Kim Salzer: Last News

EA’s director of product marketing from 2000-2003 has revealed details on why a Harry Potter MMO was cancelled.In an interview with Twitch Streamer The Real Brondolorian, as reported by Eurogamer, Kim Salzer, an ex-EA employee, was asked about a game that was never released. “A big one for me, because I was so personally involved in it, and it’s such a huge IP that has lived on is an online massively multiplayer game for Harry Potter.”“We did all the research, we had the beta built out, it was a combination offline/online experience where we’d actually mail stuff to the kids, like prizes and ribbons and stuff like that,” she continued.“Thoroughly researched, very confident in the success of this.

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.