I’m calling it right now — Turbine and Warner Brothers are going to make a Harry Potter MMO and it’s going to be designed in the same way that Dungeon and Dragons has been relaunched.  It seriously fits the Harry Potter game feel.  They’ll be able to design a Hogwarts Castle that all the players can hang out in like a city and do everything from socialize with their house mates to play quidditch out on the field.

They’ll use an extreme amount of instancing and a lobby system to make it work.  I bet players can get together and work through taking on various forms of evil and adventure with their friends.  It will more than likely be extremely accessible to younger crowds, but with more substance than Free Realms, while maintaining that fluffy worldly feeling.   Imagine the money they’ll make on a Harry Potter MMO like this, especially making it a F2P microtransaction game.  They can charge for everything from Gryffendor scarves to Nimbus 3000’s to the Dark Forest adventure pack.

It’s going to be interesting to see what comes out of this acquisition.  Owning all the Lord of the Rings games makes sense.  Obtaining a decent MMO developer makes sense.  Hopefully they do something with it beyond just consolidating the franchise or creating a F2P game out of one of the biggest IP’s out there.    Mark my words though, with the movie coming out and Lego Harry Potter, there will be a Harry Potter MMO coming out of all of this.

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