• rumba@lemmy.zip
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    10 hours ago

    They continue to throw money at JK Rowling

    YMMV, but in my ‘woke’ crowd, nobody’s buying that merch anymore. The only people I know still doing harry potter themed crap all voted rightwing.

    The last thing I saw come through was the game. A few of the left-leaning gamers bought it but way less than baulders and starfield.

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      10 hours ago

      This, in my circle the only Harry Potter merch I see people rocking is either at least a decade old or was bought at a convention at a booth selling fanmade merch.

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      10 hours ago

      Hogwarts legacy was a major success. Almost a million players the first day of launch and that’s only on steam.

      Even now, that 2 years old game has more people playing it than Avowed which just launched relatively recently LMAO 🤣. Again, that’s only on steam.

      Iw we added PSN and Nintendo, it would totally crush it

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        5 hours ago

        It certainly didn’t launch to crickets. But I could have had millions more players s***** ass worldviews to herself

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        10 hours ago

        To be fair JK had nothing to do with that, that was all Avalanche Studios… and someone actually crunched the numbers and literally JK gets more in a single day of Universal Studios ticket sales than she did from lifetime sales of that game.