EA scrapped Harry Potter-based mmo game

Electronic Arts may have once worked on an MMO in the Harry Potter universe, but later scrapped it. That claims the former head of product marketing at EA in an interview. EA said Harry Potter “wouldn’t last long enough,” she said.

Former EA employee Kimberly Salzer reports this in an interview with Twitch streamer The Real Brandolorian† Salzer claims that the research on the mmo was completed and EA made a beta. The mmo game would be aimed at children and would have had online and offline elements, with physical ‘prizes and ribbons’ being sent to players. “Researched thoroughly, very confident in its success. It was lost, for lack of a better term, because EA was going through changes at the time and they just didn’t know enough or believed that the IP would have an expiration date longer than a year or so.” two.”

Salzer does not share in the interview when this took place, but she was chief of product marketing at Electronic Arts from 2000 to 2003, VideoGamesChronicle writes. The company had the rights to make Harry Potter games at the time. The first Harry Potter movie came out in 2001 and part two followed a year later. In turn, EA released two single player games in the Harry Potter universe between 2000 and 2003, which were based on the first two books.