Comment on Warner Bros. Cancels Planned ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Game Expansion
3xBork@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoThere’s about a thousand and one other people involved with the franchise after 8 movies, 3 spinoff movies, a play and a dozen or so videogames.
Rowling is pretty much irrelevant and people aren’t into the HP stuff because they particularly want to give her money.
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
She is directly benefitting from the sales and people buying Harry Potter stuff know that.
3xBork@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah so are about a thousand other people who worked on the franchise/product in question and may be very positive influences on the world.
Trying to deny a literal billionaire money is symbolic at best.
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Do you feel the same about boycotting Tesla?
SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If you are a fan of HP your choices are few and far between. If you are a fan of electric cars there are tons of better options that you can choose from. Adding on to that, the level of investment in both are orders of magnitude apart. What’s more, Tesla as a company has a reputation of having lots of issues of racism and misogyny in the workplace. I think the two are different enough that one can buy the blame and boycott Tesla without any hypocrisy.
3xBork@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t because they’re not really comparable.
There are many other electrics cars, many of them better and/or cheaper and entirely interchangable. Boycotting Tesla just means getting a direct substitute instead. There aren’t any substitutes for HP games because the IP itself is the whole point.
Another point where they’re not comparable: Tesla isn’t the problem here, Elon is and he needs to go. And he can be gotten rid of, which is the entire point of the boycot. Meanwhile, there is no mechanism legal or otherwise to remove Rowling from the equation. The only thing boycotting HP products achieves is making the companies involved fail and preventing any further HP products from being developed. So what does that achieve?
So: given that boycotting Tesla is both easy and effective, while boycotting HP is a personal sacrifice for no real effect, surely you see the difference?
Firipu@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
Tesla has a ceo that is arguably evil, his companies flaunt labour laws and he is actively trying to make the world a worse place through multiple means.
The HP writer makes mean tweets and complains women use her bathroom.
Both are bad people, but not even remotely at the same level.