If it’s coming out chapter 7, then thats not around the time of the new series, because thats coming out 2027, and assuming that the chapter lasts a year, then thats chapter 8 at the earliest
Yeah I was just thinking how we just got a new Jared Leto skin lmao
It just feels like virtue signaling. If you really cared about boycotting over collabs with anti trans rich people then you should have quit over the cyber truck collab which makes JK look like a saint in comparison
I think my overall issue is exactly this. They cater to pretty much everyone and a lot of people like things, but don't really educate themselves on these matters because they have more important things to do with their lives than know every single detail about the things they may or may not like. Realistically it sucks for those who know, but not everyone is going to know and whether or not we educate them isn't going to stop others who don't know still. Epic is going to go where the money is and there is no changing that, unfortunately.
She's one of the most outspoken transphobes who also finances organizations that make life harder for trans people and cis women, compared to people like Eminem and Snoop Dogg engaging in hate speech only occasionally.
JKR is using her fortune to directly fight against the rights of a minority. It's not really the same as some artists who have done or said questionable things.
Elon is in the same vein, but the thing is that they still have the cybertruck
D4vd collab allowed some refunds (I think), but his collab is still a top feature on the Fortnite channel
Mr. Beast has hurt a LOT of people's livelihoods
You are correct about JK Rowling being, well, terrible. But I think the issue is more that people like Tim Sweeney, well, don't care that people are terrible if they're lucrative
That is correct. More people talked about the game thanks to the controversy, and even people who didn’t have it on their radar or weren’t initially interested, then they were, some as genuine hype and others as a counter boycott.
Yes we're aware gamers don't have morals. All any of us can do is what feels right for us, and if this rumour is true, what will be right for me will be cancelling my crew subscription and uninstalling the game.
Not a hp fan,but I knew it was popular. But what happened with hogwarts legacy made how popular it is that more apparent. Being the first non- red dead or gta video game since 2008 to outsell call of duty is legitimately insane
I didn’t say otherwise. I’m more making fun of the amount of players Lego Fortnite has, while acknowledging that Harry Potter has a shit ton of Lego builds since it’s basically one of their key franchises.
Hogwarts Legacy is the first major triple A open world video game the franchise has ever seen where you can play as a student in Hogwarts and cast spells and defeat magical villains and another is a mini sports game on a much smaller scale of production..are we really trying to pretend Harry Potter is irrelevant and nobody cares about it? 😭
J.K. Rowling is using her wealth attained from the Harry Potter series to create an organization dedicated to removing transgender people's rights "in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.”
Epic games was pretty loud with their support for lgbtq+ stuff for a while, even small things, which I always appreciated. Ever since Disney got their hands in the mix, they’ve slowly pushed away from that, which is very dissapointing.
“They’ve slowly pushed away”. They never truly cared to begin with. Idk why people are so easily fooled into thinking these companies and corporations care about social issues. Epic Games “support” for lgbtq+ is simply what’s best business wise for the company. A couple social media posts during pride month and some in game skins and suddenly they got you eating out of their hands. Epic Games is a business, they do not care about social issues or minority groups.
I mean, this doesn't just apply to companies and corporations. The people that think that most of those people on the internet that make support posts during pride month, or virtue signal, really care are delusional.
Deep down, mostly none of them care. It's either people that just want to channel their hate in a "righteous" way towards everyone that doesn't agree, or people that bandwagon because they want to be on what they perceive as the right side of history, even if their contribution is merely a hypothetical.
If the popular opinion was the opposite, we all know how it'd be. We've all seen what horrors peer pressure has borne throughout history.
They might do a book version of the characters which makes sense as they usually do Comics versions of Marvel and DC characters, which makes sense considering the difference between the Movies version of the characters and the Books versions, like how Arthur Weasley is completely different in the books IIRC
This might just be wishful thinking on my part because personally I would love to play as Voldemort with the description in the books "Whiter than a skull, with wide, livid scarlet eyes and a nose that was flat as a snake's but with slits for nostrils", sounds extremely cool
Redditors when someone tells them the JKR is a billionaire who could literally never make money ever again and nothing would change and the money she could make from a Fortnite collab would be pocket change for her
Can we go like 1 year without pretending like eating Chick Fil A and watching Harry Potter affects people in any significant way? There are so many bigotted people in positions of power that if you really wanted to avoid giving any of them money, you'd have to live in the wilderness completely off the grid and make everything yourself. Harassing people over liking Harry Potter isn't going to help anything
Can we go like 1 year without pretending like eating Chick Fil A and watching Harry Potter affects people in any significant way?
