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Honestly wondering how many gamers are just trying to cope they paid full price for a crap game with worse endings than Mass Effect 3?
Said it before, said it again:
Hogwarts Legacy would be nothing if it wasn’t an own-the-libs game.
I don’t get it because libs also bought millions of copies. Conservatives buying the most soy game by the millions.
\1) most consumers aren’t engaged with the culture war. like i know it’s the only thing everyone online is talking about but 90% of people buying this game have no idea that anyone is even mad about it. 2) most consumers have bad taste and are susceptible to advertising.
boycotts are hopeless because of cultural bifurcation, yeah, but also because what we might term the consumptive forces are so hypertrophied now that any grassroots call to a particular consumptive action or inaction is pissing upstream.
Lol imagine having a worse ending than mass effect 3
mass effect 3 also managed to avoid having explicit antisemitism in any of their three choices
I would argue, based on this description at least, it is far from that.
Mass effect 3s ending in it’s original form was not only a poor sendoff for the heroes, not only undid most of the mythology in the process, but indeed became the complete antithesis of some of the core themes of the series with it’s replacement of diversity and collaboration with homogeneity.
This ending while utterly mediocre and unfulfilling…seems at the very least kinda on brand actually.
this whole thing has been giving me real Ghostbusters (2016) marketing vibes, like the publisher leaned into it
I’m actually kind of amazed at how good the game turned out to be. Hear me out. This studio made shovelware for 20 years. This game, while mid, is on another scale. The studio must have been radically re-organized just for Hogwart’s Legacy, but it’s still brand new so of course it was all out of their depth.
I wonder why they didn’t just approach a real company with the IP. Is it because Rowling like her deal with WB? Is it because of creative control? Is it because WB went for the rights to make the games? I dunno. But hell Ubisoft would have probably done a better job at making an Ubisoft clone.
WB has made a lot of open world games based on licenses. Besides this game they did the Arkham and LOTR.
