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[Draugoth]

https://web.archive.org/web/20230210135608/https://www.wired.com/review/hogwarts-legacy-review/

A journalist from Wired has given Hogwarts Legacy a score of 1/10 to deliberately thwart its success and hamper it's score on Metacritic/Opencritic. It's very likely other game media outlets will follow.

 

[Freeman76]

Ridiculous, the game is amazing.

This is such a stupid move on their part, aside from all the politics it makes them look completely incompetent to anyone with any sense.

They should be blacklisted from MC for this, it's clearly not games journalism but pandering.

 

[Imtjnotu]

the game is fun as fuck

its one of the most polished 3rd party releases in years

the combat is fun

exploring the world is fun

everything seems to be a living breathing world

idk who TF this game hurts.

 

[Fake]

Kinda expected.

 

[Lupin3]

A journalist from Wired has given Hogwarts Legacy a score of 1/10 to deliberately thwart its success and hamper it's score on Metacritic/Opencritic.

 

[feynoob]

Eat shit.
Game is good.

 

[DeepEnigma]

And the person they gave the review to, normally reviews sex toys. To review a children's game.

You can't make this shit up.

 

[YukiOnna]

"The game is mid at best" - You went through a diploma/degree to put that out?

You know, I trust Famitsu scores more these days...

 

[SLB1904]

 

[Bartski]

real-world harms

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Holy shit you have to be fucking kidding me. If I wanted to write a parody of woke "journalism" I couldn't make it more ridiculous than this.

^ there's the first paragraph if you're looking for a good laugh

 

[DeepEnigma]

^ there's the first paragraph if you're looking for a good laugh

 

[Putonahappyface]

 

[HarryKS]

Some editor approved this. Ha.

 

[FalsettoVibe]

Idiot journalism at its finest. Don't give them click's.

 

[Elios83]

Lol idiotic and unprofessional, just refuse to review it if you're coherent. In this way they're using the game to get hits anyway.
Hypocrisy is such a bad thing.

 

[StueyDuck]

Do we have an official death's caused by hogwarts legacy tracker yet...

Just a perpetual 0 on a static page

 

[Irobot82]

^ there's the first paragraph if you're looking for a good laugh

The only thing getting heavy is the author of that article.

 

[DeepEnigma]

I'm going to have to steal this, sorry!

 

[Spyxos]

I hope those fucks are not counted at metacritics.

 

[nial]

>real-world harms
haha

 

[EverythingsOverrated]

To be honest, I actually expected a lot more of this from games media. I thought we were going to see these along with no scores at all, but it seems like the major outlets probably got the idea that if they were to do that WB probably wouldn't give access anymore.

 

[Interfectum]

The author:

 

[Robb]

Unprofessional, but it is what it is. I just find it hilarious that they actually put something like this out.

Might backfire as good marketing though, this just makes me want to buy the game even more.

 

[winjer]

And now people know they should not visit Wired for information.

 

[thebigmanjosh]

The only real-world harm is me getting the ending spoiled by checking the writer's twitter account

 

[FalsettoVibe]

To be honest, I actually expected a lot more of this from games media. I thought we were going to see these along with no scores at all, but it seems like the major outlets probably got the idea that if they were to do that WB probably wouldn't give access anymore.

I hope WB never ever sends anyone who woke reviewed this game review copies of any of their upcoming games.

 

[solidus12]

The author:

Needs to slow down on them biggot sandwiches

 

[Urban]

so brave

 

[FalsettoVibe]

The author:

Of course.....
They all have that "look"

 

[Flabagast]

LMAO, this reads like a parody.

 

[winjer]

"Jaina Rodriguez Grey is a product writer and reviewer at WIRED covering coffee, sex tech, and gaming."

She should just stick to reviewing sex toys, and leave games for professionals.

 

[Punished Miku]

The author:

You wouldn't think they were that fast. Incredible! I guess that just goes to show that you should never judge a book by its cover. Haven't seen speed like that since DBZ.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

She(?) is also their resident sex toy reviewer

 

[Osthyvel]

 

[Ar¢tos]

And the person they gave the review to, normally reviews sex toys. To review a children's game.

You can't make this shit up.

It's not his or hers or whatevers fault that they don't make sex toys for children, I'm sure he/she/whatever would review them too!

/jk

 

[DeepEnigma]

She(?) is also their resident sex toy reviewer

So a kid goes on to read the Wired review and see all the hub-bub since more and more kids are alert to trends, etc... clicks on the author and is inundated by sex toys.

Good job, clowns.

 

[Putonahappyface]

Needs to slow down on them biggot sandwiches

Or eat a snicker.

 

[roosnam1980]

 

[MiguelItUp]

Further proof that "games journalism" is dead in some cases, and dying in others. Which is a great thing, IMO. Especially if journalists can't separate their personal beliefs and a video game they're reviewing.

This article is so stupid, and the sad part is people are going to give them clicks. Which is exactly what they want.

 

[RavageX]

This has inspired me to become a games journalist. If people can get paid to do this, I should able to for actually focusing on the games themselves....you know, doing the job correctly?

 

[Gudji]

She(?) is also their resident sex toy reviewer

No dildo magic wand on the wizard game?

 

[ChiefDada]

Oh c'mon if you're going to have this attitude about it then recuse yourself from reviewing the game! What purpose does this serve?

 

[Banjo64]

If anyone has the time to compile a list of major outlets that have acted in this way (or boycotted the game) I'd love to see it so I can make sure I never accidentally click on their websites again.

 

[mrmustard]

The small group of crying internet keyboard warriors keep winning. I want the 80s and 90s back.

 

[Klik]

She should be fired. No journalist can write objective article with agenda in mind

 

[Fuz]

Metacritic/Opencritic should ban wired from now on.

 

[analog_future]

This shit has become so absurd.

I'm all for trans rights but I also understand that buying a fucking videogame doesn't matter one way or the other.

It's been said ad nauseam but these same people that are boycotting the game are using their child-labor built phones to Tweet about it on Elon Musk's social media platform to link to their articles on an AWS hosted website, owned by Amazon who's notorious for union-busting and extremely poor labor conditions. All while playing other games on Steam, Xbox, and Playstation, all of whom are promoting and/or have promotional deals to make money off of Hogwarts Legacy themselves.

It's all performative bullshit. These same people had no issue when all the big review publications reviewed Top Gun Maverick or Mission:Impossible despite Tom Cruise being the leader of a violent cult that's covered up sexual abuse, blackmailed members from speaking out, and continues to protect violent and sexual abusers to this day. Where was the big boycott then?

It's completely hypocritical and frankly exhausting. And it's created this weird make-believe divide where if you don't buy Hogwarts you care about trans people, and if you do buy Hogwarts, you must be a transphobic bigot.

Nope.

I support trans rights AND I love Harry Potter and purchased Hogwarts Legacy. And you can fuck right off if you think you're better than me because of that.

 

[Revolutionary]

The author:

 

[Mibu no ookami]

The only real-world harm is me getting the ending spoiled by checking the writer's twitter account

What a complete piece of shit.