The Daily Populous Friday June 7th, 2024 night edition
Authored by twistedvoxel.com and submitted by YouthIsBlind

Warner Bros Games and Avalanche Software’s action role-playing game, Hogwarts Legacy, is set to receive a Director’s Cut, based on the latest report.

According to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, many of Rocksteady Studios’ employees are now assisting with the development of a new Director’s Cut version of Hogwarts Legacy. Based on his sources, the studio leads are currently in the process of pitching a new single-player game to executives in an effort to return to its roots.

It’s currently unknown whether the new single-player title Rocksteady Studios is looking to pitch will be set in the DC Comics universe, though that may well be the case. There aren’t any details available on the Director’s Cut version of Hogwarts Legacy at this point, though it is expected to add new content and bring some Quality of Life improvements to the original release.

Rocksteady Studios’ previous title, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League failed to meet Warner Bros’ sales forecasts. During its Q1 2024 Earnings Call, Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav had mentioned that the quarter’s financials were “overshadowed” by the “disappointing” sales of Rocksteady Studios’ Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League in the Games group. He had also mentioned the great sales performance of Hogwarts Legacy last year as a contributing factor to the Year-Over-Year quarterly decline.

Not much has been done to address the issues that players have had with Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League since its launch. Given the lukewarm reception, it’s fair to say that its first post-launch Season was expected to be a make-or-break situation for the title. However, things didn’t quite turn out as expected, with Season 1 bringing no new story content. The pre-launch trailer for Season 1 had given the impression that it would add a new story arc in relation to Joker. However, that was not the case.

AzFullySleeved on June 6th, 2024 at 17:50 UTC »

At least give us an unlimited level cap. My rpg lizard brain doesn't want to game after I've hit any cap! Beat and loved the game. I just need a reason to jump back in, dlc or level cap increase would bring me right back!

farbekrieg on June 6th, 2024 at 16:08 UTC »

im curious what pitch rocksteady is going for in a single player game, and what WB wants them to make next with the idea the studio needs to put some polish on after the epic disaster that was SSKtJL

RaNerve on June 6th, 2024 at 16:01 UTC »

HW:L is so strange. They captured lightening in a bottle and broke records but had literally no plans to support it. No expansions or additional story at all. Not even a NG+ mode they could add later. Struck me as a really bizarre move. This game could have easily supported a 30$ story expansion that adds a new map or expands the existing one.

With so little to go off of who knows if this ‘Directors cut’ will amount to any substantial content or if it will just be QL fixes etc.