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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
Should we then punish everyone else who worked for years on the game, simply because Rowling is an idiot?

Edit: I am not strictly speaking about financial punishment here. There's more to it than that.
gpt
Most of the people working on the game are probably paid hourly or salary, not based on how many units are sold. The only ones who’d really be affected are Rowling, who gets royalties, and the highest up at the company, who can afford to take the loss (and are also the ones who made the conscious decision to partner with Rowling, thus also accepting any potential risks of that decision). Boycotting the game will not affect the vast majority of people who actually spent time developing the game.

Whether one agrees with consumer activism or not is another matter. Personally, I doubt it’ll really make much of a difference, but it’s possible that it’ll prevent other companies from partnering with Rowling in the future. But it’s definitely not going to have an affect on those people who toiled away; most if not all of the actual developers were already paid.

Of course, if the company loses money, I wouldn’t be surprised if the higher-ups fire some employees rather than admit that they themselves bear the responsibility. CEOs make more money supposedly because they risk losing it (but they don’t always take that risk upon themselves, unfortunately). But that’s corporate greed and not the fault of the consumer choosing not to buy a product