Comment on Changing the language of “Hogwarts Legacy”

SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• dzsimbo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Even for free? Epic is giving it away. Just make sure to get the Heroic launcher.

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  • teolan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s free on epic? Shit’s free in a toilet

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    A few things here:

    1. I personally think that interacting with anything related to Harry Potter continues to give it cultural dominance and longevity, so even if you aren’t personally spending money to support the giant piece of shit that is JK Rowling, you’re helping it stay relevant enough to keep making that bigot of a bitch money.

    2. It can also be argued that since Epic made a deal for giving the game away, that the money has already been paid to Rowling, whether you grab the game for free or not. The fewer people who grab the free copy, the less wise of an investment it will be seen as by Epic’s beancounters. This also ties back into the first point of the more people taking the free copy is giving Harry Potter more cultural dominance and longevity.

    3. I pirated this game when it came out specifically I could play it and write about how bad it was in terms of gameplay, story, and game design. I don’t feel like re-writing a full on review here, but I’ll just say it: It’s a bad fucking game and the only reason people have given it as much attention as it has gotten is the association with Harry Potter. If this had been an original property with no connection to the HP series with similar gameplay and story it would have been a clusterfuck of a failure on release.

    Anyway I’ll shut up now but fuck Harry Potter, the only thing Harry Potter related I’ll accept anymore is Wizard People, Dear Reader, because it’s a parody.

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    • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Re: 3, I hate to say it, but pirating the game won’t let you avoid supporting TERFs. The person who cracked the game is even worse than Rowling - as in, “makes Rowling look like a paragon of progressiveness in comparison” worse - and uses the download numbers for her cracks (and the fact she’s usually the only one willing to crack Denuvo) to justify asking for donations.

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      • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That’s a fair take. I deleted it promptly after playing, but anyone who is willing to fund empress’s insanity is a fool anyway. Yet, sadly, a whole lot of fools out there.

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      • mohab@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The game has been repacked by many people though. I don’t even know where to go to get it straight from the original person who cracked it.

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      • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Does the game still have denuvo nowadays?

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    • mohab@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      How’s the action? It looked like you can launch people in the trailer and perform some kind of air combo. I doubt it leads to anything truly fun, but I’m curious.

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      • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You can, and I find it fun. Some other reviewers don’t like it, and it can be clunky, but it is still fun for me to levitate someone and then slam them into a wall.

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  • mohab@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’d rather sail the high seas than interact with Epic, TBH.

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