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We’ll see what the future holds.įollow me on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. And yet the entire concept does not work as a whole, and as such, I am not surprised to see the game struggle with a tiny fraction of the playerbase and engagement of GO. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is an augmented reality mobile game that asks users to explore the real-world in search of magical creatures and artefacts that. There’s a lot going on in Wizards Unite and most of it is polished well.


The core concept of the game, these foundables, are here to stay, and that's the main problem. And yet that's something that can be changed and balanced in time. Yes, Wizards Unite also suffers from over-monetization which I've written about already.
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It isn’t engaging the way building a full Pokedex is in GO, or training up your monsters to be powerful raid fighters or gym defenders. The Harry Potter: Wizards Unite potions are a huge part of the game, and so, weve put together a helpful guide on the potions lists, recipes/ingredients, and brewing.
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Sometimes concepts do not work with certain IPs, and Harry Potter, a series which is all about immersing you in a magical fantasy underworld, does not work with asking players to walk around the real world catching random magical pieces they’re supposed to remember from a line or two in a book or a scene or two in a movie.
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Even if we weren’t catching Crystal Balls and shards of Luna Lovegood’s younger self, and instead catching magical creatures in a way that lined up with Newt’s movie quest, people still don’t care about Harry Potter’s made up slew of magical animals like they do Pokémon, and it just would have felt like a half-hearted version of GO regardless. Niantic is giving Harry Potter fans in Australia and New Zealand the chance to be among the first to wave their augmented reality wands and vanquish rogue magical. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is co-developed and co-published by Niantic, Inc. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite was a mobile game presented by Pottermore in collaboration with Warner Bros. None of this works at a fundamental level, but I don’t even think a Fantastic Beasts game would have made much of a difference. From the makers of Pokémon GO, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is the real-world augmented reality (AR) game inspired by the Wizarding World that puts magic in the hands of players worldwide. Why do I care if I return the 11th copy of the Weasley magical clock back to their house? Why am I invested in making sure Professor Sprout isn’t being tormented by magic roots and can go back to hanging out on Platform 9 3/4s? The problem is that players are just not going to have any kind of attachment to most of the weird crap you are being asked to find in Wizards Unite. This timeline is supposed to be taking place post-Hogwarts where Harry Potter is an Auror and Hermione works for the Ministry of Magic, and yet you will find younger “fragmented” versions of them out in the wild to rescued for…reasons? I have never figured this out.

The objects in quest are called “foundables” and range from objects you heard mentioned once across seven Harry Potter books (Remembralls! Howlers!) to creatures (Hippogriffs! Mandrakes!) to then…actual people, pretty much every major named character in the books. Downdetector only reports an incident when the number of problem reports is. It is common for some problems to be reported throughout the day. This chart shows a view of problem reports submitted in the past 24 hours compared to the typical volume of reports by time of day. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is an upcoming augmented reality (AR) real-world game inspired by the Wizarding World that puts the magic in the hands of. Niantic’s Harry Potter AR Game, Wizards Unite, Will Be Shut Down This January. However, not all fans of the boy wizard and J.K. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite outages reported in the last 24 hours. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is a more interesting and polished game than Pokémon Go, yet is too much of a spiritual successor for its own good. With its release this week, Harry Potter: Wizard Unite serves as something of a follow-up, bringing a lot of Pokemon Go's sensibilities into the Wizarding World.
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There is some spell that cast magical creatures, objects and people out into the world, and you have to go put them back where they came from. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite has now come out of beta and is available for Android and iOS devices around the world. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is the latest mobile game from Niantic, the team behind Pokémon Go, where players venture out into the real world, team up with other wizards, and battle the forces of. The problem is that the solution that was invented here is wildly weird and nonsensical.
