Hogwarts Legacy Loses Popularity: But Why?

One of the most anticipated games of recent times. Hogwarts Legacy, finally debuted in February after delays. The production, developed by Avalanche Software, allowed the players to live the Harry Potter universe as they dreamed, which took them as students to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

As soon as the game came out, it received great acclaim from gamers and began to break sales records. It even became the most downloaded game of February on PlayStation. While all this showed that the game was highly appreciated, now some interesting data about the game has emerged.

25% of people who play Hogwarts Legacy don’t finish the game

In data from Steam, those who played Hogwarts Legacy only 25% of It turned out that he completely finished the game. It was seen that most players left the game without finishing the main story. Naturally, it was surprising to see such a rate in a game that received so much appreciation.

Let’s take a look at why this might have happened. Open-world RPG games such as Skyrim, The Witcher 3, and Elden Ring 25-30% rate of completion. In other words, such ratios are quite normal in such productions.

Most players may not want to spend hours on the main story in similar RPGs and play for a while and leave the game. Spend your time exploring the world etc. The number of people who spend on activities is also quite high. The fact that Hogwarts Legacy has many main and side quests also supports this possibility. Of course, there are those who say that some technical problems in the game may have caused this.

On the other hand, the Harry Potter series, the author of the books JK Rowling’s transphobic comments was under criticism. Rumors that JK Rowling’s income from Hogwarts Legacy went to transphobic organizations was one of the reasons why many wanted to boycott the game. For this reason, it was stated that the popularity of the game may have decreased. However, the fact that the production made millions of dollars by breaking sales records at the beginning shows that the low popularity may not have much to do with JK Rowling’s side.

The number of players in the game decreased 9 times

The decline in popularity of Hogwarts Legacy is also evident from the change in player numbers. According to the Charts page where Steam shows statistics, the number of concurrent players of Hogwarts Legacy as of today 56 thousand around When we look at February 15, we see that this number is around 511 thousand. So the number of players in a little over a month dropped more than 9 times.

What are your thoughts on the Hogwarts Legacy game? What could be the reason why it lost its popularity so much? You can share your thoughts in the comments.