Game looks great, don't think they need her input at this point. I'm sure she could help on certain things, but really, like the Witcher, the world is already pretty fully realized in enough media that they should be able to create an amazing game without having her input.
I mean the funny thing here about her "fully realized world" is that it's really... not? Like the basic setting of Hogwarts is pretty firmly there, and I think people (me included) obviously have a connection to that, but a lot about the wider setting/world itself isn't.
So much of the setting is made up of things that actually don't make any sense if you think about them for a few seconds, and then some other things that work about as well because they are literally offhand jokes. She never really tried to reconcile that at all. The Fantastic Beasts movies are a burning pile of trash for many different reasons, but one of the lesser ones is that a lot of what's shown about magic and the world doesn't even line up with what's shown in the original books/movies either. (Or, like, reality... really supposed to believe the Magic President of the USA in the 1920s is a black woman who is completely fine discriminating against Muggles for ??? reasons without any comment on that either way, etc. etc.)
So I'd expect they'd honestly be doing most of the work to develop the world that's not, like, the very basics about the school and spells, and some creature designs. And it's probably better for it, I guess.
It's a sad state of affairs when Warner Bros has to assure fans as a positive that JK Rowling doesn't have much involvement in the game.
That's not really the point though, she'll still make a considerable amount of money from this.
Not involved? Good. But fuck J.K. Rowling!
And fuck you, WB, for that weak ass statement! Like you even care and this is not some stupid fucking lip service just to ease some people's concern and therefore maximizing your fucking profit.
Of course they say that, what else would they say? "Yes she is" and basically kill the game?
Statements like this are always weird and pointless cause on one hand one answer would be horrible and kill the project and let's a shit storm raining down on it, so it has to be the other one no matter if it's true or not and therefore you can't trust it.
Yeah, Warner Bros, that's a lot of bs so shove it.
Unfortunately, even if she didn't get a single penny, it still benefits her. Unless it deservedly flops and companies stop working with the brand, I don't see any way playing this game wouldn't help her in the end.
I'm sorry to quote people to say this yet again, especially as I reported the OP (it's not stormfire's fault) already and am hoping it gets edited by a mod. This article is really naively promoting a misunderstanding and I think the OP not addressing that is just passing that misunderstanding onto people reading the thread.
There is seriously
nothing to suggest Warner Brothers intended this to be seen as distancing the game from her. There just isn't; it's not a weak statement, it's literally not meant to be one. It's praising her in the same breath as saying she's not involved, which would be weird if it was meant to be a statement about her, wouldn't it? And then if you actually read the questions and answers in their FAQ, it becomes very clear what this actually is.
It is
them trying to assure fans that this is canon. It's not that they're distancing themselves from her, it's that they want to come across as
closer to her. Either because she didn't want to do it, or because they looked at how Fantastic Beasts was going and went "oh fuck no", she didn't write anything for the game, and they know fans would theoretically
want the original author writing it or at least coming up with the original story. So this is "no, she didn't write anything, but we promise it's just like she did!!", and not "we kept the transphobe away!" at all.
