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Pottermore vs. Pottermore on PlayStation Home
I’m really getting annoyed at everyone complaining about Pottermore and Pottermore on PlayStation Home. Here’s the difference:
-If you want an online experience, an illustrated version of the books and some additional new content from J.K. Rowling, then your best bet is Pottermore.com. You’ll also get some interaction with other fans through social portals such as Common Rooms and the Great Hall. There are also a couple games available for play, including Potions and Wizard Dueling.
-If you want a hyper-interactive, MMORPG-like gaming experience where you can visit different parts of the Wizarding World with you’re own avatar and STILL get exclusive content from J.K. Rowling, then obviously the Pottermore PlayStation Home experience would be a better fit. There are also some different games and other features that are offered in the game as well.
Now, the second option comes at a price, but for (hopefully) obvious reasons. You are getting what you paid for, basically. You are getting a lot of extra features that the online version doesn’t offer because you paid money for it. If you pay money for it then quite frankly you deserve and earn it.
If you want the PlayStation Home experience, and are in a situation where you have the money to buy it, but are unwilling to pay the money for it, then stop complaining about it.
For all those who don’t want to pay the money for a Playstation home experience, including myself, then you have the online experience. And by the way, give that thing a chance. It’s a pretty amazing site. So what? It’s obviously not what everyone wants, what you may want, but you’re getting it for free. They are offering you new content from J.K. Rowling for free. We all know they could’ve very well sold it in book form, put a $50 price tag on it and people would still buy it. Heck, I know for sure that I would buy it. But no, they were nice enough to give you the content for free, along with beautiful illustrations and not-that-bad games. (Come on, they’re not that terrible.)
Be grateful that you get all of this for free. Be appreciative of all the hard work the Pottermore team puts into the site. They put their time and effort into it, and trust me when I say that they are working as fast as they can to put together the best they can.
So, basically; Reality check people. Get over yourselves.
Please note: I do understand that the vast majority of Pottermore users enjoy the site, appreciate the Pottermore team and their work, and are very grateful. It’s just that the opponents are so defined and stubborn and I was really on the verge of ranting, and this is my rant, so to speak.
Donate to make The Harry Potter Journey into an e-book
Our friends at The Harry Potter Journey are about to take their site to new heights and launch an e-book version of their site. But first, they need your help.
As you can imagine, editing and releasing a book isn’t cheap, even if it is an e-book. They have to pay for editors, artists, and other people who are crucial in the making of any book.
To raise the money for the e-book, they have launched a crowd funding campaign. If you would like to donate, click here.
If they raise enough money for this one, there will be more, presumably a volume for each Harry Potter book.
About The Harry Potter Journey:
The Harry Potter Journey is a non-profit website that has been in development since 2009, though it has changed and grown over the years. The idea began as solely a timeline of the Harry Potter books, how they were created and how they affected J.K. Rowling’s life. It grew to be a website that shares the complete history behind the Harry Potter books, editions and collector’s items, and more.
About The Harry Potter Journey E-Book (via HPJ):
During the last months we have been working on The Harry Potter Journey, Volume 1, which will be the first ebook ever covering the making of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. It will be an extended and revised version of the website, including new and never heard or seen information too. If all goes well, the tentative release date for the e-book is June 30, 2013, 16 years after the first Harry Potter book was published.
So The Blair Partnership, the agency that represents Jo, sent out a Holiday Email/ Year in Review Infographic. Check it out. It’s pretty amazing.
I personally think that the Pottermore numbers are staggering! Wow!
Does anyone have a subscription to The Bookseller?
Does anyone have a subscription to The Bookseller and would be so very kind to give me their login information? There’s an interview with Pottermore CEO Charlie Redmayne online and I need a subscription to read it. It would be most appreciated if someone did…
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