Hogwarts Legacy - Harry Potter open world action RPG prequel set in the late 1800s

[soulburner]

So... is the version from torrents any good? Last time I checked someone wrote the cracker added some of her own graphical tweaks...

 

[Camel]

i hate niggers and trannies and kikes

how, owlscat? how?

(also fuck you owlscat, i spent at least 2 hours clicking on your imbecilic pointless garbage colony shit game just to get a psyker helmet, fuck you and kill yourselves)

Plays Idira.

 

[std::namespace]

Plays Idira.

its imaginary, just like your gf

 

[Morgoth]

WBI is being very retarded.

 

[Tuco Benedicto Pacifico]

One trend I noticed over the years is that Live service games are like “e-sports games” and movie trilogies: they are either something that happens organically (i.e. a somewhat unexpected success story that keeps ballooning) or something that gets planned from the get go and more often than not turns into a complete stinker no one asked for.

 

[Butter]

It's not 2004 anymore, and there are way too many live service games competing for everyone's attention. The single player market is ripe, and the only thing holding developers back from capitalizing on it is their own ineptitude. Every time a single player AAA game releases and it's not comically terrible, it makes a shitzillion dollars.

 

[Tyranicon]

It's almost like even the most brain-dead consoomers hate trash games made entirely to slowly leech money from its playerbase.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

It's almost like even the most brain-dead consoomers hate trash games made entirely to slowly leech money from its playerbase.

you have to add jiggly butts like Nikké, that will make them... come...

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Nikke is pretty garbage gameplay and story-wise. The novelty of shaking buttocks can only carry your game so far. Sunk cost is the only reason I can imagine people still playing it.

 

[Morality Games]

Gotcha. Harry Potter is still a thing.

Go figure.

Not exactly surprising. Harry Potter has the kind of global mass cultural appeal that was only ever equaled by Star Wars.

 

[thesecret1]

The companies hate the uncertainty that comes with the model: "Will next year be profitable? Depends on if the game we're making is successful. Will it be successful? We don't fucking know."

Live service promises a lot more predictable and longer-term revenue, hence them trying their utmost to get on that train.

 

[lycanwarrior]

Hogwarts Legacy 2 Is Probably Going to Be Live Service – WB Says AAA Console Market Isn’t Enough​

https://wccftech.com/hogwarts-legac...rvice-wb-says-aaa-console-market-isnt-enough/

 

[Lord_Potato]

Hogwarts Legacy 2 Is Probably Going to Be Live Service – WB Says AAA Console Market Isn’t Enough​

https://wccftech.com/hogwarts-legac...rvice-wb-says-aaa-console-market-isnt-enough/

Warner Brothers board members are a bunch of retards at this point. They fucked up DC, damaged the HBO brand, released the failed live service called the Suicide Squad, and now after their single most popular game release in ages - Hogwart's Legacy, they want to ruin it too, by choosing a path for its sequel they've already failed at.

What a bunch of clowns. Why are they getting paid millions of $? It's not like they're creating anything but losses for their company.

Ah. So much for capitalism choosing the best people for the job.

 

[Caim]

While it is possible to make a shitload of money by properly monetizing the Harry Potter fanbase, going live service is not the way to do that.

 

[Gangrelrumbler]

While it is possible to make a shitload of money by properly monetizing the Harry Potter fanbase, going live service is not the way to do that.

This. Harry Potter is popular among people who grew up when the books and movies were being released, many of these grew-up along with the characters. These people are now working, many of them have families and most of them are not hardcore gamers. Hogwar's Legacy was such a stunning success precisely because people who don't really play video games bought it. They cannot in any way be converted into a crowd that would support one game for years. At the same time people who would be interested in GAAS i.e children and dudebros don't give a shit about HP.

Why the fuck not release an expansion-pack sequel in 2-3 years with new story and maybe Quiditch or some shit. Gaming industry is now too incompetent to milk a succesfull product or pander to casuals. This was their bread and butter a couple of years ago. I normally despise big publishers but Ubisoft must be staffed by some French elder gods of business since they've been putting AC games out for 17 years and somehow managed to not completely ruin the franchise in that time despite releasing new title every couple of years.

 

[cvv]

They cannot in any way be converted into a crowd that would support one game for years. At the same time people who would be interested in GAAS i.e children and dudebros don't give a shit about HP.

This.

There are a bunch gen Alfas in my wider family and friends and I can confirm their interest in, or even awareness of, HP is mostly zero. Most girls aren't interested in vidya at all (and the rest is exclusively into Roblox and related social gaming garbage) and most boys are into shit like FIFA, CS or assorted Nintendo.

