Jumpin said:
It's obvious why this game has been successful despite the backlash it received.
1. The backlash came from the culture warrior “left†which caused a stir around this game, resulting in significant negative publicity.
2. However, on the other side of the culture war is the much larger culture warrior “right†that take negative publicity from the culture warrior left as the most positive publicity possible.
3. In short, the game has become a flash point between these two opposing culture warrior clans.
4. The culture warrior right has taken it upon themselves to support this game what could be considered just another mediocre Harry Potter game (what is it, like 190 of these now?) pretending it to be one of the greatest games ever made.
5. Now, the game is all that the culture warriors can discuss, leading to loads of free advertisement of good quality when the only noteworthy aspect of the game would otherwise be its unfortunate name, “Hogwarts,†a name it shares with a slang term for HPV.
I put the “left†and “right†of these groups in quotes, because they are concerned more with contentious political issues and alignment with the ideological left or the ideological right is more coincidental. They trade different issues back and forth all the time. If the culture war left truly held Marxist beliefs, they would not give much weight to J.K. Rowling's outlier opinions. Marxism is concerned with populations rather than individuals, and Rowling is on the losing side of history when it comes to this issue. The general trend far outweighs any impact she could possibly have. She’s not relevant.
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The game is successful because it's the Harry Potter game the fandom always dreamed to have, one more focused in living in Hogwarts as a student, attending to classes and freely exploring the castle mysteries. It something no game in franchise was able to emulate yet. Harry Potter has a huge fandom, I'm talking about dozens of millions of fans. I'm seeing even people who don't play video games often buying and playing this one, because it was literally their childhood dream.
I was a huge Harry Potter fan until a couple of years ago, and I spent around 22 years of my life waiting for today. This kind of connection far outweighs any negative feeling I have towards JK rowlling opinions about transgender community
Aside of that, this is the kind of game that is the perfect bait for normies who buy games once a year and don't follow either gaming outlets nor Twitter news about JK Rowlling. It's built on top of a huge IP, it's pretty, story focused and fairly easy.
A similar effect from world of mouth of games like Spider Man is likely. Give it a couple of months and some price cuts and Warner have a very obvious 20 million+ seller in their hands.
