Warner ‘sets expectations’ for Hogwarts Legacy’s free summer update | VGC
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“Additional updates and features” will be “a small way of us showing appreciation to our players”…
  • ScrubblesEnglish
    36•4 months ago

    See, here’s a game that WB owns, that players actually kind of liked and desperately want more content out of, and they can’t figure out how to make money in the easiest of situations.

    Literally any half assed DLC could be added to this game, have a $20 price tag slapped on as DLC, and I’d wager 70-80% of people who played it would buy it. A new professor. A new class to take. A new dungeon.

    They built a huge beautiful world that feels completely empty, the game was fun, but it desperately needs more added onto it. How do these idiot execs not see that it’s a dump truck full of money sitting there just waiting? They could milk this game for years and get free money.

    Instead… a small free update for a subset of them. Just… do they not want the money?

    • @GrassEnglish
      22•4 months ago

      Too busy delisting smaller games

      Edit: and probably whatever supposed tax evasion scam that goes with that.

    • @[email protected]English
      10•4 months ago

      I think it’s a classic problem in arts. The initial game was easy money: make a good Harry Potter branded game and if it even did 1% of the numbers that the books did it’s a slam dunk.

      The cost to add DLC is enormous and based on the way the game was received (lots of controversy when it came out) and the natural fall off of any videogame player base, the money might still be good, but it won’t be guaranteed. And that’s the only thing corporations as big as WB care about.

    • Saik0English
      4•4 months ago

      They built a huge beautiful world that feels completely empty

      Exactly why I stopped playing it. The moment the gameplay shifted to outside of the school… I tried my damned hardest to complete the game. Just couldn’t. Too boring.

    • @[email protected]English
      6•4 months ago

      I read it as saying the current PlayStation exclusive content (apparently you get to buy a shop and there’s a whole Thing when you go in there) will be made available for everyone else.

      So that’s nice. Those of us that don’t have a PlayStation can now experience everything we’ve already paid for.