- Jun 18, 2017
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Well, I had two discussions with Tobie about writing and its quality in the game (One somewhat around mid-march of 2017 and other in January of this year).
First was about the pre-rework version of this game, everyone who was around then remembers quality of its writing. And I had to argue with no effect about why MC name should not be Salazar Riddle Black! Everyone who at least had read the books should how bad it is and in what type of fanfiction this type of name appears.
And the response for my question "If the quality of writing will be improved in future updates" , that I'd got back then from one of the devs was literally "This game is not business, this is our creation (as art). It is important to us to implement our ideas, not to make successful game dev company". This is the core of the all bad things that are in their game, they are a bunch of unprofessionals who don't want to improve and in the same time want to get that sweet sweet money.
The second one was about the re-worked version game. The discussion was about one particular dialogue in the beginning of the game between Dumbledore and Hermione. The main point of that discussion was about Dumbledore being to OOC and misrepresenting to the point that it was not Dumbledore anymore but some old bearded guy with funny clothing. The whole dialogue was dismantled to single phrases, it was shown that "Dumbledore's" reactions was fully OOC, there is no way that Dumbledore that we know will mumble something and back off to defend himself while speaking with Hermione. Some people might argue that it is within writer's rights to portrait characters as he likes, and I agree, but when this representation changes so many character's key characteristics to the point that they are literally could not be placed near to that character's name without strong dissonance. There was even two rewritten version of this dialogue, which one was hugely accepted by local community as far superior to what was in game, but effect was literally zero. Same answer, "I'm the author, I see that way". You can't argue with people like that, it's fruitless and will only consume your time and energy.
P.S. To those people that think that it's OK to do that kind of character rework I will say this.
If writer is not careful instead of Dumbledore(dialogue from above) there will be some old bearded guy, instead of Hagrid (which was harmless, somewhat charming in his own innocent way) there will be some huge perverted imbecile, etc, etc. In the end there will be literally nothing from what made Hogwarts so appealing to many of us. Instead there will be some magical school and some horny people inside it with popular label placed above it, so people will go and buy (donate to) it. But hey, that's OK, there are no problems, everything is fine. After all, Disney is doing the same thing to Star Wars.
