Warner Bros. Cancels Planned ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Game Expansion

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lets just create an alternate wizarding universe.
i mean, she stole the idea from someone else anyways.
this could just be a "cruel reflection" minus the TERF nonsense, and wizards shitting on the floor.
- Instead of palworld A wizworld
- minus the TERF nonsense, and wizards shitting on the floor.
  I get the TERF stuff, but why go after such a highly regarded part of official canon lore?

oh no not the expansion to the game no one even remembers
dude they shut down monolith and canceled the only game with a nemesis system we were going to play. nothing they do is newsworthy anymore. they were always shitty but now they're also completely pointless.

JK Rowling is a transphobe, a bigot, and a fascist.
- It's actually so refreshing seeing upvoted comments here with the correct take, whereas the chuds would be all over this on the other site
  Fuck JKR and everything she stands for
  
  and yet, there's plenty of dogshit apologists in this thread arguing to "just let people play games" because they have zero self control. this place is literally no different than the other.
- So is a massive chunk of murica
  
  So she's not even been original?

WHY?! WHY ARE THEY BEING SO STUPID WITH HOGWARTS?!
They built this whole world into the game and did NOTHING with it! It's empty! Hogwarts the settings is perfect! The castle was fun to walk around in, to explore! I 100%'d the game because I loved exploring in it! Then they did nothing else to the game. I don't even remember what the antagonist's name was!
The game oversold all expectations! People just loved shelling out money for it! Then WB just dropped it.
I see things bitching every day about how their game studios don't make enough money and then they shit the bed here by just letting that game sit here!
If they're actually worried about money why are they not cranking out DLC every 4-6 months?! People would buy it! The world they built is begging to have more stories told, and people are holding out their wallets asking for more content for it - and they cancel it?!? They can't bitch and moan that games don't make money and then they just flip the off switch on their freaking money printer.
Thanks. That was cathartic.
- WB doesn't seem to know how to release any media post 2010.
  They keep trying to shoehorn IP into trends, years after market saturation to try and capture nostalgia, and then wonder why they didn't meet sales targets. See MK1, Space Jam 2, or anything related to HP or LotR.
  The other thing they do is when they do have an interesting or original idea with the IP, the executive team seems too risk averse to put any capital behind it. See the two new Loony Tunes movies, one was in theaters for less than a week and the other was scrapped entirely for a tax writeoff.
  
  What's MK1?
  
  Mk sucks now, soulless
- They also closed Monolith, a great studio behind e.g. FEAR amd Shadow of Mordor games. They are making all the wrong decisions, and then will wonder why they have lost to competitors.
  
  I loved shadow of mordor/war, and always wondered why they didn't make another. However I also guess better to go out early before it's done to death
- It's genuinely baffling watching WB just make like, every wrong decision. Their business is losing money and every time a project that receives praise or interest is announced/released that is nearly guaranteed to make them lots of money.They just don't go through with it. Or they do some work on it then can it.
  It's like, even out of touch executives at other large companies have enough feelers to find out generally what people are enjoying. Then with all their money they throw something in that general direction and something eventually sticks.
  With WB though it's like, nothing is working. The things that do stick don't make as much as they thought. And the things that they don't think will make money do make money, often more than they thought... And then they just always find a way to either piss off everyone, sour and sabotage the future projects, or just don't do anything with it.
  It's just so fucking weird. Like I don't even enjoy or partake in most of the stuff WB puts out. But sitting on the sidelines and just watching it all unfold makes me question what drugs the leaders at the company are on...
  
  You could replace every mention of "WB" in there with "Bungie" and it would still be true
  
  I'm glad I'm not the only one genuinely confused by this. Are they shorting their own company? What is going on?
  I mean, a Gollum game?
  
  It's been especially bad over the last year. WB is in freefall at this point.
  It seems it would be pretty easy to blame this on David Zaslav, but the games department specifically has been fucking up like never before: Mortal Kombat, Multiversus, Gollum, Kill the Justice League. Just name a WB game that came out, and it's been an abysmal failure, with similar games from other studios doing much much better.
- For real.
  They could've been making GTA levels of money. Soooo many people were able to overlook the terribleness of the author just to be able to be in the Harry Potter world.
- They're still moving forward with the sequel (at least according to the article), so if I had to guess they figured they missed the boat with the expansion and want to focus on the sequel instead.
  
