Hogwarts Legacy creative team pushed heavily for the game to be more inclusive. Since Hogwarts Legacy has been in the works since 2018, these developers were probably working on it before Rowling’s transphobic views came to light. They weren’t expecting the game to be controversial, but now it’s facing criticism from two angles: the inescapable connection to Rowling, and the recent revelation that one of the game designers publicly supported Gamergate. Advertisement Hide Inclusive character options are, in a general sense, a positive step for a mainstream game like this. But in context, the situation is far more complicated. For some fans, this