This post was written back at the beginning of February and was supposed to come out before the game was released… but editing took me a long time, especially with me having exams, some health issues arising, and depression being a thing… So, now it’s March and I’m finally releasing it.

Therefore, I hope that this sort of sheds some light on the issues at hand. I’ll talk about a few of the arguments that are being made, about what general stances there are, and I want to also give my own two cents on the topic. I’ll outline some facts surrounding its release and the world it’s set in – aka why it’s a problematic release. Hence, I want to talk about this controversy today. “Don’t buy the game, don’t stream it, don’t promote it!” – and on the other side of it all, there are people that think that “it’s just a game” or that people are being “over the top” about it. Rowling created, as well as Rowling’s views on trans-people. Leading up to and after the release of the open-world fantasy game Hogwarts Legacy by Swedish dev studio, Avalanche Studios, there has been a lot of controversy in regards to the contents and development of the game, its association with the problematic world that Joanne K.

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