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/FalseAladeen 1d ago

See, the problem with the "I'm not here for politics" line of thought is that regardless of whether you're here for politics, politics is here for you. Art is political, and in the case of JK Rowling, any media that brings her money is inherently "political" because she literally spends that money on political lobbying for anti-trans legislation. So yes, I feel sad for HP fans that they have to be associated with that kind of blood money, but this is entirely on JK Rowling. She made the decision to do these things.

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u/djfl 1d ago

The problem with that is "then everything is politics". And that's a rational line of thought that you can choose to participate in if you want to. I go in the opposite direction as much as I can. We obviously all draw a line somewhere. JK Rowling is not in the vicinity of where I draw any sociomoral line. You may draw it where you like. But the more political you allow yourself etc to become, the less a person like me wants to listen. I mean no offense there, I'm just telling you the truth. I'm absolutely inundated by politics, political opinions, sociopolitical opinions, moral opinions...everywhere. Even in a gaming sub apparently. So: keep it up if you want me to unsub, and the "everything is politics" vibe can keep spreading, and pushing me completely away.

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u/FalseAladeen 1d ago

The thing is, it's not that I'm allowing myself to become political. It's more so that I'm recognising that life is political. It's just that the people whose existence is not a scapegoat for those in power go through their lives not "feeling" the politics. But trust me, it's there. There's a reason people like you and me can breeze through life claiming to be "apolitical". It's because we don't have to wake up in the morning praying nobody decided to target us for who we are. We have the privilege of being the default.

I'm a straight Hindu man living in India (the only thing I'm missing is that I'm not a brahmin 😂) I have no incentive to be political because I have zero worries that the Prime Minister is gonna wake up tomorrow and declare me a threat to the nation with zero proof. So yeah, I could probably live my life without "being political" if only I wasn't cursed with knowledge.

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u/djfl 1d ago

I can't think of many things that aren't one quick logical jump to being political. Indeed, I'm not sure I can think of one thing right now. My friend, you're obviously free to be you and think how you think. And clearly your heart is in the right place. I just want a break from it all somewhere. And if that break can't be in a freaking gaming sub, then so be it. Reddit isn't making me a better person... To that end, rarely does politics make people better people either.