Hogwarts Legacy fans petition to keep sequel single-player, drop live-service

Hogwarts Legacy fans are scared Warner Bros will make the next game live-service, and are doing everything in their power to keep that from happening.

It’s no secret in the chamber that Hogwarts Legacy was one of the most successful video games in 2023, ending the year as its best-seller.

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With that in mind it’s all but inevitable that a sequel is on the way and while Warner Bros Games has teased its existence nothing has been explicitly confirmed at the time of writing.

That being said, recently Warner Bros has made several business decisions that have rubbed gamers the wrong way.

One of the big ones was shutting down the beloved media company Rooster Teeth, another was delisting a number of indie games without warning, and finally plans to focus on live-service games in the future.

For context, the most recent live-service game Warner Bros published was Sucidie Squad: Kill The Justice League, which majorly flopped and actually led to increased sales of Batman: Arkham games.

With that in mind fans are concerned Hogwarts Legacy 2 could be in early-development as a live-service game, and are doing anything they can to prevent that from happening.

This has led to a petition created by Kevin Malcom titled Stop Hogwarts Legacy 2 from being a Live Service, and it’s already accrued nearly 2,000 signatures.

In short the petition argues that not all live-service games, like Helldivers 2 are bad as some can be incredibly fun and well-designed.

However given Warner Bros track-record and with the disaster of Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League’s lack of content, there are concerns Hogwarts Legacy 2 will see its gameplay suffer in place of an in-game store.

Again, Hogwarts Legacy 2 hasn’t been officially announced at the time of writing but given the worrying trends in the gaming industry there’s every chance it’ll be riddled with microtransactions.