and moan that games don't make money and then they just flip the off switch on their freaking money printer.

Thanks. That was cathartic.

[–] Godort@lemm.ee 65 points 3 days ago (7 children)

WB doesn't seem to know how to release any media post 2010.

They keep trying to shoehorn IP into trends, years after market saturation to try and capture nostalgia, and then wonder why they didn't meet sales targets. See MK1, Space Jam 2, or anything related to HP or LotR.

The other thing they do is when they do have an interesting or original idea with the IP, the executive team seems too risk averse to put any capital behind it. See the two new Loony Tunes movies, one was in theaters for less than a week and the other was scrapped entirely for a tax writeoff.

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[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago (6 children)

They also closed Monolith, a great studio behind e.g. FEAR amd Shadow of Mordor games. They are making all the wrong decisions, and then will wonder why they have lost to competitors.

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[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Warner bros has no idea how to media anymore. They forgot about looney tunes characters. They cancel their movies after shooting before release. They do t make dlc for games that sold like hotcakes. All they did was patent the nemesis system. what the fuck are they doing?

[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Nobody knows but it really gets the people going

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

O WB. I hope you to under and loose all your licenses and copyright.

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 23 points 3 days ago (5 children)

It's disappointing that even here on the fediverse people are cheering for the franchise of someone who's sole motivation these days seems to be hating trans people.

[–] venotic@kbin.melroy.org 13 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Because there are people who can still love a franchise and not the person who created it?

Wow, blew your mind.

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[–] 3xBork@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

There's about a thousand and one other people involved with the franchise after 8 movies, 3 spinoff movies, a play and a dozen or so videogames.

Rowling is pretty much irrelevant to the fandom and people aren't into the HP stuff because of her.

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

She is directly benefitting from the sales and people buying Harry Potter stuff know that.

[–] 3xBork@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (17 children)

Yeah so are about a thousand other people who worked on the franchise/product in question and may be very positive influences on the world.

Trying to deny a literal billionaire money is symbolic at best.

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[–] Autocheese@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I think it’s really interesting that the christians used to have a huge hate boner for Harry Potter when I was growing up but now it’s shifted to the left sphere. They all kinda flip flopped

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[–] barooboodoo@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago

Every time I see Harry Potter or J.K. Rowling's name in the news I look for comments like these to restore a tiny bit of my sanity.

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[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

Oh no... anyways.

[–] lemmy_acct_id_8647@lemmy.world 62 points 3 days ago

Good. Fuck that entire franchise and the bitch who proliferated hate off the backs of its fans.

[–] LeninsOvaries@lemmy.cafe 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Ding dong the witch is dead

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[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 10 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Still waiting for them to drop Denuvo so I can pirate it. Yes, I am aware there are some old builds out there, but I know what kind of crazy circumvented Denuvo in those. No, thanks.

[–] monarch@lemm.ee 13 points 2 days ago

Whatever do you mean empress is completely well adjusted person who has never said anything questionable even once.

/s in case that was necicary

[–] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I got a virus when I tried

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