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Hogwarts Legacy to be Steam Deck Verified at launch

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For Harry Potter fans, the upcoming release of Hogwarts Legacy is fast approaching and it seems they're making sure it works on Steam Deck. Well, that might be a bit of a stretch, they might have just loaded it up to see if it works, but the result to players is the same.

When asked about the status of it on Twitter, the official WB Games Support account noted "We reached out to the Hogwarts Legacy team for you and were able to confirm that the game WILL be Steam Deck verified on launch. We hope this helps with your decision! Take care." — good news for anyone who plans to pick it up. Being Steam Deck Verified almost always means it will work well on desktop Linux too.

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Hogwarts Legacy is an open-world action RPG set in the world first introduced in the Harry Potter books. Embark on a journey through familiar and new locations as you explore and discover magical beasts, customize your character and craft potions, master spell casting, upgrade talents and become the wizard you want to be.

Experience Hogwarts in the 1800s. Your character is a student who holds the key to an ancient secret that threatens to tear the wizarding world apart. Make allies, battle Dark wizards, and ultimately decide the fate of the wizarding world. Your legacy is what you make of it. Live the Unwritten.

Available for pre-order on Humble Store and Steam.

Something to be aware of though, are all the issues surrounding the Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling. An article on Forbes goes through some of it and goes into better detail than I can. Comments on it are open, as long as people don’t throw around insults at each other, respectful debate is fine.

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TheSHEEEP Jan 14, 2023
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Quoting: melkemindThat's why "cancel culture" isn't a real thing, and everyone who has supposedly been "cancelled" is still rich and powerful.
Sorry, but that's not true.

There are numerous cases of "small time" folk who were just working some random low-pay job that got fired for daring to follow the wrong people, have an opinion someone didn't like entirely unrelated to their job, or was just rumoured to.
Really tame stuff nowhere near whatever JKR puts out on a regular basis nowadays.

Cancel culture is entirely a real thing, but it depends on the individual victims of it how much of an effect it actually has on them. Someone with wealth obviously won't be affected much, but that doesn't mean they didn't get cancelled.
And some have - in hindsight - actually benefitted from it, for sure. I'd say Hogwards Legacy will most likely benefit a lot from all the crybullies drumming up drama and riling up people in support of the game. At least that's what it currently looks like.

But if you define "cancelled" only as something successfully ending someone's entire existence / oust them from public life forever, then you are seeing things way too narrow and ignore what some people went through, often without really doing anything to deserve such extreme harassment.
Even an unsuccessful cancellation is still a cancellation - the outcome does not define what it is, the act does. And the act is always a vile attempt at suppressing someone('s opinion) or anything even remotely connected to it.


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Klaas Jan 14, 2023
Quoting: ljrkscotsmen will gladly sport "skirts"

I don't think that Scots like their kilts being called skirts. Even with quotes.
MayeulC Jan 14, 2023
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Quoting: KlaasI only like the first four books. The rest is rather ridiculous since she thinks that randomly executing characters and a racist teacher employing physical torture on a child equals mature story.
Huh, I've never read the books. Recently bought the movie pack in 4k... and got about 2.5 movies into it and then paused for a while. Not that they aren't watchable (pretty sure I've seen up to 5 at one point), I just have more things to do that I'd rather spend my time on... Eventually I'll get to all of them.

I really liked the Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality fanfic. Not sure I can enjoy vanilla HP (such as this) after reading that.
I started reading that. Ehhhhh . . . I wasn't as impressed with it as it was with itself.

To each their own :) Yes, HP can come across as a bit full of himself in that story sometimes, but that's part of the story... which is great, full of surprises without Ex Machina (as in, the reader is given enough understanding of the world to anticipate possible actions, which is generally not the case with vanilla HP). I like that some things are explained, others have clearly defined mechanisms, and the character asks himself the same questions (and more) that I do when coming across something new.

To quote the author:

QuoteThis fic is widely considered to have really hit its stride starting at around Chapter 5. If you still don't like it after Chapter 10, give up.
jonahhw Jan 14, 2023
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Quoting: jonahhwI'm disappointed as always at the number of people who just don't care about how toxic the HP series is and how willing many are to give it extra publicity. Is it really worth indirectly donating to anti-lgbt hate groups just so that you can play a game where you quell a rebellion that seeks freedom for the goblins, one group of intelligent magical creatures whose oppression is consistently celebrated by the books and series as a whole?
uhhh, what?

