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[LiquidMetal14]

JK Rowling wenguardian lenovoiosa'd her ass to the top!

 

[RainblowDash]

Harry Potter was more or less a global phenomenon, so these sales aren’t surprising.

 

[ergem]

It is a fantastic game. Well deserved.

In my all time top 3. Can’t get enough of it.

 

[onQ123]

Harry Potter was more or less a global phenomenon, so these sales aren’t surprising.

No other Harry Potter game has sold even close to this well . Also his name is nowhere near the game but of course fans know but this is unprecedented.

 

[Macattk15]

It's Harry Potter ... was this not expected?

 

[recma12]

It's Harry Potter ... was this not expected?

They were gonna move units either way. Even Avengers and Gotham Knights did that despite lukewarm reviews.

Thing is, from the footage they shown I didn't expect Hogwarts to be this good. I kinda expected this to land somehwere in the 70s on metacritic.
But to my surprise HL up there with the Arkham games and Spiderman in terms of "this is how you do a licensed game".
I would actually recommend this game to anyone, even if you have no clue what "muggle" means.

Really solid AAA open world game.

 

[rofif]

It’s huge. Even my casual “i’like witcher3 coworkers” have played it. And they are comparing it to witcher3 lol

 

[Cyberpunkd]

In France, HL first week sales were bigger than the ER's 2022 total sales

Allez les Bleus!

 

[xiskza]

TERFS won

 

[DavidGzz]

Miyazaki getting J.K Rowling to write the backstory of his next game confirmed. Imagine the triggering over yonder.

 

[RoboFu]

It's Harry Potter ... was this not expected?

No other Harry Potter game sold like this. Even the decent Lego games.
It’s definitely a mix of being in the HP world and an actually great game.

 

[artsi]

It’s huge. Even my casual “i’like witcher3 coworkers” have played it. And they are comparing it to witcher3 lol

At my work everyone who are into gaming are talking about Hogwarts, it's really huge.

Meanwhile REEEE are losing their minds as they realize everyone they work with or are friends with are actually bigots and transphobes.

 

[CortexVortex]

At my work everyone who are into gaming are talking about Hogwarts, it's really huge.

Meanwhile REEEE are losing their minds as they realize everyone they work with or are friends with are actually bigots and transphobes.

Yeah it's insane. Even some of my non-gamer colleagues are about to buy it because they gew up with the Wizarding World.

 

[Airbus Jr]

The only monster here is JK Rowling.

 

[poodaddy]

The only monster here is JK Rowling.

 

[Spaceman292]

The only monster here is JK Rowling.

More like milfster if you know what I mean

 

[digdug2]

I'm not surprised that this surpassed another very well-crafted open world game that performed insanely well. Even though Elden Ring was From Software's most accessible game to date, it still had its moments where it was hard as fuck. Hogwarts seems like it's even more accessible than that.

 

[ByWatterson]

More like milfster if you know what I mean

This is violence

 

[ByWatterson]

I can't tell if you guys are fooling me or if I fooled you, LOL.

 

[DeepEnigma]

The mob came for a Harry Potter game because Rowling speaks out on gender. That’s crazy | Opinion

Attempts to cancel the famed author or any art associated with her is a sign that the future of free speech is in danger.

www.yahoo.com

Finally a decent mainstream article about the controversy.

Stripping Rowling of her art — or any art even associated with her franchise — simply because she has been an outspoken opponent of the concept of gender fluidity, specifically where it erases women’s privacy and safety rights, is truly Orwellian. Censoring or smearing Rowling and her ideas over beliefs that have been held for millennia is a bad sign for the future of free speech.

Facts.

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

That just proves how big Elden Ring launch was

 

[Coulomb_Barrier]

http://[URL]https://www.yahoo.com/news/mob-came-harry-potter-game-192832651.html

[/URL]

Finally a decent mainstream article about the controversy.

I would hardly call the spineless administrators of REE and a handful of that forum's damaged weirdos a mob. More like a handful of confused and angry nerds.

 

[mckmas8808]

Harry Potter was more or less a global phenomenon, so these sales aren’t surprising.

The game wasn't promised to be good. The devs making it didn't have some long history of making great AAA games.

 

[Mr.Phoenix]

Harry Potter was more or less a global phenomenon, so these sales aren’t surprising.

You do know there are ike15 games of the IP on consoles and PC right?

It would be doing the game a disservice to suggest it's performing well based on the popularity of the IP when none of the 14 before it managed this. Oh...none of the 14 before it also was being snubbed by some of media.

This seems more like the Streisand Effect. And that of course its a good game.

 

[mckmas8808]

Facts.

I disagree big time here. I don't think this is a bad sign of free speech at all. It proves the opposite actually. It shows how much impact social media, bloggers, and podcasters really have in the real world. It proves that sometimes we need to remember that there's a bigger world out there and to get out of our small internet world.

 

[DeepEnigma]

I disagree big time here. I don't think this is a bad sign of free speech at all. It proves the opposite actually. It shows how much impact social media, bloggers, and podcasters really have in the real world. It proves that sometimes we need to remember that there's a bigger world out there and to get out of our small internet world.

It is when certain governments are making it illegal to push back on the insanity. Like the UK, etc..

A dude served jailtime for it recently.

 

[Thebonehead]

Meanwhile on another site this hasn't happened and no records have been broken

 

[93xfan]

Wow, Hogwarts is killing it. I guess the REE Boycott is pretty much a big failure. I thought GotY would be a 2-horse race with Zelda TotK and Starfield, but it looks like Hogwarts will be up for awards as well.

Can’t wait to see how VGA handles this

 

[Spaceman292]

This is violence

No it's hot, steamy love

 

[MMaRsu]

Can’t wait to see how VGA handles this

Hopefully this bullshit will have been forgotten by then, but I wouldnt put it past dorito pope to ban it

 

[Macattk15]

Meanwhile on another site this hasn't happened and no records have been broken

Holy shit I didn't even realize they have a stickied post banning the game itself. Lol.

 

[ByWatterson]

Hopefully this bullshit will have been forgotten by then, but I wouldnt put it past dorito pope to ban it

He's pretty mainstream. I doubt he'll say much at all.

 

[Hoho for breakfast]

You do know there are ike15 games of the IP on consoles and PC right?

It would be doing the game a disservice to suggest it's performing well based on the popularity of the IP when none of the 14 before it managed this. Oh...none of the 14 before it also was being snubbed by some of media.

This seems more like the Streisand Effect. And that of course its a good game.

It's all of it imo. It's Harry Potter, it's the controversy, and also it's a very well reviewed open world AAA game. All of that combined is leading to it's ridiculous sales numbers. No other HP game has done nearly as well because they weren't well reviewed big open world AAA games. If there was zero controversy this game still would have sold millions and millions and competed with Elden Ring sales imo.

Putting the controversy on top of that is the icing on the cake for the games sales. Now it's going to do millions more just because almost everyone has at least heard of this game/the controversy surrounding it. It is the game right now and there's really nothing to compete with it which is just going to further spur sales. This has to be the worst boycott I've ever heard of. Its completely backfired.