Of course always vote with your wallet. Just saying it’s a complex topic and it’s one thing to boycott it because Rowling profits off it, but you’re also excluding the hundreds of hard working game developers who put years of their life towards a legitimately good game.
Unfortunately, because of the existence of shareholders, pretty much anything non indie is going to be profiting off exploitative rich people with generally loads of prejudice against marginalised groups. Even indie games you’re kinda stuck, look at factorio for example. Or you’re supporting the storefront. There may be ways to consume games ethically maybe but there’s always a catch somewhere. Informing consumers of these choices is important, but judging them for it is reductive considering the only winning move is not to play.
I’m not convinced by arguments towards “support the developers”. They’ve already been paid for their work and won’t be getting royalties, and so buying and playing the game supports them neither financially or morally.
As to your final point; judging people for decisions they make is the ONLY thing that’s okay to judge people for. This isn’t a war game, and by not judging them you, personally, are helping to bolster the biggest terf in England.
So I’ll continue judging the people who engage with HP, and I’m also judging people who decide to defend them.
Basically, when it comes to the harry potter franchise, the only winning move is to not play.
Of course always vote with your wallet. Just saying it’s a complex topic and it’s one thing to boycott it because Rowling profits off it, but you’re also excluding the hundreds of hard working game developers who put years of their life towards a legitimately good game.
Unfortunately, because of the existence of shareholders, pretty much anything non indie is going to be profiting off exploitative rich people with generally loads of prejudice against marginalised groups. Even indie games you’re kinda stuck, look at factorio for example. Or you’re supporting the storefront. There may be ways to consume games ethically maybe but there’s always a catch somewhere. Informing consumers of these choices is important, but judging them for it is reductive considering the only winning move is not to play.
I’m not convinced by arguments towards “support the developers”. They’ve already been paid for their work and won’t be getting royalties, and so buying and playing the game supports them neither financially or morally.
As to your final point; judging people for decisions they make is the ONLY thing that’s okay to judge people for. This isn’t a war game, and by not judging them you, personally, are helping to bolster the biggest terf in England. So I’ll continue judging the people who engage with HP, and I’m also judging people who decide to defend them.
Basically, when it comes to the harry potter franchise, the only winning move is to not play.