A YouTuber named GrandTheftDiamonds posted a video digging into Hogwarts Legacy’s files, and it’s a doo💞zy. Among unused voice lines, NPC-to-NPC relationships and more, one particular thing has been highlighted over and over are the reputation morality systems present that weren’t implemented in the final vers💎ion of the game. Bad behaviour would have resulted in House Points deductions and possibly a change in the way NPCs saw you.
This wouldn’t really be an issue, except Hogwarts Legacy’s lead developer said that there wasn’t a morality system for doing shady shit in the game because “this would be too judgmental on the game maker’s part”. Since the syste🍌ms exist, this is probably a lie. It’s more likely that it wasn’t included in the final version of the game due to a lack of time or resources. Maybe they changedꦚ their mind on a major feature because they decided it really was too judgmental, but that seems unlikely.
A lack of a morality system has bothered Hogwarts Legacy players since launch, with many expressing disbelief that you could happily break canon and commit crimes with no reperc🉐ussions. In the books, House Points were used to reward good behaviour and punish bad behaviour - it was a way to incentivise students to follow school rules, lest they piss off their entire house.🌌 But in Hogwarts Legacy, anything goes. You can cast Unforgivable Curses, straight up torturing and killing people, with pretty much no repercussions apart from characters “bit bad that, innit?” to your character in the moment.
Lots of video games let you do bad shit with impunity, but it’s always been weird to me that you could do that in a Harry Potter game, to other students, in front of teachers, and face no consequences. Apparently, you were supposed to face consequences, but the consequences are the hilarious part. Apparently, the game would have taken away House Points if you used the killing cu🦩rse on someone. That’s it. 100 points from Gryffindor, you murderer. Even they’re called Unforgivable Curses because you are quite literally doing something unforgivable to another human being, and people go to💞 Azkaban for using them. Instead the punishment is you lose House Points, and no House Cup for Gryffindor this year!
For context, there are other punishments included in the points system. Act up in class or take a nap on your desk? Ten points gone. Bully someone? That’s 20 points. Use Confringo to make something explode, and that’s also 20. But murder is 100. I can’t help but laugh - maybe it’s best that they didn’t include it after all, because one murder being equivalent to falling asleep in class ten times is just as hilariously lore-breaking as not having any consequences at all. Maybe that’s even why - because they knew this was silly.
That said, there seems to be some allusion in the files to crime scenes, which implies maybe somebody would have come to investigate you if you did, indeed, blatantly torture or kill someone with witnesses around. Either way, implies that that ⛦was deliberately left out so you could be as evil as you w♊ant, because it’s important that you get to live out your murderous fantasies for full roleplaying immersion, even though in the game world you would, generally, expect to face consequences. I love video games.