{"id":139994,"date":"2025-09-18T15:22:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2139697"},"modified":"2025-09-18T15:22:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:22:47","slug":"hogwarts-legacy-dev-resigns-after-youtube-channel-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/hogwarts-legacy-dev-resigns-after-youtube-channel-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Hogwarts Legacy dev resigns after YouTube channel backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hogwarts-legacy-dev-resigns-after-youtube-channel-backlash.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hogwarts Legacy developer Troy Leavitt has resigned from Avalanche Software after discussion of his old YouTube channel blew up online last month.<\/p>\n<p>Writing on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Troylus_true\/status\/1367646558209052674\">Twitter<\/a> today, Leavitt said he had decided to part ways with the developer and would explain more in an upcoming video he would post to the channel in question.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have nothing but good things to say about the game, the dev team, and WB Games,&#8221; Leavitt wrote. &#8220;To clarify: I felt absolutely secure in my position. However, I still wanted to resign for reasons that I will explain in that forthcoming video. I&#8217;m in excellent spirits and very pleased with my relationship with WB and Avalanche.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-03-05-hogwarts-legacy-dev-resigns-after-youtube-channel-backlash\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-03-05-hogwarts-legacy-dev-resigns-after-youtube-channel-backlash\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hogwarts Legacy developer Troy Leavitt has resigned from Avalanche Software after discussion of his old YouTube channel blew up online last month. Writing on Twitter today, Leavitt said he had decided to part ways with the developer and would explain more in an upcoming video he would post to the channel in question. &#8220;I have nothing but good things to say about the game, the dev team, and WB Games,&#8221; Leavitt wrote. &#8220;To clarify: I felt absolutely secure in my position. However, I still wanted to resign for reasons that I will explain in that forthcoming video. I&#8217;m in excellent spirits and very pleased with my relationship with WB and Avalanche.&#8221; Read more Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hogwarts Legacy dev resigns after YouTube channel backlash | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hogwarts Legacy developer Troy Leavitt has resigned from Avalanche Software after discussion of his old YouTube channel blew up online last month.Writing\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" 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