Hogwarts Legacy, the hugely popular Harry Potter open-world role-playing game, has see its upcoming expansion update cancelled while publishers Warner Bros Games restructure amid financial woes.
Despite the game selling over 34 million copies and being one of the best-sellers of recent years, Warner Bros have decided to cancel the planned expansion after deciding its content was not substantial enough for its price, reported by Metro to be around £20-£30.
The company has gone through a period of restructuring after financially poor results from releases like Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, a series of layoffs at partner studios like Rocksteady, and the cancellation of the upcoming Wonder Woman game.
Eurogamer reports that the studio is said to be focusing its resources on its biggest names: Harry Potter, Mortal Kombat, DC, and Game of Thrones.
While the expansion for the current game has been cancelled, a second game is in development at Avalanche Software, the Warner Bros. subsidiary that developed the first Hogwarts Legacy.
They had worked with the Rocksteady studio to create the original before they were hit with a round of layoffs. The remaining Rocksteady team are reportedly working on a new single-player Batman game, showing Warner Bros. intention of returning to their most iconic brands.
Hogwarts Legacy News: What was the planned expansion?
The plans weren’t publically announced, but Bloomberg reported on them last year and they were widely considered in the works for a release later in 2025.
The expansion would have added new storylines to the game and had been planned to be released alongside the “Definitive Edition” of the game which would include all available content.
The Hogwarts Legacy game serves as a prequel to the Harry Potter books, allowing fans to create their own wizards and explore the world made famous through the adventures of Harry, Ron and Hermoine.
Hogwarts Legacy is available to Harry Potter fans on PC, PS5, PS4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S. Having released in February 2023 it went on to becoming one of the best-selling games of the past decade and the best seller of 2023 with over 34 million copies sold and very positive reviews (90%) on Steam.
Warner Bros. released another Harry Potter game in 2024, but it has struggled to sell and even for buyers it has failed to remain relevant in the gaming landscape. Harry Potter: Quidich Champions now only averages a couple of hundred players online at any one time, compared to Hogwarts Legacy‘s thousands of active players.
