Not tagging this spoiler cause fuck TERFs, don't buy the game, uphold TC69 Thought etc. Have gotten this all from the above article and reviews that support it.
Yep, anti-semitic, slave-owning, Protocols of Zion plagiarising, let's join the anti-goblin pogrom game.
Yes the MacGuffin unambiguously belongs to the Goblins, who have a labour theory of ownership. No you can't join the Goblins. Yes you kill a bunch of them. Yes, there is a fucking quisling that's seen as good actually. Yes, every teacher thinks fighting the goblins is a good thing, despite a few token missions that apparently show how oppressed they are.
No, you never critique that this and every other aspect of the wizard world might be a bad thing.
I am once again calling for the House Elves to rise up, slit every slaver-wizard throat in Hogwarts, and place their heads on pikes outside the entrance as a warning to the others.
Don't. Buy. The TERF. Game.
I hope so and hope you're right, but I just don't see it. Harry Potter is too big an IP.
We'll see with the sales figures of the new game.
I think the game will do well but that's gonna be because people buy it on thirst alone. They've been thirsting for this forever. Much like something like Cyberpunk. I'm not that interested in how this game does but in the impact on sentiment and attitudes towards buying anything from the franchise in future.
The fanbase skews female too, which is important as mothers tend to be the purchase decision-makers when it comes to children at home.