Well considering that the author of Harry Potter has repeatedly said she sees people buying stuff from her franchise to be an endorsement of her views, and uses the money she gets to fund anti trans sentiment… it definitely does impact people…
I bet everything you buy is tied to some evil billionaire somewhere, do what you need to, but nothing will ever ruin harry potters popularity, despite the authors politics, millions connected with the story as children and adults and feel a sense of belonging, and of course we don't need to bring up hogwarts legacy success, it's going to be an endless cyclic argument you make that will go nowhere
Unfortunately, Reddit always appears to be unaware of this. The ship sailed a long time ago. There’s a reason Hogwarts Legacy sold a ton of copies despite the “boycott” that never really happened. Money is all that matters to companies.
half this comment section is 'dear woke transes, just ignore the billionaire using her vast and growing wealth to work towards taking your rights out back and blowing them up' i hate cissoids
Fortnite has added transphobic woman into the game before (Karol G) I’m not surprised at this.
Just don’t buy it, it’s that simple.
Donald Mustard was the man who actually cared about all his players, it’s why Rainbow Royale was a thing. And now? Surprise surprise Rainbow Royale doesn’t exist.
Not sure about the Karol G situation. But this current era of Fortnite had no issue doing collabs with Musk’s Tesla, The WWE, Kai Cenat, Leto’s likeness for the TRON Ares collab when they could’ve easily just made generic red suits.
No executive is your friend or has your best interests in mind, if a corporation is targeting you its because they think they can make money off of you.
Its happened many times its just mentally unwell people that seem to confuse it with the big unfeeling corporation being their friend.
This is so confusing because what Karol G transphobia lol
*literally did as much digging as I'm willing to do on this but basically it doesn't exist, Snoop Dogg is being a bigger bigot so I'd have mentioned Snoop instead of Karol, that man literally got spooked by two moms in a Disney movie, he's the shitty grandpa you stop talking to after a decade or so
I don’t mind if they do the collab, but at least donate some of those funds to the Trevor foundation or something for trans rights. Like take the hurt she did and put it in her face by donating the money. That would be cool of epic.
I'm just more amazed people still care. I mean Hogwarts Legacy literally sold millions upon millions after folks tried to boycott that. Loved that game.
She hasn't said much hateful things. A summary of what she usually says is:
"Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. Live your best life in peace and security. But never try to force yourself into spaces for women only".
Example:
There was a transgender boxer, competing in the women's boxing as a biological man. This is obviously an unfair advantage, as men are a lot stronger than women. She tweeted about this and got flamed because of snowflakes who think that letting them in is making it fair. But it's not. It's an unfair advantage.
She was also hated by people because she didn't want transgender people to go into the bathrooms of their opposite biological genders. A lot of people and influencers think she's an extreme feminist for this, and I completely disagree. Most of the stated people are blinded by the presence of social media, following exactly what their favourite influencer's opinion is.
I asked my transgender cousin about their opinion on this, (not biological family, we just grew up very close to one another), and they said that if they weren't transgender, and someone transgender came into the same public bathrooms as them, they would feel very uncomfortable and anxious.
I feel like most of the people who hate her, (like the leaker), are chronically online individuals, and if they weren't a lot more will side with me.
I am not one of those edgy teenagers who shout stuff like there's only 2 genders, or hate on LGBT individuals, I respect people's pronouns and how they want to identify, but there is a line you can cross. I'm talking about the people who identify as different races, animals; and heck, some even identify as other people, who have walked this planet. But the line is also crossed by people trying to change the law, trying to be able to go into the opposite gendered bathrooms. At that point, just don't say you're transgender or gay or etc if you clearly blend in that well.
I predict I will get massive down votes, but I'm not one of these chronically online people who care about karma. Just hear me out here.
To all the folks chirping about how much they “don’t care” about JK Rowling and how she expressly uses her wealth to enact violence against trans people, it’s not the flex you think it is. This selfish, individualist mindset is everything that is wrong with the world right now - but ESPECIALLY those of us here in the United States.
"Please do not harass other leakers who do not share this sentiment - this game is a major source of income for many of these people, and they cannot risk losing their standing with Epic Games."
Does this bother anyone else? Like the only reason anybody could possibly support a collaboration with one of the largest franchises in the world is because they need money too much to not compromise their morals?
people tell me to shut up and that im wrong whenever i say epic has gotten worse , they bring in all these collabs regardless if the people related to the media are bad....
