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   emilygorcenski (emilygorcenski@indieweb.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Feb-2023 06:15:08 JST emilygorcenski

   I do not give a fuck whether you play the harry potter game or not. JKR will make or lose more money due to random stock fluctuations than your royalties or boycott can ever possibly affect.

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     cwicseolfor (cwicseolfor@urbanists.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Feb-2023 06:15:01 JST cwicseolfor

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     @emilygorcenski Refusing to fund a studio who chose a known fash lead dev & selected art design deliberately based on WWII antisemitic propaganda posters, with flavor text fictionalizing real-life pogroms by year they occurred, seems like a good plan even in the absence of JKR involvement.

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     emilygorcenski (emilygorcenski@indieweb.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Feb-2023 06:15:02 JST emilygorcenski

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     So if I were a betting woman, I would bet that Rowling’s advance is all the money she’ll get from the game (games have very limited shelf lives typically, which also incentivizes Rowling to push for a larger advance).

     A boycott might hurt the developer, which is fair, if you want to hurt the developer. It may also lead to a reverse boycott, because the primary conservative viewpoint is “hurt people I don’t like.”

     Bø!rge repeated this.
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     emilygorcenski (emilygorcenski@indieweb.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Feb-2023 06:15:03 JST emilygorcenski

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     More people playing (paying) does earn out the advance faster, but the advance is basically game theory.

     The publisher wants it small, in case the game/book/whatever doesn’t sell, and the IP holder wants it big, for the same reason.

     For most cases, like for a first-time author, the publisher usually holds the power. But that dynamic reverses when you have a big famous IP. The IP holder is incentivized to hold out for a big advance, only making it smaller if it risks not selling at all.

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     emilygorcenski (emilygorcenski@indieweb.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Feb-2023 06:15:04 JST emilygorcenski

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     The advance is earned out at a rate proportional to the royalties, and no further money is paid until that happens.

     In other words, she’s probably already received most, if not all, the money this game will make.

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     emilygorcenski (emilygorcenski@indieweb.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Feb-2023 06:15:05 JST emilygorcenski

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     Like I’m glad people aren’t playing the game and the spoilers thing is ? praxis, but I don’t think the boycott is going to affect her royalties in any noticeable way, at all.

     The details of her deal are private, but most of the time royalties are paid as an advance. This has the effect of 1) hedging for the IP holder by providing a guaranteed income and 2) creating some buy-in for the developer to respect the IP.

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     emilygorcenski (emilygorcenski@indieweb.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Feb-2023 06:15:06 JST emilygorcenski

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     We have to have something better to do with our time.