In December 2021, The Doctor shared with you the article "Former EA Director Breaking news: There was a Harry Potter MMORPG that was cut, the reason is a bit funny", introducing that as early as 20 years ago, EA had hoped to launch a Harry Potter MMORPG! EA's former marketing director "Kim Salzer" broke the news, the beta version of the game was made, but EA executives did not think that the Harry Potter IP could become popular, so they cut the project!
The above-mentioned revelations naturally make people sigh, but we must also understand the business considerations of EA executives at that time, after all, there are still many short-lived IP. In addition, over the years, the Harry Potter series has adapted many games, but there have been fewer successes. Nowadays, mobile gamers are naturally playing Harry Potter: Magic Awakening, and the product that consoles and PC players are most concerned about is Hogwarts Legacy.
The new open-world role-playing game Hogwarts: Legacy, based on the Harry Potter series, has attracted the attention of fans around the world since its release. Although the game has not yet revealed the exact launch date, only that it has been postponed to 2022, the doctor has noticed two latest revelations that the launch time of the new game may be faster than we expected!
The news of Hogwarts: Legacy came to light as early as 2020, when Warner Bros. expected to make the product officially launch in 2021, but in January 2021, the development team suddenly announced that the game would be postponed to 2022. Recently, the staff of the development team has hinted that Hogwarts: Legacy will not be released until the release of the latest movie, Fantastic Beasts: The Mystery of Dumbledore, and the release date of the film we already know is April 8, 2022 (UK release) and April 15( North American release).
In addition, the well-known whistleblower Avalanche Software is currently hiring a localization production team to participate in the production of the game! We know that product localization is generally a job that is done after the game is almost completed. In addition, a developer called Sumo Digital also seems to be assisting in the development of the game, which may significantly accelerate the development of Hogwarts: Legacy.
Based on the above two revelations, the doctor speculated that the launch date of "Hogwarts: Legacy" should be the fall of 2022. This was much earlier than I had expected, and I personally always felt that the game might be postponed, after all, it is not a simple task to make an open world game that Harry Potter fans are satisfied with!
At the end of the article, the doctor synthesized the previous information to introduce you to the game "Hogwarts: Legacy". Players will play as a Hogwarts student in an immersive adventure throughout the wizarding world. Set in an original story set in the 19th century, a century before the Harry Potter canon series.
In other words, Hogwarts: Legacy builds on the Harry Potter worldview, but doesn't change any of the Harry Potter series's novels and movies, and players don't come across characters from the original harry potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger. Avalanche Software has a lot of room to play, which is a clever way to rub IP.