I don't know what percentage Rowling is going to get from the proceeds of this game, but it's not going to be a pittance. Whatever money she doesn't get to platform and spread her bullshit, or financially support whatever hateful bigots she's alligned herself with is worth it.
Which is fair, and anyone is free to do so if they do not want to support someone in any capacity, no matter how small.
She’s still making her cut though either way, while the actual people who spent years working on the game for far, far, faaaar less are the ones having to endure all the outcries and people shitting on it just because of her. Talk about demoralizing when they’re just doing their jobs, and apparently pretty well considering the consensus of people who’ve bothered to play it.
Right? I understand not wanting to support someone out of protest, but the person that's being protested against is so much higher and beyond the chain of command that you're basically choosing to tell everyone else that worked hard on the project to fuck off cause you don't like someone that isn't their boss, or even involved in the company that
made the game...? I entirely understand, don't get me wrong. I just feel like this form of protest is catching the wrong people in the crossfire.
I think the big takeaway from the Hogwarts situation is that people are starting to not accept the constant shifting anymore. Regular people just want to enjoy shit and now they are no longer worried about online screaming that they are bigots because of X,Y,Z, when their behavior has nothing to do with bigotry, or phobias, or whatever the label is.
Everyday people that don't know about this kind of controversy definitely shouldn't be labelled for it. People see a video game in a franchise they like that they want to play, in which they want to buy it so they can have some fun and have some escapism from this reality we all live in. That doesn't make them bigoted, racist, sexist, or whatever else. Most people don't sit on Twitter and listen to the stream of nonsense people spew there all day every day. Some people, believe it or not, have real lives outside of the internet, and look to video games and other forms of media and entertainment for fun.
The other problem with modern activism is the inability to sit down and have an actual conversation about given concerns. Or problems. They tell you, "Supporting Harry Potter supports transphobia and bigotry". How does it do this? Well JK Rowling is apparently transphobic so if you support her work you support her ideals. Which is logic that suggests if you have a smart phone you must support child slave labor because that's how the materials used to make these phones are mined. It all comes from wild claims that nobody can ever show proof of and if you ask for proof, then you're yelled out of the room. It hurts progress, because you can't express real ideas and offer real solutions with anyone.
Didn't think I'd be able to have a hard-agree with you, but, here we are.
There is nearly no truly ethical consumerism in this world at this point, and if you think you've found it, you likely actually haven't or just aren't aware that the option you found is actually fucked up somewhere along the chain in a way that you don't realize.
Absolutely make your own choices about what you want to support or don't no matter how small, that's everyone's right to do so. However, to live in the society we do, with all the modern conveniences we have, you have to realize that no matter what you do, you're supporting some horrible businesses and people that have even more horrible business practices that most of the general public aren't even remotely aware of. We seem to be able to accept that for some things, maybe it's fine to just accept that for other things if it means we can scrape at least some little bit more joy in our lives.
It's either supporting some crusty hag by extension, or some other terrible person you aren't lucky enough to know the name of. That doesn't make you a bad person. That makes you a human being that has to live on this fucked up world like everyone else
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