people weren't talking about the actual game much?
Game came out at the start of the year so it has been 10 months or so. It was all anyone talked about for like month or so until most people beat it and moved on to other stuff, same as what happens will basically ALL single player games without dlc announcements. Spiderman 2 came out to even less fanfare than that and was forgotten faster and was still nominated for stuff including GOTY (LMFAO). Hell, did anyone even know Alan Woke 2 was a thing before it was nominated? Nobody I talked to even knew it existed before the Game Awards, but somehow that got a GOTY nomination?
GOTY material keeps people engaged for awhile
I never said it should be GOTY, I specifically called out that it wasn't nominated for ANYTHING. Which is really quite odd. I am not even complaining it didn't win anything, its the fact it wasn't even NOMINATED speaks volumes to me.
someone cooked the books on the number of sales
I'm gonna need something backing up that claim. Its a good Harry Potter game that lets you attend Hogwarts, of course it sold massive numbers.
Either that or the vast majority of players were small children who don't know how to vote at a game awards
game people only bought for nostalgia and then dropped
Pick one narrative and stick to it please. It's almost like you have never encountered Harry Potter fans and how "passionate" they can be. There is a less than 0 % chance that nobody voted for it.
It should have been TOTK ultimately, but the fact Hogwarts Legacy wasn't even nominated for anything despite how well it did should tell you everything you need to know about how much political bullshit was going on here.
On top of supposedly not donating and keeping over $600K in the bank, it seems that his family is using the charity to fudge some numbers and is pocketing at least 10s of thousands every year based on just some conservative estimates. This situation went from "oh that's quite odd but they can address that" to "oh that's actually criminal" in just two weeks. Life comes at you fast.
You get the point where you end up spending 30 minutes updating bug tracking and documentation for a one-line code change.
If you're lucky. You might end up spending days going through an approval process getting the third degree from managers who dont know the code at all giving you crap for a bug that wasn't your fault to begin with.
I'm not asking people to feel ashamed about piracy, I am asking people to stop fucking talking about it, making it more visible, and ruining it for the rest of us when they clamp down harder on it. Too many people are treating it like a badge of honor they need to tell the whole world about, bringing more unwanted attention to it in the process.
BADGERS?! BADGERS?! WE DON"T NEED NO STINKING BADGERS!