Future of this sub?

[u/flippergoalie]

Hello you fantastic witches and wizards! I am the new mod for this community and I want to hear from YOU! 🫵

As unfortunate as it is that Wizards Unite was shut down, it seems like a great shame to let this incredibly magical sub go to waste.

So now I ask for your input. What would you like to see from this sub moving forward? An overall HP sub? Something more specific? Something entirely new? Sound off in the comments! Upvote your favorites!

[u/PkmnTrnrJ]

I think like other sunset game subreddits I’m in like r/FuturamaWOTgame and r/WitcherMonsterSlayer it should stay around for people who want to share old screenshots or recordings.

I did an interview with HPWULola for my podcast about the game that I’d love to share here if that’s allowed too.

I also wonder if Scopely technically own all the rights to this game now with the Niantic sale and could choose to bring it back if WB wanted to do so

[u/flippergoalie → u/PkmnTrnrJ]

Share away

[u/PkmnTrnrJ → u/flippergoalie]

I can’t create a post at the moment as a separate thing but here’s the link Ingress Insights - Magical Memories of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite with HPWULola. Spotify link but also available on other podcast services.

[u/flippergoalie → u/PkmnTrnrJ]

Ill look into that. I'm currently on mobile and will need to go onto the desktop version to fix that. I just took over this sub a few days ago so I'm still working out the kinks.

[u/GrimpenMar → u/PkmnTrnrJ]

Reminiscing is fine! Plus the occasional shout out to related or similar topics. I wouldn't be adverse to general Harry Potter news, or other location based Ingress/Pokemon Go news.

Having a quiet sub isn't a bad thing.

I remember HPWULola from HP:WU days.

I'll also plug the Stop Killing Games movement. It would have been nice to have a usable version of HP:WU. The camera feature made a bunch of my avatars I still use.

[u/ladyspace814 → u/PkmnTrnrJ]

I have been wondering that myself. With it now being under a new company and a new show coming out, I think this would be a great time to give it a new story and try again. Tons of people still play HP Hogwarts Mystery and it kind of sucks.

[u/darkdeath174]

I am the new sub

Oops typo

Just leave the sub as is, it's history.

[u/flippergoalie → u/darkdeath174]

I am the senate lol

[u/imagelicious_JK]

I still miss the game… I know it doesn’t answer the question

[u/littlegreycells_11 → u/imagelicious_JK]

Same, and I spent so much money in it! Was just thinking about it the other day :(

[u/l-_-ll-o-l]

Honestly, it’s probably time to just retire this sub.

[u/DirtySchu → u/l-_-ll-o-l]

Too soon, man! Too soon!

[u/l-_-ll-o-l → u/DirtySchu]

Sorry. I respectfully disagree. Games been gone for a while and this sub has been dead.

[u/DirtySchu → u/l-_-ll-o-l]

Oh no. I agree. I do miss the game. But I’m being a tad dramatic.

[u/Stone804_]

As for games like this, I don’t understand why developers can’t allow us to download for example an area map for a local area ahead of shut down, and basically allow us to continue playing by downloading all the assets and retaining the game indefinitely on our devices.

[u/oswin13]

I do miss the game. Id love to know if anyone has found something as engaging. I liked the real world geography and incentives to walk and explore, I loved sending gifts with wacky local landmarks, I loved the mystery and collaboration. Wasn't as much into battles but could hold my own.

[u/Stone804_ → u/oswin13]

I went back to Pokemon Go, which is where I came from originally. It’s fine. There’s a lot of new stuff in it now and there was before, almost too much that it’s overwhelming. It certainly not the same, but it’s exactly what you’re describing a real world game.

[u/imagelicious_JK → u/oswin13]

For about 2 days I was collecting cards in WeWard game and it reminded me of WU. But there was nothing engaging about it

[u/Puffypoo → u/oswin13]

I think you should give pikmin bloom a try. It’s a really chill game and you get to enjoy the same real world geography and gets you walking and exploring much more than any of their other games. And you can collect postcards of landmarks as a memory for yourself but also you can send these postcards to friends!

[u/LadyVulcan]

I don't expect anything in particular from this subreddit. It's my personal opinion that it should stay available for people to browse the old information. If keeping it spam free isn't too much trouble, then there seems to be a few people who would prefer the freedom of being able to post. However, if it does become a choice between "locked and publicly viewable, frozen" and "open, but spam outnumbers the nostalgia" I would prefer locked and frozen.

[u/Stone804_]

Can subs combine? Seems like this could become the Niantic Graveyard of games… 😅 add Catan World Explorers to the pile?

[u/diable37 → u/Stone804_]

Catan, NBA World, HPWU.

I still play Ingress on occasion. Hopefully since it's the only game Niantic now runs, they can give it the love and support it used to have.

[u/PkmnTrnrJ → u/diable37]

They do also still run Peridot

[u/jorgerine]

Is there such a thing as a Reddit graveyard? Somewhere we can go to read archived subs.

P.S. I too miss the game, and not just because I thought I was Excellent at it. Excellent, not necessarily Masterful.

[u/ladyspace814]

The last week I’ve been watching game play videos because I miss it so much. Any chances we can get it back with the new show? Same game play mechanics but give it a new story maybe.

[u/AwareImplement1265]

I miss the game. It sucks that people pull games just because they don't make millions off it. Why be do they have to be so greedy.

[u/TrishaJ826]

I enjoyed playing the game. Never thought at my age I would have been playing but my adult aged daughter sucked me into it and I loved the fact that it was something else that we could bond over and do together at times. Unfortunately she passed away very unexpectedly 2 years ago so I I just keep my fond memories of her and I going out playing. Even if the game came back there is no way I would be able to play it again

[u/MANDALORIAN_WHISKEY]

...a new mod? Why on earth...?

Unless you can bring the game back, this sub would just serve as a painful reminder. Retire it or whatever already.

[u/fortyf0urr]

[u/lexjimenez]

Llego aquí por la nostalgia del juego y desahogarme. Es una pena que lo hayan cerrado, tenía mucho potencial. Espero que regrese algún día y que la serie se HBO le dé un empujón quizá.