After the immense success with Pokémon GO, Niantic wanted to follow suit with another big brand in the AR area, but Harry Potter: Wizards Unite could not prevail. Now you will soon be pulling the plug.
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite was intended to transport the successful augmented reality formula from Pokémon GO into the Harry Potter universe. Since the release in mid-2019, the game has not been able to trigger such a boom as the Pokémon counterpart. Now the makers are pulling the rip cord.
Niantic has now announced that the Harry Potter: Wizards Unite servers will be taken offline in a few months; the game will then no longer work as a whole. The deadline for this will be January 31, 2022, according to the company on the official website.
The players are promised a narrative conclusion by then. If you want to enjoy the AR adventure until this finale, you have to download it quickly. From December 6th of this year, Niantic will no longer allow downloads via the Apple App Store, Google Play Store and Galaxy Store. In-game purchases will also be blocked on this date.
In the announcement, Niantic said of the setting, “Not all games are meant to last forever. Our goal with Harry Potter: Wizards Unite was to bring the magic of the wizarding world to life for millions of players when they go outside and theirs Explore the neighborhood. We did that together by delivering a two-year story that will soon be complete now. “
The experiences that have been made with the title should, however, be incorporated into the studio’s upcoming games.
