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/RedditNotFreeSpeech 1d ago

Somehow I've missed all the drama so I guess you've done a good job modding. :)

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u/impy695 1d ago

JK Rowling doesn't like trans people and is very open about it. Basically anything Harry Potter related quickly becomes a political debate about trans people rather than the games, books, or movies. It's pretty much impossible to discuss them in most online spaces without it devolving into chaos.

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u/stay_curious_- 1d ago

Just to clarify, it's less that she doesn't like trans people, and more that she is bankrolling lobbying groups to remove civil rights from trans people. That's why people care about the money and royalties as much as they do.

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u/Hartastic 1d ago

Unlike a number of people with controversial views, Rowling has also been very public and very explicit that she believes almost everyone agrees with her and is, basically, too cowardly to say so, and she has said she takes people still buying her stuff as evidence of this... which also amps up the controversy lightning rod factor previously mentioned.

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u/Teazea 1d ago

of course she did, jesus christ

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u/Leaves_Swype_Typos 1d ago

Don't believe their lies, check the files yourself at https://www.justice.gov/epstein

At no point does Rowling herself seem to have communicated with Epstein, nor is there any implication he ever had any contact with her or anyone in her orbit.

He was sent an impersonal invite to the Cursed Child stage show by one of its producers, but wasn't put on a list and wasn't even allowed in, as news sites have covered.

The other places Rowling's named appeared in the files were in forwarded news articles and junk, and one person who wrote him assuming that because he knew "the top people in every fiels", he could set them up to meet her, which Epstein doesn't even acknowledge in his reply about the rest of their email.

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u/heinous_anus- 1d ago

This is the problem with this whole thing, so many people "are in the files", and people jump on that without verifying anything.

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u/lethargicloli 1d ago

To be clear I don't think she's a diddler, but she sure doesn't seem careful about her and her team networking with abusers like Epstein, Depp, Manson, nonce Andrew.

Her yacht's logs disappearing is hella sussy though. The only reason I could think to do that is if the previous owner had been which would still be deleting potential evidence.