The nominations for the Game Awards 2023 are here. However, the game “Hogwarts Legacy” from the Harry Potter universe is completely missing. For Twitch streamer Lirik, this is completely incomprehensible: 95% of all people would find Harry Potter great and everyone played Hogwarts Legacy at the release and rated it as good.
This is the situation:
- The Game Awards by Geoff Keighley serve as the most important video game award in the gaming industry.
- 120 media representatives handle the nominations in a variety of categories such as “Game of the Year”, “Best Art Direction” or “Best Ongoing Game”.
- However, the action RPG Hogwarts Legacy (84% Metacritic on PS5, 85% Xbox, 83% PC) went home empty-handed in 2023. Not a single nomination was there. Thus, a Twitch streamer has a problem.
95% of the people love Harry Potter
This is why Lirik is upset: The popular and established Twitch streamer Lirik has shown Hogwarts Legacy for 33 hours on Twitch, with an average of 22,250 viewers watching him.
The controversial streaming channel Fextralife even showed the game for 150 hours. In Germany, eliasn97 was the most successful streamer.
Lirik is annoyed that Hogwarts Legacy was not nominated for a single award:
When the game came out, everyone played it. It was everywhere on social media and everyone enjoyed Hogwarts Legacy. Nobody said something like: “The game is total crap.” Because if you like Harry Potter – and 95% of people do – if you are not a weird emo ass who belongs to the 5%, [you like Harry Potter]
Most likely, when you were a kid, you liked Harry Potter, because who wouldn’t want to go to a damn magical school and eat frog chocolate!
The game would realize the childhood movie memories in the best game form. Lirik simply does not understand how such a game cannot be on the list of the best games of the year.
How is this being discussed? The clip has almost 100,000 views now and is being discussed on reddit .
Generally, people on reddit believe that Hogwarts Legacy was a solid game, but does not belong in the top category of super games that were released in 2023, such as Baldur’s Gate 3 or The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
One user also says that it is clear Hogwarts Legacy was not nominated because there was a backlash against the author J.K. Rowling by “Social Justice Warriors” online. But that Hogwarts Legacy was not nominated for an award seems to be an opinion that is only shared by a minority.
There was also a discussion in Germany about J.K. Rowling, which even led to a boycott call:
A German Twitch streamer calls for a boycott of Hogwarts Legacy
