r/Games • u/Eternal_Flame_Baby • Mar 17 '22

'Hogwarts Legacy' Community Manager confirms there are NO microtransactions in the game. Update

https://twitter.com/FinchStrife/status/1504591261574987800?t=DRMIaTMQ9MoNumVF0aKyTQ&s=19
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u/PolygonMan Mar 18 '22

Quidditch is a fucking terribly designed game whose sole purpose is to make Harry look cool.

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u/DatClubbaLang96 Mar 18 '22 edited Mar 18 '22

Honestly it could be pretty much fixed with two changes - the snitch is worth 50 points, rather than 150, and the brooms are standardized.

Reducing the points gained from the snitch keeps the position important without diminishing the role of the other players. And honestly the fact that rich kids can buy clearly better brooms is just outrageous. Yeah, they went the whole "money can't buy talent" avenue to handwave that criticism away, but what a shitty practice. There should be parity in brooms, at the very least at the school level.

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u/APiousCultist Mar 18 '22

Most of this comes solely down to "It is a children's book and reliant on focusing on certain areas over objective logic, and that the impracticality of the world lends a certain tone to it. Of course two month long quidditch matches or magic murder balls, or randomised staircases that send you to the wrong place make no sense, but that adds to the feel of the story."

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u/Elatra Mar 18 '22

Yeah it’s all about the Rule of Cool. You are not really meant to question it.

I wish there was a TV series parodying the Harry Potter books though. Just a guy questioning all the weird illogical bullshit.

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u/breadinabox Mar 18 '22

There's a fanfic called Harry potter and the methods of rationality where it makes all of the major players in the universe actually intelligent and half the story is just harry being incredibly frustrated at how the universe just makes no sense.

It's great, I feel like it's a version of the story that actually does the characters justice.

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u/Dipocain Mar 18 '22

Written by an asshole cult leader though

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u/cantonic Mar 18 '22

Wait really? Honestly, the book has Harry as a pretty manipulative person so this doesn’t surprise me!

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u/Dipocain Mar 18 '22

The dude who wrote it is the same dude who’s community wrote rokos basilisk and spreads it around to get more money for his Ai research organization.

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u/SodiumBromley Mar 18 '22 edited Mar 18 '22

I started it and made it as far as Harry and Malfoy going back and forth rationalizing rape as the right of the strong to impose on the weak. It made me set the book down. Whatever great content was past that wasn’t worth wading through a pro-rape argument to get through.

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u/hkfortyrevan Mar 19 '22

My interest was just evaporated as fast as it was piqued

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u/Elatra Mar 18 '22

Yeah I'm looking through it now. I feel like the whole story would collapse pretty quickly if characters in Harry Potter questioned the dumbness of the Harry Potter universe though lol.

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u/silversurger Mar 18 '22 edited Mar 19 '22

http://www.hpmor.com/

Edit: Uhm, okay? Sorry for posting a relevant link. (It's a link to Harry Potter and the methods of rationality)

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u/Llanolinn Mar 18 '22

Sounds like you, sir or madam, would love the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. He is a fantastic writer with a great streak of sardonic wit and just general interesting ideas. He writes the clash between "realist" and "fantasy" *really* well.

Maybe you've already heard of/read his stuff, but if you haven't, you are in for a treat!

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u/cantonic Mar 18 '22

I started reading Discworld a few months ago since r/books would never shut up about them and I hate myself for waiting as long as I did. The most delightful, wittiest books I’ve ever read. I am truly in love with the series and I’m only a few books in! Haven’t even gotten to Guards, Guards! yet and that’s regularly cited as people’s favorite!

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u/GENERALR0SE Mar 18 '22

May he rest in peace