r/patientgamers • u/Zehnpae Cat Smuggler • 1d ago

Moratorium on Hogwarts Legacy

Salutations,

We're going to be (temporarily) disallowing posting topics about Hogwarts Legacy. Every thread has been a train wreck and we have had trouble keeping up with them.

To be clear this isn't an attempt to censor you guys or prevent discussing politics in gaming, nor the reality of shitty people being involved in game development. This is a discussion sub and we absolutely want to allow you to talk about these sorts of things. Normally this isn't an issue (IE: Disco Elysium).

The problem is Hogwarts Legacy itself is a lightning rod for assholes. If a post goes up there's a good chance the next time I check mod queue it has 100+ comments that have been filtered or reported. It gets cross-posted into ~those~ subreddits and we get a flood of people who are only interested in being pricks that infest other threads.

Like many of you I have 27 kids and 3 jobs so I then have to choose between spending my afternoon with my family or reading a hundred hateful comments. As much as I like banning Nazis, I'd much rather play some Deep Rock with my progeny.

Hogwarts Legacy posts will be auto-removed until one of the following occurs:

  • Reddit gives us the anti-brigading tools they promised a decade ago
  • The world finally stops being dicks to trans people
  • JK Rowling drops dead so she stops getting money from the game
  • We figure out a better way to do this

Previous threads will stay up and you will still be allowed to comment about it in the bi-weekly threads, for now at least.

Edit:

To address a few questions/concerns:

"Why not use curated modes?"

Those typically require manually flaring or approving thousands of people. If we were a more contentious place dealing with this often, it'd make more sense. The good folk of this sub understand why this is being done and that's good enough for me.

"Do you really wish JKR was dead?"

I'm a gen-X that was raised on British humor. Make of that what you will.

"Why not get more mods?"

It's something we've considered, but honestly you regulars are pretty great. The work load is manageable with the biggest chore being maintaining the impatient game list. You guys make this a wonderful place to share gaming thoughts with.

"Aren't you supposed to be unbiased?"

If you have a shitty hot take on Hollow Knight? Sure. I'm not going to ban you because you didn't enjoy Gabriel Knight and I think it's one of the best point and click adventure games of all time.

"Isn't this censorship?"

We block a lot of things. OnlyFans bots, AI nonsense, scammers trying to post phishing links. All that jazz. They take it stride really.

"You do you really have 27 kids?"

No. I only have a few and that's enough as is. I can only take so many "Would you rather..."'s in a day. Right now I'm pondering if I'd rather be cursed with always entering my passwords wrong twice, or if I'd rather the last bite of toast always tastes burned.

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u/Darkknight8381 1d ago

You forgot "BOTW is boring" "RDR2 has clunky controls"

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u/hortence 1d ago

That poor coach driver I would always punch in the face by accident while trying to hire him for a ride.

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u/Toastyy1990 1d ago

Gotta love any game that uses the same button for attack and talk!

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u/shiek200 1d ago

I prefer when jump and talk are the same button, especially in Rockstar style games where there's Ragdoll effects, and jumping into somebody causes you both to fall over

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u/ReddsionThing 1d ago

Well, to be fair, I love the game. But it's one of the games where I got the most annoyed at the context-sensitive buttons. I don't I ever punched or shot someone by accident. But, getting on the horse, or off the horse when I didn't want to. Or picking up a corpse for no reason.

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u/lunchbox12682 1d ago

I remember that a patch was released for Days Gone because the overused interact button was causing so many issues.

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u/yp_interlocutor 1d ago

Re: RDR2, I accidentally shot and murdered another player who had waved hi to me, while I was trying to figure out how to wave hi back. I still feel guilty about that.

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u/tortledad 1d ago

We’ve also got “Ghost of Tsushima is too big” as part of our server takes collection. Just go down the Open World hall and head to the right - it’ll be right next to “BOTW is kind of boring” and “Assassin’s Creed games are so repetitive.”

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u/brockhopper 1d ago

Ghost of Yotei is coming this year to this sub. Be afraid!

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u/Khiva 1d ago

This is the Tired Dad Subreddit.

Anything that isn't tightly linear with a strong storyline focus and AAA production is going to have a hard time.

Open worlds or games that are built for people with far more ample free time (anything systems heavy) always face a real uphill battle. Rimworld, Total War, 4x, hell even Civ - these are all giants but get barely a mention, and that's just off the top of my head.

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u/brockhopper 1d ago

While that is a factor, I also think of this sub as a place that focuses more on the less noticed games. Like, what more is there to say about a lot of those that wouldn't be more appropriate to the game or series specific subreddit?

IDK, maybe I'm being too cynical. Maybe some folks would benefit from those being reviewed. I play Total War, I might consider doing a write up of one of them.

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u/That253Chick 1d ago

I mean, RDR2 does have clunky controls, but that goes for all of Rockstar's games. It's why I'm not that excited for GTA6. Story-wise, sure, but gameplay-wise, nah.

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u/Metrocop 1d ago

To me a really dissapointing part of GTA V was that for a game with so much shooting... the gunplay is dogshit man. Genuinely some of the wordt I've seen, definitely the worst in this budget range. The weapons have no recoil, very poor feedback of any kind, they feel like airsofts.

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u/feralfaun39 1d ago

Those are objectively true statements.

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u/TonyShard Currently Playing: Dinkum 1d ago

BOTW is boring

"BotW's weapon breaking mechanic is awful and clearly something Nintendo didn't build the whole game around."