Hogwarts Legacy – surely some DLC could be conjured up? (pic: Warner Bros.)
Warner Bros. has been celebrating the massive success of Hogwarts Legacy but according to its director there are no plans for any DLC.
Controversy or not, Hogwarts Legacy is the biggest game of 2023 so far and the most successful Harry Potter game ever. By the normal law of sequels that means is guaranteed to be on the way, except strangely that doesn’t include DLC.
‘We’ve been really heads down bringing [Hogwarts Legacy] to life,’ director Alan Tew told IGN. ‘So at the moment there are no current plans for DLC.’
This puts Hogwarts Legacy in a similar situation to Elden Ring, in that while you’d normally assume major DLC was a given nothing’s been announced – although at least in that case both the publisher and developer have been hinting at it.
Tew is probably just being coy, perhaps trying to put people off from holding back and waiting for a Game of the Year Edition, and even if work hasn’t started yet there is almost certainly going to be a DLC expansion at some point.
If it’s not currently a priority though, it may be a good year or two before it arrives. Although there’s the possibility smaller additions could be made before that, as has technically already happened with the PlayStation exclusive quest.
Publisher Warner Bros. hasn’t yet revealed any sales figures for Hogwarts Legacy but it has stated that players have racked up over 152 million hours on the game, in just two weeks.
This includes brewing 242 million potions, defeating 1.25 billion dark wizards, and growing 393 million magical plants.
Web views for the game are also up by 39% on the 2018 movie Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald, which was previously responsible for the biggest spike in Harry Potter related online activity (which means the game must’ve easily beaten the third entry in the trilogy, the widely disliked The Secrets Of Dumbledore).
It’s less surprising that there’s so far been no mention of a sequel, although that seems inevitable too. It likely won’t arrive quickly, although hopefully it won’t take as long as the six years Hogwarts Legacy spent in development.
The game’s success is also likely to encourage Warner Bros. to make more extensive use of its many other IPs, especially the DC Comics universe, whose only recent big budget game was the disappointing Gotham Knights.
Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice is also out in May but the word of mouth for that has so far been poor, although that may change following its appearance in this week’s new State of Play.
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Warner Bros. has been celebrating the massive success of Hogwarts Legacy but according to its director there are no plans for any DLC.
