After facing yet another delay, Hogwarts Legacy is set to hit PC and consoles early next year - 10 February, to be exact. The open-world action RPG is set well before the events of the main Harry Potter series, and will allow players to grow into whatever kind of witch or wizard they aspire to be. And yes, that means you can use the dark arts if you want to choose chaos.
Now, as reported by PSU, the game has received its official rating by the Australian Classification Board, which has uncovered some unexplained details about the game. It’ll include in-game purchases, and online interaction will be apparently incorporated in some fashion, too.
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One of these things makes a lot more sense than the other, as the FAQ page on the Hogwarts Legacy site has already addressed the inclusion of in-game purchases and what they’ll be for. It reads: “Players with the Hogwarts Legacy Standard Edition can purchase the Dark Arts Pack in-game separately, which is otherwise available exclusively in the Deluxe Edition. There are no other items for purchase in the game.” Just to hammer this point home, the answer to a separate question confirms that “there are no micro-transactions in Hogwarts Legacy”.
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More confusing though is the apparent existence of online interaction. The same FAQ page confirms that the game “is a single player experience and does not have online or co-op gameplay”, which totally rules out the possibility of there being any kind of multiplayer mode. We’ll just have to stay tuned and to see what the rating is referring to here - perhaps there’ll be a way to share your character’s profile online, or a leaderboard of some sort relating to a mini-game. Either way, it’s probably not going to be anything super exciting, so keep your expectations in check.
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