Hogwarts Legacy

I haven't started the final main quest thing yet, but I completed most of the challenges while working on quests. All I have left are dueling feats and side quests, aside from the main quest.

Which, I may need to up the difficulty. I've been playing in "story" mode, and some of the dueling feats are difficult when I can one-hit most enemies. Also, being able to one-hit entire groups of enemies if I aim carefully kind of makes Aveda Kedavra pointless.

Not really surprising. The game has two things going for it: quests, and exploring shit.

Quests: There's a finite number of them, and it takes a finite amount of time to complete them.

Exploration: Very fun at first, and while none of the various puzzles are super-difficult, they do take some thought and trial and error to figure out. Although, once said puzzles are figured out, they become repetitive and boring very quickly. Once one hits the level cap, they've pretty much experienced the whole game. There will probably be a spike in popularity if/when they release DLC, followed by a steep decline once people complete said DLC.

If the developers are smart the DLC will include more house-specific content. As it is, there's one quest that's different depending on house, and that's really not enough to justify doing four play throughs. Although, seems like everyone wants a quiddich DLC, which, the controls for broom flight are terrible. Luckily on PC I can reconfigure them, and after four or five attempts, I found something that works well enough. Still, the controls are too clunky to try adding stuff like throwing kerfuffles and beating off chasers or whatever.

I know you think this is some type of “own”, but the story of the game is pretty short. It’s been about a month since the game was released and most people have played through it already so no surprise there’s a drop off.

What conservatives and anti-trans people don't understand among HP fans is that we can still enjoy that world JK Rowling created without having to put more money in her pocket. and it doesn't matter how much you like games or how much you want to support JK Rowling, if you're not a fan of the genre, you're not going to like the game. If you just like games or D&D type fantasy, you may or may not enjoy the game. But, regardless of whether or not the game is successful, it doesn't mean anyone is "owning" liberals.

What you don’t get is he posted that graphic thinking it means the liberals won or whatever. Of course that’s assuming that graphic is even real or accurate.

Won what?

If anti trans wanted to give the impression the game, and by extension JK Rowling, is successful by buying the game and logging in from the get go, they were stupid.

If Rowling suddenly 20/30 +/- years after writing the first book wants to increase floundering sales by taking a stance that on the surface appears to align with a segment of the population that previously intentionally excluded her, thinking they will suddenly accept her stories as they are and start buying books, she is doing some super drugs and I want some.

The pro-trans people or anti-JKR people, whatever you want to call them, have been trying to get people to boycott this game. @Tuckerfan is a hardcore leftist and sides with the trans community and hardly ever posts in Press Start so it’s pretty obvious to me at least why he posted that graphic and it’s pretty obvious he thinks it indicates that the boycott movement worked except people who have actually played the game are saying why the drop off is happening and it’s not for the reasons he thinks it is.

Except that's not what happens in games - at least, not to that extent. and seriously, why would "twitch" users even be playing it anyway? This is the opposite of what you are saying. This definitely is saying that the push to make Hogwarts Legacy a successful game failed immensely.

Um.. it made almost a billion dollars so far. I’d say it’s a financial success.

if that's what you count as success, then I guess anti-trans wins. good on you.

What other parameters would you like to set? It being a financial success is the only one that really matters.

but, it's not.

Zelda. is a success. Came out in the early 80s. every new iteration of that game sells.

Fallout franchise is also a success despite the abysmal shitstorm of the Fallout 76 launch.

Hogwarts Legacy never will have that kind of success. it was never meant to. it's a child's game and attempting to put political bullshit on it only makes it less successful than it might have been.

Oh. Hey! YOu're right. Hogwarts Legacy is a success and therefore, trans athletes must immediately be put to death.

Whoa!

Then please explain the point FF is attempting to make.

So, what you're saying is that the game quickly reached market saturation levels and that it has a low replayability index when compared to other games. I don't know about all of that. The market saturation point seems kind of low for a multi-billion dollar franchise that was a cultural juggernaut for over a decade. And the lack of replayability is really puzzling. I know that when I was in the target demo age group of the HP franchise, any time I got a new thing tied to a particular franchise I was fascinated with, I was obsessed with it for months. If I got a game, I'd replay it over and over, even if there wasn't a lot to explore in the game. There were always ways I could try to have fun with it. I'd try and see how far I could go in the game without accomplishing an objective, or I'd see what would happen if I tried to do things that were totally against the game's rules for play. So, instead of being the "nice guy" in the game, I'd try to kill everything, or I'd try to run through the game in record time. The really cool thing would be doing something and finding a glitch in the game.

That was well before the interwebs, so I couldn't look up things about the game (or whatever) and I couldn't access vast swarms of people who were doing the same thing as me and might have figured it out before I did.

You make the game sound like one of those Hollywood movies that opens to a huge box office and then drops off because it turns out that the film sucks and everyone who saw it on opening weekend warned their friends not to waste their money.

TBF, before the internet you couldn't have scores of games sitting in your Steam library, waiting for you to finish your current game and turn attention to them.