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[AJUMP23]

Sold like Hotcakes.

Concord should have made a game for the right bigots in order to have success.

 

[Tomofdahook17]

They'll likely add quidditch in the sequel.

Other than that, more of the same would be good.

Yep, I'm sure they'll just recycle the main castle, if not add more rooms and such.

Hopefully more gameplay depth such as quidditch and prefixes at night while sneaking around.

 

[proandrad]

Woke game sells a ton, or are we going to ignore that since this game pisses off the purple people?

 

[lughnasadh123]

There's a lot of room to expand on while keeping most of what people loved about the first one. Should be a slam dunk in sales.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

Harry Potter MMO! There is so much content they could do. Everyone is a student and different classes of mages etc to fight the evil!!

Omg that sounds awful

 

[Icymanipulator]

Bigger, more interactive environments, add Quidditch, and generally more of everything.
Seems like another home run.

 

[SportsFan581]

I fear it'll be gaas.

If it is, I hear that Sony has a studio that has recently become available, maybe they could take charge creatively.

 

[eerik9000]

Wait, the sequel hasn't been in production for a while already?

What the hell are they even doing over there.

Bro, you need to learn about capitalism. Just because a product was successful and made the company a lot of money doesn't mean shit. They cannot simply go and spend that money to make another product. That money doesn't belong to the company nor to any of its workers. It belongs to the owners of the company, i.e. shareholders. The board of directors, or whoever represents the interests of the shareholders, must always act to maximize the profits and value for said shareholders. Now, the board also can't just greenlight the sequel simply because the previous one was successful. You don't greenlight projects based on how well the previous one did, you greenlight them based on what you expect that project to do, and for that you need to consider a lot more factors and market conditions. You cannot just make a $300-million commitment with the hope of getting some of that money back in 5+ years. If you think you can do something more profitable in a shorter time, you will do that. Modern "AAA" games are just too expensive and take too long time to produce.

 

[StereoVsn]

Bro, you need to learn about capitalism. Just because a product was successful and made the company a lot of money doesn't mean shit. They cannot simply go and spend that money to make another product. That money doesn't belong to the company nor to any of its workers. It belongs to the owners of the company, i.e. shareholders. The board of directors, or whoever represents the interests of the shareholders, must always act to maximize the profits and value for said shareholders. Now, the board also can't just greenlight the sequel simply because the previous one was successful. You don't greenlight projects based on how well the previous one did, you greenlight them based on what you expect that project to do, and for that you need to consider a lot more factors and market conditions. You cannot just make a $300-million commitment with the hope of getting some of that money back in 5+ years. If you think you can do something more profitable in a shorter time, you will do that. Modern "AAA" games are just too expensive and take too long time to produce.

????

Shareholder or the board do not have any say on what the heck WB decides to produce.

Now, maybe WB management didn't immediately decide to green-light the sequel due to investing in other projects, but they clearly have right now. So money is being spent, they are just prolonging time to market.

This has 0 to do with pretty much the whole quoted stream of thought.

 

[Xtib81]

Somehow, they're gonna fuck up and turn it into Gaas or some shit.

 

[Madserb2023]

Harry Potter and the Philiopher's GAAS

 

[N0S]

You know they are gonna fuck up

 

[R3TRO]

Good

 

[XXL]

Thinking about buying this again on Steam to try it out in first person in VR.

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

I remember how PurpleEra was trying to cancel the game

 

[poppabk]

Bigger, more interactive environments, add Quidditch, and generally more of everything.
Seems like another home run.

The problem with Quidditch is it's totally nonsensical as a real game. The game they put out had to fudge the scoring to not make it dumb.

 

[LoveCake]

The first game was great, I just hope they don't screw the sequel up!

 

[Decal4]

Indeed, recycle the engine, add a few more spells, lots more stories, maybe soem new explorable regions around Hogwarts / travel to on the Hogwarts Express, off we go, done. They've shown that if you provide A) 3rd person action with spells, B) a fully-explorable, no loading zones Hogwarts, and C) lots of open world play, you can make a mint. So take my money!

Making the scolds angry is just a bonus.