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Hogwarts Legacy senior producer Troy Leavitt, a game dev who used to make anti-feminist and pro gamer-gate videos (staff post added)(Up: Resigns)
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I quoted my own reply from earlier in the thread, as a response to your other messages.
It's not "every name in the credits", it's the freaking director.
I agree with you and I would also like to say that I still find it bullshit that the Cyberpunk OT was allowed here after everything that had transpired up until that point in time. It was a big middle finger to the trans community here and I want the staff to correct that mistake with this game in the future.
So maybe I'm misreading your point, but aren't you saying it's no surprise that someone working on a HP game is a chud?
Hey all,
The staff is going to be talking over how to handle this game. For now, please try to keep discussion civil. We'll let everyone know once we've had a chance to have that talk.
The staff is going to be talking over how to handle this game. For now, please try to keep discussion civil. We'll let everyone know once we've had a chance to have that talk.
The guy definitely needs to be fired and replaced, and probably even investigate if his shit ideologies were snuck into the game, but firing hundreds of people during a pandemic because one guy is a piece of shit is just ridiculous and cruel.
Once again:
You think he never expressed any of these views within his workplace? You think someone this high up in the project, does not reflect in any way other higher ups views? Do you think his views never affected in any way a minority coworker's ability to work? This not just one person.
That's a good sign. Can we expect a decision a long time before the game releases?
Nice~
It's hard to divorce the lead designer from the game in this case. They have a lot of influence on aspects of it, even in subtle ways. So it's good to see that it's being talked about.
I pray the solution works much smoother this time for all sides involved.
In my old job I worked with about 200 people. About 3 or 4 people were hardcore Trump supporters, including one senior manager. Everyone else thought they were idiots, and I think a few complained to HR asking them to tone it down. Should I have been fired as well as all 200 people?
Thank you. Just learned of this right now and I honestly cannot see a reason for the game and IP to be promoted here at all.
Was your job actually doing something that would be used to harm a minority?
I ain't even all about the game being canceled.
However can we stop acting like it's just the team being affected? If this gets released, a large chunk of the money spent will go on to harm far far more than just this team when it empowered Rowling's behavior.
Dude's a lead designer, and has been working on this industry for more than a decade, it's not one person (besides, we do know a certain other shithead involved in this project y'know), it's an environment.
Edit:
And yeah, was your job something that would be used to harm minorities? This is the latest big thing on a franchise that has given a voice loud enough for one person to start having influence politically not only in their country, but many others as well.
I'm sorry but any benefit of the doubt I could give about "misreading" ends when you choose to misrepresent it the exact same way for the second time. Find someone else to construct bullshit strawmen from.
Appreciate the update. Hopefully we can throw this destructive IP into the trashcan here.
It's bad enough to be a chud in the industry and have these views.
It's on a completely different level to have a youtube channel created to actively broadcast destructive bigotry into the world.
Seriously, how in the hell did the company allow this guy to stay employed while he was doing that?
People get fired in the industry for making the company look bad with a single tweet.
This is almost hilarious in how completely fucking over the top this situation is.
It's on a completely different level to have a youtube channel created to actively broadcast destructive bigotry into the world.
Seriously, how in the hell did the company allow this guy to stay employed while he was doing that?
People get fired in the industry for making the company look bad with a single tweet.
This is almost hilarious in how completely fucking over the top this situation is.
If you're saying the game should be canceled because of Rowling's views, then that's a different topic to what I was talking about. I was specifically replying to the comment saying the game should be canceled, and since this thread is about the Lead Designer, I took it as basically meaning if someone in a senior position was a dickhead then the entire project should be cancelled.
Rowling is trash, Fantastic Beast is trash and now the long waited RPG game is being developed by (a single) trash so far.
That franchise is cursed more than a horcrux at this rate 😅
That franchise is cursed more than a horcrux at this rate 😅
What the...
Man this game already was badly tainted by the very IP holder of the franchise. But now this.
And like Harry's scar, this one will hurt a lot!
Man this game already was badly tainted by the very IP holder of the franchise. But now this.
And like Harry's scar, this one will hurt a lot!
Thank you for the update. I hope whatever choice you all make reflects the image the site wishes to hold.
I don't know why you're being so severe about this. I've been totally polite to you. I'm not accusing you of saying anything wrong or of bad faith. I'm actually interested in your view of the morality of working at avalanche.
If you're saying it's no surprise the director is a chud, I'm just asking you if you feel like that extends beyond this particular person or not. I'm totally willing, for example, to entertain the idea that we've known Rowling is bad news for years now. The latest anti trans stuff is not new, just a bad-to-worse double down. Maybe it was unreasonable to start working on an HP game even in 2017 or whenever they started dev. How responsible is someone for who you work for and when is too much too much?
I'm really not trying to antagonize you.
Damnit. I was really looking forward to a next gen open world set in the harry potter universe. Why are they making it so hard.
This is really simplistic. Almost every industry in a capitalist society can harm employees. Firing a bunch of minorities from their jobs also hard minorities. This dude should have pressure put on him because he's a shitty person but this thread is filled with cruelty as well.
Transistor We thank you for you and the staff's deliberation. I'm sure you're very busy, but is there a way we can threadmark the above post? I believe it's very informative and puts things into perspective.
You're not "asking"; you're interpreting:
Which is particularly absurd given a) my original post was exceedingly specific in its wording about this being about the position of the director, and b) I had just repeated it again after your unwarranted and uncharitable reinterpretation:
How many more times do I have to answer it? Yes, it's about the freaking director. No, I'm not claiming every last goddamn intern in the studio is "sus".
Well... this certainly makes it that much harder for people to pull "but what about the innocent people working on it!!" if nothing else.
Honestly just a little baffled by how directly shitty it is? Like if it's any game that was going have this revealed, I guess I'm certainly glad it was this one, but I didn't expect it. Like even separate from Rowling, you hired someone like this to that position? Fucking really?
Honestly just a little baffled by how directly shitty it is? Like if it's any game that was going have this revealed, I guess I'm certainly glad it was this one, but I didn't expect it. Like even separate from Rowling, you hired someone like this to that position? Fucking really?
I mean, we're talking a high level position in a more creative project that wields influence over it that is also literally created due to and will directly benefit the racist TERF with a penchant for British Exceptionalism billionaire. The only not fucking terrible part of this whole endeavor would be those workers who do not align with the garbage ideologies literally at the forefront of the project in every way, and they'll probably be crunched to hell and back in a hostile work environment before this game ever sees the light of day...
So what you are saying is this guy was actively creating bigoted videos on youtube while he was working for DISNEY? And they didn't do anything about it?
This just gets better and better.
I don't want to pick on you specifically but as I read through the rest of the thread, this stuck out to me because of how often this framing of the series usually comes up.
The thing is, as much as you - and many others, me included - took away that sort of thing from it back in the day, that's not really what was happening. The series is a huge mess of half-executed on themes, mixed messages that it constantly undermines, and often just straight up cruelty. It's sometimes about friendship and love and acceptance on a surface level, sure, but often the actual events actively go against that. Like you can say it's about that, but if you went looking for actual hard examples I don't think it would be as established as you'd expect. There's nothing there that would make me expect her to be a kind and accepting person.
If the timelines add up then I guess so. Though, in Disney's defense, I doubt they're going around stalking all the developer's social media profiles. I doubt they'd know about it unless someone informed them. How much they would do about it in that case I don't know. I assume it would have to get some media traction before they would act on something like that. Look how long they took to deal with Gina Carano.
He worked for Disney until March 2016, so anything after that was when he was no longer working for them.