Niantic announces the closure of Harry Potter: Wizards UNITE

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The Harry Potter Partnership (additionally called HPA, in Spanish Harry Potter Partnership) is a non-profit organization generally managed by Harry Potter fans. It was founded by Andrew Slack in 2005 to stand out to the infraction of civils rights in Sudan. Ever since, the organization s projects have concentrated on issues such as proficiency, the migration reform of the USA, equal rights Economic, the civil liberties of gays, sexism, workers legal rights, mental health, body picture as well as climate modification. They have gotten recognition in the Harry Potter neighborhood and also have actually been subject from several scholastic researches on activism of fans as well as public interaction amongst youth.

While WB Games Legacy Hogwarts continues to be forgotten, things end badly for other project Harry Potter franchise. Yet raised by Niantic and its experience in augmented reality, Harry Potter: Wizards UNITE will close on January 31, 2022.

Launched in June 2019 in the wake of the World Carton of Pokémon Go, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is far from having known the same trajectory. According to Sensor Tower estimates, the game was credited with 3 million downloads for a small million dollars of sales for its launch week, far from the 24 million downloads made by Pokémon Go and from Its $ 28 million spent on the same time. In total, Sensor Tower believes that the Harry Potter game generated $ 39.4 million, compared to $ 5.5 billion for Pokémon Go.

As of December 6, 2021, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite will be removed from the App Store, Google Play and Galaxy Store, and players will no longer be able to make any purchases. To please the last fans, Niantic has made some changes since yesterday, as the increase in rewards, the 50% reduction in preparation time or multiplication by 3 of the player experience, the idea being able to have fun and Spend the gold accumulated during all events that will still take place.

The players will not be able to benefit from a reimbursement for purchases made, unless the applicable law in force requires otherwise, but they will always be able to use gold and their objects at stake until the closing of the servers, the 31 January 2022. We have planned a variety of events for the coming months, so you will have more than one opportunity to spend the gold remaining. The purchases at play will be disabled on December 6, 2021, explains the FAQ.

Despite the disappearance of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, other games of the franchise remain available on mobile as Harry Potter Secret at Hogwarts (Jam City) and Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells (Zynga). But the moment of the moment is called Harry Potter: Magic Awakened, a Card RPG produced by Netease Games for the moment at the Chinese market, where he has made shattered debut by tearing the first place of the IOS income rankings the week of his Exit, position normally occupied by the Tencent games like Honor of Kings or Peacekeeper Elite.