

Once you find all five, you'll be brought to a screen that shows you the rewards that you have unlocked. You could receive ingredients, items, XP, or even Spell Energy, and you'll see them stacked at the top of the screen. Each Wrackspurt will give you something to find it, and it seems to be pretty random.

They appear as small glowing orbs, and tapping on them lets you find them. Once you have been transported to the new location, you'll need to find five Wrackspurts hiding there. Harry Potter Wizards Unite step through Portkey (Image credit: iMore) Instead, use Barrufio's Brain Elixir potion to give you an XP boost and then open up several in quick succession to get the most XP. When a Portkey is ready to be opened, you'll get a notification from the app, but you don't need to open it right away. The only Portmanteau that does look different on the map is the Brilliant Portmanteau, which is only available during Brilliant Events. Your inventory can hold up to ten Portmanteaus at a time, but there is no way to tell what size Portmanteau appears on the map until you tap it to add it to your inventory. Much like eggs in Pokemon Go, they are items that require different distances to unlock with keys before you can see the actual Portkey. There are four different varieties of Portmanteaus that you will find, Prized, Precious, Paramount, and Brilliant Portmanteau Portkeys. They are the triangle topped items that appear on the map in the same way you find Ingredients or Traces. So perhaps the shutdown of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite reveals that while walking around and interacting with digital objects might work in the Pokémon universe, it can’t be applied seamlessly to any other franchise.Harry Potter Wizards Unite portkeys (Image credit: iMore)Īs you wander across the world, you'll find a variety of different Portmanteaus. “The social features are a great example of that those were built to support Pokémon GO, but were built to be easily adopted by other games.” “As we built things, particularly for Pokémon GO, we tried deliberately to make them part of a platform that could be re-used in other games,” Hanke told TechCrunch at the time. Niantic CEO John Hanke noted in an interview with TechCrunch upon the release of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite that the system the game used was built for Pokémon GO and Ingress. Niantic told TechCrunch that employees working on Harry Potter: Wizards Unite will be redirected to other projects. In a blog post today, Niantic said it had nine games and apps in its development pipeline, including some that will soft launch next year. Niantic is also working on Transformers: Heavy Metal, a game that will let users battle giant robots in AR. The sunsetting of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite comes after Niantic debuted a new game last week, Pikmin Bloom, developed in collaboration with Nintendo. Despite the pandemic, Pokémon GO had its highest-earning year in 2020, grossing over $1 billion, and the app is already earning even more than that this year, with $1.1 billion so far. No refunds will be available “except where otherwise required by law,” the game wrote in its announcement.Įven though the fantasy game posted decent numbers after its initial release, it was clear from the get-go that it wasn’t reaching the same levels of success as Pokémon GO. Players won’t be able to make in-app purchases after December 6 either, but existing in-app purchases like Gold can be redeemed in the game until January 31. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite will officially become unplayable on January 31, 2022, but after December 6, the game will be removed from all app stores.
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But it turns out that popular franchise plus augmented reality game doesn’t always equal success. The company that brought us Pokémon GO debuted Harry Potter: Wizards Unite two years ago, following a similar formula to their initial smash hit. Niantic’s augmented reality game about the boy who lived is about to die.
