Hogwarts Legacy turned out to be one of many greatest video games of 2023, with Warner Bros. boasting it was the “best-selling recreation of the 12 months in your entire trade worldwide.” The expectation was that the sport would not obtain an growth or DLC however, with over 22 million gross sales, it seems just like the pondering might have modified on the writer.
A brand new report by Bloomberg tells the story of the chaotic improvement of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. Developer Rocksteady Studios, owned by Warner Bros., moved from the singleplayer Arkham video games into creating a multiplayer dwell service title, and the transition was a bumpy one which’s ended up with the writer taking an astonishing $200 million loss on that recreation.
On the finish of the report, nonetheless, it’s talked about in passing that whereas Rocksteady would not have a subsequent important mission to give attention to, Warner Bros. is retaining it busy within the wizarding world:
“Most of the studio’s workers are actually serving to to develop a brand new ‘director’s lower’ model of Hogwarts Legacy. On the identical time, in line with folks acquainted, the studio leaders want to pitch a brand new single-player recreation, which might return Rocksteady to its roots.”
To start with, sure, you possibly can interpret the latter sentence with Bat-goggles on. However that is the primary time a director’s lower of Hogwarts Legacy has been talked about, and from the angle of Warner Bros. this will need to have been a no brainer. The actual fact Rocksteady’s been co-opted to work on the mission additionally, sadly for Suicide Squad, implies Warner Bros. is quickly backpedalling from a recreation that was solely launched a couple of months in the past.
There is not any additional element on what a Hogwarts Legacy director’s lower would appear to be, although the sport’s developer WB Avalanche has been cautious to not over-excite followers prior to now, characterising its post-launch assist so far as “a small approach of us displaying appreciation to our gamers for the superb reception to the sport.”
That is as a result of among the hottest requests for the sport embrace issues like a NG+ mode in addition to a narrative growth, whereas different gamers simply need Quidditch (Warner Bros. has a standalone Quidditch recreation in improvement, so that is probably the most unlikely addition of all). A few of these dream requests would, nonetheless, come inside the scope of a director’s lower.
The information coincides with Hogwarts Legacy receiving a considerable new replace including, amongst different issues, a photograph mode. This contains varied Potter-style frames and filters, character poses, and varied different set-up instruments. Different additions embrace a respec possibility, and on PC the addition of a quest and rewards that had been beforehand unique to PlayStation, in addition to some beauty pre-order bonuses and a brand new pair of “taped-up spectacles”.