Not that they endorse anything that I've said, of course, but at least they seem more concerned with making good games than with pushing some kind of a social justice agenda, so there is hope." May 2018 is when Leavitt last posted to this YouTube channel. "I'm happy to say that, even though I disclosed my YouTube channel to WB Games, it didn't appear to be an issue for them. At the start of this month, Hogwarts Legacy producer Troy Leavitt announced that he would be stepping away from Avalanche Software. "Some of you have expressed that, due to my commentary on some game industry controversies and my sympathies for the Gamergate movement, that I might have a difficult time should I ever want to return to professional game development," Leavitt said in one of his YouTube videos. Troy Leavitt, credited as a lead designer on WB Games’ upcoming Harry Potter Hogwarts Legacy title, ran an anti-social justice and anti-feminist YouTube channel before being hired by the studio. about his YouTube channel after he joined Avalanche Software in February 2018. "So, in my estimation, #Gamergate while painful at time, on the whole proved to be a good thing," he told The Gaming Ground in 2017. In other videos, Leavitt also showed support for Gamergate, which took aim at women and minorities in the video game community. He also ran a reactionary YouTube channel focused on attacking feminism and social justice for over a year. ![]() development studio Avalanche Software currently working on controversial Harry Potter game Hogwarts Legacy. Troy Leavitt, who has been developing video games since 1995 and is currently working on Hogwarts Legacy, uploaded dozens of videos to YouTube between September 2016 and March 2018. ![]() "He characterises the #MeToo movement as a 'moral panic' and downplays Lasseter's many sexual harassment allegations essentially because he doesn't think any of them qualify as outright illegal and he believes they were less severe than Harvey Weinstein's," Robertson added. Troy Leavitt is a lead designer at Warner Bros.
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