HP is for normie genXers and millennials and I bet most of them didn't touch the game since they bought it.

 

[Caim]

I normally despise big publishers but Ubisoft must be staffed by some French elder gods of business since they've been putting AC games out for 17 years and somehow managed to not completely ruin the franchise in that time despite releasing new title every couple of years.

With the colossal flop of Skull & Bones, a game that Ubisoft themselves called a "AAAA" game, people just pointed at Assassin's Creed 4 (the pirate one) and said they'd rather want more of that.

 

[orcinator]

I can't believe a sequel to a AAA open world game would follow the live service trend.

I normally despise big publishers but Ubisoft must be staffed by some French elder gods of business since they've been putting AC games out for 17 years and somehow managed to not completely ruin the franchise in that time despite releasing new title every couple of years.

If your franchise was never good, the retard fans won't care about some entries being worse than others.

 

[Infinitron]

All this has happened before, all this is happening again. As I've said before, I believe Bethesda became an open world RPG powerhouse in so small part due to the fact that so many other studios capable of crafting large RPG worlds were chasing "WoW killer" MMO bucks.

 

[Caim]

All this has happened before, all this is happening again. As I've said before, I believe Bethesda became an open world RPG powerhouse in so small part due to the fact that so many other studios capable of crafting large RPG worlds were chasing "WoW killer" MMO bucks.

And then Bethesda stopped making large RPG worlds to chase the live service bucks.

Poetic.

 

[Gangrelrumbler]

I normally despise big publishers but Ubisoft must be staffed by some French elder gods of business since they've been putting AC games out for 17 years and somehow managed to not completely ruin the franchise in that time despite releasing new title every couple of years.

With the colossal flop of Skull & Bones, a game that Ubisoft themselves called a "AAAA" game, people just pointed at Assassin's Creed 4 (the pirate one) and said they'd rather want more of that.

Point taken. Forgot about that garbage.

I can't believe a sequel to a AAA open world game would follow the live service trend.

I normally despise big publishers but Ubisoft must be staffed by some French elder gods of business since they've been putting AC games out for 17 years and somehow managed to not completely ruin the franchise in that time despite releasing new title every couple of years.

If your franchise was never good, the retard fans won't care about some entries being worse than others.

Not really. You can start by making games for retards, and then fuck them up so bad even they can't take it any more. Like Mass Effect or Gears of War.

 

[Kiste]

Hogwarts Legacy 2 Is Probably Going to Be Live Service – WB Says AAA Console Market Isn’t Enough​

https://wccftech.com/hogwarts-legac...rvice-wb-says-aaa-console-market-isnt-enough/

Does this mean that they will somehow make it even more of a bland, empty and repetitive timewaster than the first game already was?

 

[deuxhero]

One trend I noticed over the years is that Live service games are like “e-sports games” and movie trilogies: they are either something that happens organically (i.e. a somewhat unexpected success story that keeps ballooning) or something that gets planned from the get go and more often than not turns into a complete stinker no one asked for.

It's like phone games: A small number (Fortnite, CoD) make absurd money, most don't break even and crash and burn within weeks.

 

[Zombra]

One trend I noticed over the years is that Live service games are like “e-sports games” and movie trilogies: they are either something that happens organically (i.e. a somewhat unexpected success story that keeps ballooning) or something that gets planned from the get go and more often than not turns into a complete stinker no one asked for.

I'm reminded of the Paul F. Tompkins story where he is concerned about his TV show losing popularity.
"We were told, ‘Hey, why don’t you make a viral video?’ Oh, ok. Thanks, grandma in charge of advertising. That does sound like a good plan. Should we make it viral, or just a regular video? It should be viral? Well, we’ll include viralness in it."

 

[Harthwain]

Gaming industry is now too incompetent to milk a succesfull product or pander to casuals. This was their bread and butter a couple of years ago.

It shouldn't be surprising that corporate suits have no idea what they're doing when making decisions. They are probably banking on the popularity of the franchise (which is what carried Hogwarts Legacy, to be honest. Although the key component was that it's competently done, for mainstream tastes at least).

There are a bunch gen Alfas in my wider family and friends and I can confirm their interest in, or even awareness of, HP is mostly zero. Most girls aren't interested in vidya at all (and the rest is exclusively into Roblox and related social gaming garbage) and most boys are into shit like FIFA, CS or assorted Nintendo.

HP is for normie genXers and millennials and I bet most of them didn't touch the game since they bought it.

I have no idea about the age groups, but since May 2024 the game is steadily played by 9k - 20k players (give or take). That's pretty good. At least according to Steam Charts.