باعت شركة Hogwarts Legacy أكثر من 22 مليون نسخة، وتتفاخر شركة Warner Bros. Exec بأنها "اللعبة الأكثر مبيعًا لهذا العام في الصناعة بأكملها على مستوى العالم"

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Warner Bros. Games has announced that the Harry Potter action-RPG Hogwarts Legacy sold over 22 million copies by the end of 2023, with roughly 2 million of those sales over the December festive period. “But it’s not just the units sold that I’m so proud of, it’s just that it delighted the fans so much,” Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment president وقال ديفيد حداد لمجلة فارايتي.

Haddad is positively gushing about the game. “It brought Harry Potter to life in a new way for gamers where they could be themselves in this world, in this story,” says Haddad, “and I think that’s really why it resonated so well and remains the best-selling game of the year in the entire industry worldwide. That’s a position that typically is held by one of these incumbent’s sequel games and we’re so proud that we’ve been able to break into the top ranks.”

The odd phrasing of “incumbent’s sequel games” is referring to things like Call of Duty, GTA, Madden, NBA2K and so on: The latest entries in well-established series that have built huge fanbases over time. This does make Hogwarts Legacy an exceptional commercial performer: Even the critically acclaimed and top-selling Elden Ring didn’t outsell that year’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

Warner Bros. shared a bunch of fun facts about the game, with Haddad emphasising “many” players have gone through the game multiple times. Collectively they’ve played for 707 million hours, brewed 819 million potions, harvested 1.3 billion magical plants, rescued 593 million magical beasts, and defeated 4.9 billion dark wizards.

لكن الرقم الوحيد الذي يهم حقًا هو رقم المبيعات، لأنه يعني أن شركة Warner Bros. تنظر الآن إلى هاري بوتر مع وجود علامات دولار في أعينها أكثر من ذي قبل. لقد أعلنت بالفعل عن لعبة قادمة تتمحور حول رياضة كويدتش السحرية، والتي تشبه إلى حد ما لعبة الرجبي التي يتم لعبها على عصي المكانس، والتي هي حاليًا في مرحلة تجريبية.

“We don’t have any particular announcements on exactly how and when [Quidditch] is going to come to the market,” says Haddad, “but we are working to get it designed in a way just to delight fans.”

Then Haddad says there’s “a series of other things” coming that will let players “be part of this world and stories and characters in deeper and deeper ways.” There will almost certainly be a Hogwarts Legacy 2 at some point after this performance, though that would be a long way off, and it would be no surprise if the WB suits are currently running around green-lighting everything that has the word “Potter” on it.

Haddad has a bunch more to say about franchises and people “consuming content”, but this has been WB Games’ direction of travel for some time now and, yes, it’s driven by the idea of live service offerings. One potentially interesting thing Haddad says though is about “keeping live games launched with new content… and large launching new content.” I’m not familiar with “large launching” but presumably he just means, like, a big launch campaign. WB Games has said previously there are no plans for DLC or expansions with Hogwarts Legacy, but those sales figures (and the length of time it will take to develop any sequel) must have the executives licking their chops at the possibilities.

PCG’s review said Hogwarts Legacy is “Harry Potter’s Arkham Asylum moment” and أفضل لعبة فيديو أنتجتها هذه السلسلة حتى الآن (من المسلم به أن معظم الجهود السابقة كانت مرتبطة بالأفلام، لكنها لا تزال). على الرغم من المعركة الكبيرة عبر الإنترنت سواء كان من المناسب لعب اللعبة أم لا نظرًا لارتباطها بمؤلفة هاري بوتر جيه كيه رولينج، فقد لقيت Hogwarts Legacy استقبالًا جيدًا بشكل عام من قبل النقاد واللاعبين، وهي حاليًا ضمن قائمة ميتاكريتيك 84 ومتوسط نقاط المستخدم 8.5.