Harry Potter was going to have an MMO, but Ea minusvalued what he had in his hands

Just when the Hype by Hogwarts Legacy, the RPG of Harry Potter, is at its most acid point, we have known a fascinating revelation. As recorded by the Media Games Chronicle in a news, the former Director of Product Marketing of Electronic Arts revealed in an interview with the Streamer The Real Breandorian that the company worked on a MMO of the license.

An MMO, or Massive Online Multiplayer, is a genre with permanent connection in which players live adventures and relate to other users within a digital environment. This genre belong titles such as World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy XIV or the recent New World, and it would have been a ball taking into account the success of the franchise... But that's not what Ea thought.

We did all the research work, we had the beta prepared, and it was a combination of online / offline experience where we would send things to the players after our market studies, we believed that we were going to be successful. But it was killed, In the absence of a better term, because EA was going through different changes at that time, and they did not know, or did not believe enough that an IP like is going to have a life on shelves greater than the year or two., Salver explains.

It should be noted that Salver worked in EA during the years 2000 to 2003, so it was an early moment of the massive online game. Of course, during that period of time, Harry Potter's films were from the most views of the planet and the books were a sales success. P strange sand that EA did not trust the license to sell video games to MANDALA.

In fact, although it is a job focused on the offline game, Harry Potter Hogwarts Legacy, would not stop looking for the same premise as MMO: Let us live the life of a student of magic in the world of Harry Potter.

Harry Potter Hogwarts Legacy is being developed by Portray Games and Avalanche Studios, and has planned its departure for next year 2022.

Fountain.