  Which is fine, but I have no idea why they're just throwing everything they have in the trash. They built the whole world and just sat on it. Expansions could make them so much money to fund the next game in the short term
  
  They very well could be implementing that stuff into the sequel.
- Probably more expensive than they realize and too much work
  
  Then they really are horrible at gaming because there are millions of people chomping at the bit to pay any amount for dlc to that game
- Why'd you give money to a terf?
  
  Because I'm tired of being told what to be outraged about
  
  Ever looked at an advert? Bought a computer? Eaten food produced by a multinational chain like Nestlé? Almost every action you take will involve generating money for an absolute shit. It's fine (even encouraged) to let people who might not know that Rowing is a horrible bigot, but don't have a go at someone for enjoying a fucking video game.
  
  Not OP but I bought it for my sister who is notoriously impossible to buy birthday presents for because she explicitly requested something for once, then I played it through Steam family sharing to deny at least one sale of the game.
- My wife has been really enjoying the game
- Well you see the reason for this is simply that WB is stupid.
- (please do not support TERF content, pirate it if you really want to nostalgia bait yourself)
  because dlc is not something you just "do". it's something of a scale and complexity that needs to be planned out from the go. If the dev team is allowed to cook you might get an Assassin's creed 2 situation. but this company will almost certainly not allow that to happen.
  (please do not support TERF content, pirate it if you really want to nostalgia bait yourself)
- Is someone upset they can't fork over more money to the rabidly transphobic piece of shit and the media conglomerate megacorp?
  
  Seeing how the game prominently features trans characters and that Rowling wasn't involved in making it, it probably doesn't bother many people.
  I want to support media that show and empathize with trans people, and Hogwarts is one of them. But yes, even though she was not involved, she surely is receiving some royalties due to the setting.
  
  Right message. Wrong tone. Assuming you want people to fork less money to the transphobic piece of shit.
  You do want that, right?

Only would buy if Rowling wasn't around to receive the money from that, for now, only piracy

Warner bros has no idea how to media anymore. They forgot about looney tunes characters. They cancel their movies after shooting before release. They do t make dlc for games that sold like hotcakes. All they did was patent the nemesis system. what the fuck are they doing?
- Nobody knows but it really gets the people going

It's disappointing that even here on the fediverse people are cheering for the franchise of someone who's sole motivation these days seems to be hating trans people.
- Because there are people who can still love a franchise and not the person who created it?
  Wow, blew your mind.
  
  Because they keep making terfs richer. Don't know why that seems such a hard concept to understand. Just admit that you don't give a shit about trans people and move on.
- There's about a thousand and one other people involved with the franchise after 8 movies, 3 spinoff movies, a play and a dozen or so videogames.
  Rowling is pretty much irrelevant to the fandom and people aren't into the HP stuff because of her.
  
  She is directly benefitting from the sales and people buying Harry Potter stuff know that.
- I think it’s really interesting that the christians used to have a huge hate boner for Harry Potter when I was growing up but now it’s shifted to the left sphere. They all kinda flip flopped
  
  Extremists on both ends demand purity of thought
- Every time I see Harry Potter or J.K. Rowling's name in the news I look for comments like these to restore a tiny bit of my sanity.
- Nostalgia is a hell of a drug. Especially when you've only ever read one book.

There is a lot to say about JK Rowling and trans right, but this topic is kinda devolving into an unnecessary flame war.
I'll keep as much comments as I can, but some of them clearly violate both LW TOS and community rules, and thus will be removed.

Oh no... anyways.

Good. Fuck that entire franchise and the bitch who proliferated hate off the backs of its fans.

O WB. I hope you to under and loose all your licenses and copyright.

Ding dong the witch is dead
- Which old witch?
  
  The wicked witch

Still waiting for them to drop Denuvo so I can pirate it. Yes, I am aware there are some old builds out there, but I know what kind of crazy circumvented Denuvo in those. No, thanks.
- Whatever do you mean empress is completely well adjusted person who has never said anything questionable even once.
  /s in case that was necicary
- Yeah, I got a virus when I tried

Lmao all the potterhead dweebs are gonna be malding over this one.
Y'all should read another book sometime, play a different game. Who knows, you might like it.

Oh no. That was my favorite clothes simulator.

Nooooooooooo

Disappointing for sure. Great game and has the potential for some great expansions.
Maybe Hogwarts 2…
- No, the game sucks
  
  [Insert Billy Madison clip here]

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