I'm very curious to see what happens with this sales-wise. The time for a successful high budget Harry Potter RPG, IMO, was 10-6 years ago, after the conclusion of the mainline movies (but not so long that they faded from public consciousness), buttressed by the new class of media like the first fantastic beasts movie, and relatively unplagued by Rowling's terfery and the critical analysis of the books it inspired. Now their new movies are dead in the water and Rowling is fairly radioactive compared to her previous reputation.
Is there a new school of Harry Potter fans that I'm missing, the same way that Pokemon keeps hooking in little kids? All I see are rapidly ageing Disney Adult types.
The Disney Adults keep buying the products for their very small children, kind of like how Star Wars survived during the "VHS era" with the exception that the kids actually liked star trek.
Also never forget that most people don't follow "the discourse" and while they might make approving noises about trans people occasionally don't know any (open) trans people.
Case in point, a fairly trad Catholic Church had to my knowledge 5 open trans/nb people in it. None of the congregation knew (save a few leftist holdouts) because they either came there after their transition or were heavily closeted when coming to church but no where else.
There is a supposed counter-boycott where chuds are just buying the game to own the libs. I haven't even really heard talk of an organized boycott in the first place - just a bunch of people independently saying "I'm not playing that" - so I've got to assume it's just marketing bullshit.
I'm very curious to see what happens with this sales-wise. The time for a successful high budget Harry Potter RPG, IMO, was 10-6 years ago, after the conclusion of the mainline movies (but not so long that they faded from public consciousness), buttressed by the new class of media like the first fantastic beasts movie, and relatively unplagued by Rowling's terfery and the critical analysis of the books it inspired. Now their new movies are dead in the water and Rowling is fairly radioactive compared to her previous reputation.
Is there a new school of Harry Potter fans that I'm missing, the same way that Pokemon keeps hooking in little kids? All I see are rapidly ageing Disney Adult types.
The Disney Adults keep buying the products for their very small children, kind of like how Star Wars survived during the "VHS era" with the exception that the kids actually liked star trek.
Also never forget that most people don't follow "the discourse" and while they might make approving noises about trans people occasionally don't know any (open) trans people.
Case in point, a fairly trad Catholic Church had to my knowledge 5 open trans/nb people in it. None of the congregation knew (save a few leftist holdouts) because they either came there after their transition or were heavily closeted when coming to church but no where else.
There is a supposed counter-boycott where chuds are just buying the game to own the libs. I haven't even really heard talk of an organized boycott in the first place - just a bunch of people independently saying "I'm not playing that" - so I've got to assume it's just marketing bullshit.