EA‘s former director of product marketing from 2000-2003, Kim Salzer has said in an interview that it was planning to release a Harry Potter themed MMO but dropped the project believing the franchise would only last “a year or two”.As spotted by VGC, in an Twitch interview with Original Gamer Life the former EA executive claimed that EA had “thoroughly researched” a Harry Potter MMO, which would blend an online and real life experience.
The intention was that the game aimed at children, would also send “prizes and ribbons and stuff like that” out to the players.EA came ever so close to developing a Harry Potter MMO.
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