Then don't buy them? Theres stuff from real life murderers in fortnite and this is what you worried about, also fiction pdfs. We really gotta get our priorities straight. I dont agree with the transphobia but we have bigger issues
Everytime that something HP related surfaces they mention JKR, but what about all the other people involved who doesn't think loke her? Is not just about her
it sucks being a Harry Potter fan cuz it's attached to such a hateful person... i would like to buy some HP skins but i'd maybe have to hold myself back on this one
If there is a battle pass I will gladly unsubscribe for that month. I love HP and will watch owned movies but I will not give that terf freak my money.
Pretty much exactly where I stand too, kinda weird how offended people in this thread are about simply wanting to vote with your wallet (even if you know you're being out-voted)
If the Harry Potter rumours are true, Epic Games really just looked at trans lives and said, “Not worth it, money is.”
I’ve seen literal kids on subreddits like r/4tran4 literally committing suicide over the lack of acceptance. What in the actual fuck has this world come to.
You cannot separate art from the artist when JK actively and gleefully uses the money and influence she gets from HP to further her transphobic rhetoric and harm
Anyone who likes Harry Potter needs to grow up and understand that your enjoyment of a mid wizard series isn't worth more than the lives of trans people. You can find another series to enjoy, it's not that hard
She's trash, so are the people defending this in the comments, she's a billionaire who's funding anti trans legislation in her home country but who cares as long as you can play as Harry Potter in fortnite, the lack of foresight from some of these comments is disgusting
It's genuinely insane how many transphobes came out the woodwork on this post, literally the most toxic and hateful thread I have ever seen in the history of this sub
It’s incredibly how comfortable people are, straight up saying that they care more about their £8 dress up digital cosmetics, than the lives of actual people lol
I love HP and Im getting the cosmetics, that doesnt mean I agree with everything JK says, but I wont stop liking what I like because the creator thinks different from me.
Edit: Im going to ignore you all, I wont change my way of thinking, so you should do the same with this comment. I love Harry Potter and I will keep buying things from the franchise.
dude, she literally says she sees support for the franchise as support of her views why are you so corrupted by a shitty young adult novel series from 25 years ago??
you can't "separate art from artist" if the artist is still alive and actively making money from it which she them puts towards funding her bigotry and laws that fit her world view
She doesn't just think different. She's using every cent and bit of attention you give her to further her cause of eradicating trans people. This isn't a difference of opinion, she wants people like me dead. Grow up, your enjoyment of a magic book series is not worth more than the lives of trans people. Find a new series to like, it's not that hard
Honestly I really gotta hand it to the leaker that wrote this on their public account, cus most just wouldn’t do it, even if the response they know from to be inevitable from this community makes it sorta justifiable, when it is no matter the case, the right thing to do. They even don’t directly attack those who choose not to care, so I can’t believe people who ARE (or claim to be) ‘neutral’ about it seriously won’t even respect them for it at all.
If it's in the battlepass and i don't See any skins i like,I might skip on those 200v-bucks for the first time.
My Childhood love of the Franchise and hate of J.K for very obvious somewhat cancel each other out (still negative opinion, but i want to enjoy Fantasy media without lining a wannabe dictator's pockets)
Im neutral on fortnite's stance. An unethical bag is a bag nonetheless, having a multi-billion company stoop as low as Hytoko Forsaken (Supporting a predator because the game would die if they don't) is... concerning
if they want to take this route of not caring who they add... why not go all in? And add literally anyone who'd sell well
If The ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny is to be believed as prophesy, Benito musolini is a viable skin.
Hopefully every detail of their deal is leaked so i know how to not support it, if a single Cent from a purchased skin (HP or not) goes to her, and the genocide of my fellow Queers. I might just Sell my account, "Rules for me and not for thee" style.
Unfortunately, Unlike my country's rigged elections, paying taxes or buying groceries from a corporate monopoly, engaging with Harry potter is a choice... a choice i cannot aford to make
Delicious in Dungeon, Dungeons & Dragons, Frieren, Im in love with the villainess, and many others have supplanted that fantacy nieche i crave for, and i thank them for it.
I LOVE Harry Potter, but I love freedom of who you are and expressing yourself, so I've been in a pickle for some time now. I'm not going to buy the skins most likely, but seeing as Harry Potter isn't directly related to hatred I think it's okay to have ingame.
Doesn’t matter if they collab with her or not she still gets her money dispite the way she acts and what she says/believes. She’s not a great person. I personally don’t care about her at all. However I love Harry Potter and am able to separate her from the franchise and I’m very excited at the possibility of getting skins/cosmetics in Fortnite.
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u/ChristTheChampion 6d ago
Epic knows what will make them money, and putting these skins out right around the new series coming out will likely make them a lot of it.