Players modified the Steam tag of "Hogwarts Legacy" to express their protest . Let's find out together.
As J.K. Rowling's controversial remarks on gender issues continue to be heated overseas, the Steam page of the upcoming "Hogwarts Legacy" has also become a "battleground." Many Steam users protested and continued to add some user-defined tags with negative connotations to "Hogwarts Legacy", such as "evil protagonist", "capitalism", "NSFW", "World War II", "psychological horror", etc. .
Since officials are constantly removing these irrelevant tags from the Steam page, it is difficult to see the above content in the current custom tag list, but it can still be found from the web snapshot history. Some netizens also posted pictures adding the "transphobic" tag to "Hogwarts Legacy". Although this tag is not one of Steam's own tags, if enough users add this tag, in theory, it will You may also see it on the game store page.
J.K. Rowling herself did not participate in the development of "Hogwarts Legacy", and transgender characters can be freely created in the game. However, considering that Rowling is the creator of the "Harry Potter" worldview, many overseas Netizens still expressed their intention to boycott/protest the adaptation of "Hogwarts Legacy" from the original "Harry Potter".