Summary
Warner Bros. Games has reportedly scrapped plans for an unannouncedHogwarts Legacyexpansion, which was expected to roll out later in 2025. Following multiple studios and other in-development projects,Hogwarts Legacy’s rumored DLC is the latest to bear the brunt of the American publisher’s financial struggles.
Post the mammoth success of the 2023 action-RPG,Hogwarts Legacy, Warner Bros. Games grew increasingly interested in expanding the video game offerings under theWizarding Worldfranchise. However, its efforts towards that end were met with a lukewarm reception asHarry Potter: Quidditch Championsgradually spiraled into obscurity after its launch in September 2024. In the same year, the publishing giant also endured theill-fated releases ofSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice LeagueandMultiVersus. The repercussions seem to have spilled into the development of expectedHogwarts Legacypost-launch content, which is now understood to be no longer in the pipeline.
Earlier in March 2025, the leadership at Warner Bros.-Discovery binnedtheHogwarts LegacyDLCas part of “ongoing restructuring” at Avalanche Software, per aBloombergreport. The publisher made the call after it felt that the game’s expansion wasn’t “substantial enough” to merit the “price being considered.” Alongside this, the “Definitive Edition” ofHogwarts Legacy, which would have featured the base game bundled with the rumored DLC, was also scrapped. According to the source, the DLC was being developed in partnership with Rocksteady Studios and would have revived some of the cut content from the base game, including a storyline that revolved around one of its companions. Fortunately, the report also states that the sequel toHogwarts Legacyis in active development at Avalanche Software.
Warner Bros. Games Ditches Plans for Rumored Hogwarts Legacy DLC
The latest move by Warner Bros. Games further adds to some major ways it has been participating in cost-cutting in recent months. In February 2025, the veteran game publishercanceled the highly anticipatedWonder Womantitleand also shuttered three different studios, includingMiddle-earth: Shadow of Mordor’s creator, Monolith Productions. Prior to that, there were multiple reports of layoffs taking place at Rocksteady Studios in the aftermath of the disappointing performance of its live-serviceSuicide Squadgame. The upheaval in the Warner Bros. games division reached all the way up to the top, with the company also understood to be negotiating the exit of its president, David Haddad, for later in 2025.
Although the new report spells bad news forHogwarts Legacy’s post-launch additions, fans may still expect the sequel to avoid facing a similar fate. Warner Bros. Games has previously underscored the importance of the fantasy-themed IP in its future plans, and there is little to suggest that the plannedHogwarts Legacysequelcould be in doubt.
Hogwarts Legacy
WHERE TO PLAY
Hogwarts Legacy is an immersive, open-world action RPG set in the world first introduced in the Harry Potter books. For the first time, experience Hogwarts in the 1800s. Your character is a student who holds the key to an ancient secret that threatens to tear the wizarding world apart. Now you can take control of the action and be at the center of your own adventure in the wizarding world. Your legacy is what you make of it.Explore an Open WorldThe wizarding world awaits you. Freely roam Hogwarts, Hogsmeade, the Forbidden Forest, and the surrounding Overland area.Be the Witch or Wizard You Want to beLearn spells, brew potions, grow plants, and tend to magical beasts along your journey. Get sorted into your house, forge relationships, and master skills to become the witch or wizard you want to be Experience a New Wizarding World AdventureExperience the wizarding world in an unexplored era to uncover a hidden truth from its past. Battle against trolls, Dark Wizards, goblins, and more as you face a dangerous villain threatening the fate of the wizarding world.
