Piracy keeps her media culturally relevant, which leads to more people spending money on it.
Buy something worthy of your time AND your money, then you'll also be playing something worth recommending to your friends.
Then recommend the game and recommend pirating it over paying. I mean, easy solution, explain why pirating is better, and then whoever wants the game might pirate it
Or you could just find other games. There's a trope about how everyone has far too big a Steam backlog to ever play everything, why play this game that helps the HP cultural dominance when you could play Celeste or Outer Wilds or Slay the Princess or literally anything else made by good people?
How about stop atking people who wanna play a game promise you this game isn't even a drop in the bucket to her funds all your hurting are developers her books and movies are what bring in money
Yup, on top of wand replicas, branded school supplies, plushies, studio tours, universal studios, lego sets, shirts, hoodies, socks, stage play, and whatever the fuck else they make.. besides there's better magic stories anyway. I'll stick to owl house and little witch academia.
I'm also hurting actors and filmmakers by not watching the movies, I'm hurting editors and publishers by not reading the books.
That's the entire point, there's a massive economy feeding into her hatred for trans folks, and the best way to help is to not engage with her work in any way.
I mean, I never said I would play it, I just suggested it as a solution for Diehard Potter heads since well.. we all know nothing will stop them. Their disney adult levels of dedicated
Engaging with her work in any way keeps it in the cultural lexicon. HBO loved how much Game of Thrones was pirated, because it led to more subscriptions.
It would be better to fill your time with other art, so you fill your headspace and conversations with those works instead of HP.
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Buy something worthy of your time AND your money, then you'll also be playing something worth recommending to your friends.
That's the entire point, there's a massive economy feeding into her hatred for trans folks, and the best way to help is to not engage with her work in any way.
"🥺 bwuh bwuh whaddabout tha devewopers?" They've already been paid, I'm not obligated to buy their shitty work.
It would be better to fill your time with other art, so you fill your headspace and conversations with those works instead of HP.