Also the Goblins are evil in this universe so this artifact implies that Fettmilch was evil, so how is it anti-semetic when it reads like a call out to how much of a bastard Fettmilch was?
How are goblins evil in this universe?
Do you think that's what the explicit message of Harry Potter was supposed to be, that some races are just evil and inferior and need to be kept down? In particular,
the race who run the banks in which everyone stores their money and possessions.
Because I have a pretty passionate dislike of JK Rowling, and even I think you're doing her dirty with that assessment.
That clearly wasn't the explicit message at all, it's the
implicit one, and at this point I can't even tell you for sure it was unintentional because the author seems to be perfectly fine making friends with all kinds of insane bigots. But frankly, I don't think many of the people who are still taking the time to defend Harry Potter for some reason actually think that was the message.
Like, you can't tell me the people making this game don't follow the discourse around it. They have paid community managers. They absolutely knew about the recurring anti-semitism thing and the way the films had already mishandled it. If noone in the entire creative process sat down, looked at this and thought "hey, maybe lets' double check there's no way this could be misconstrued", then someone fucked up.
Like, there didn't even need to be a date. You could have just said "the goblin uprising" and left the date ambiguous, or given a vague date like "the seventeenth century". If for some reason it had to be a specific date, maybe check that date doesn't coincide with a pogrom (I know there are a lot of pogroms, but come on).
If this is all a misunderstanding, then it implies a level of idiocy which noone should feel particularly obligated to forgive. These people want us all to go on social media and hype their game, they can deal with the backlash when they fuck up (assuming, generously, that this was a fuck up and not actual malice).
Also, just make it a fucking trumpet. 2 minutes in photoshop. 2 seconds to rewrite text. Done.