There's a video that's pretty relevant here (it goes over a lot of the problems with Harry Potter, and there's a good chance that, if you watch it, you'll never be able to think about HP the same way again). However, a few examples of the terrible ways that the HP series treats non-humans follows:
  • House elves are said to enjoy being enslaved, and Hermione (the only character to ever question this) is mocked for thinking that enslaving them is bad.
Hang on, hang on!!!! I've read only part of the series, but I've read that bit. She isn't mocked by, as it were, the author's voice. She's mocked by many other characters (much as every sort of halfway serious progressive activist is mocked in real life, anti-slavery ones having certainly been no exception), but she perseveres despite adversity and in the end does manage to free the house elf character, who, after taking some time to assimilate the notion due to a very traditionalist outlook (and, hard to be sure, perhaps censoring himself because he knows it would be unwise not to), comes round to valuing freedom. I believe in later books that I haven't read, a movement has begun to try to free house elves.
So no, what you're saying is totally the opposite of what is going on in the book. It's presenting the difficulty of doing the right thing--but it's definitely presenting it as the right thing.

As to the giants . . . It's pretty clear that there are many ways the existing dispensation in the Potter books is seen as far from perfect and even pretty bad. Just, not as bad as bleedin' Voldemort. I don't think having some group so upset at being discriminated against by the current government that they join the definitive bad guy just to change the situation, can be considered the book saying it's good to discriminate against people. And it's the kind of thing that definitely happens in real life--how many people with real problems and grievances have been taken in by vile charlatans giving them false promises, in just the last few years of world politics?

Rowling has a very bad thing about her politics. Maybe she's got others. But I think it's wrong to go around inventing ones because of course everything else about her has to be bad now.

The author's voice isn't directly a thing in HP, so yeah, Hermione isn't mocked by the author's voice. Instead, the story itself implies that she's wrong. Harry (who acts as an audience insert when it comes to many aspects of the wizarding world) starts out neutral on the issue. However, as the subplot goes on, Harry is convinced that Hermione is wrong and the rest of the wizards (who want to keep house elves in slavery) are right. Furthermore, a lot of the stereotypes that are used to mock feminists are applied to Hermione in this subplot. It's implied by the story that she is acting on behalf of people who don't want her help, she's treated as just an annoyance (rather than someone with good points) by everyone she talks to, and even the name of the organization she starts ("SPEW") is clearly intended to be considered a joke by the reader. Hermione doesn't free any house elves, and Dobby (who was freed by Harry) is treated as an exception to the house elves as a whole for not wanting to be enslaved. Later in the story, Harry comes to own a house elf, whom he does not free. (The story encourages him to be a "nice slave owner" rather than freeing his slave.) There is no movement for the freedom of house elves after the book forgets about SPEW. With all of these claims you're making, I'm not sure we read the same books.

Having people be oppressed so hard they join the bad guy isn't something that makes the books bad on its own. The problem is that the books treat the system (that's so bad it lead oppressed groups to join the bad guy) as if it's mostly fine, just needing a few "good men" in charge to fix everything. Furthermore, the book treats the giants, werewolves, and the like as completely in the wrong for joining voldemort. It doesn't take the time to discuss how the oppression faced by the wizards' government caused them to go down that path, and it doesn't talk about what changes they're going to put in place to make sure that this never happens again. Starting, or even ending, with the world in a terribly oppressive state isn't bad in and of itself, but the problems with the world need to be discussed by the book; the people framed as good by the narrative need to question the system rather than trusting that the old government will make everything better again.

This problem the book has with always looking at things from the system's point of view (not the view of those who are oppressed by the system) makes it extra bad that the player will be tasked with taking down a goblin rebellion. I don't think the game will encourage the player to think about why the goblins are rebelling - it will most likely just tell the player that the goblins are bad and to kill them. This is a big problem, because a lot of times in real life, people who rebel have good reasons for doing so. Consider groups like the Black Panthers, who were told by the white liberals that, instead of rebelling against the system, they should work within the system to get the change they wanted. They have since made up their own version of history, where Black liberation has been "fully achieved" by the efforts of asking nicely. However, the system was never designed to listen to marginalized people, so peaceful protest would never have seen any improvements on its own. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. himself wrote:

QuoteI must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

JK Rowling's work is dripping with that "negative peace" that MLK describes. The government which will hide the problems with society is seen as better than the activists or revolutionaries who would expose it, and, in the books, the main characters fight only to restore that government, not to fix (or even think about) the very serious problems that it had. Hermione's fight to stop the enslavement of house elves is seen as bad by the books because it calls attention to a problem that would be much more convenient to ignore.
Liam Dawe Jan 14, 2023
I think it's probably for the best to close this up now. Thanks all.
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