
Half-Blood Prince Brilliant Event Part 1.Dolores Umbridge Lethal Adversaries Event.Over the coming months, players will also be able to look forward to the following events, including the release of the remaining Lethal Adversaries: Spell Energy and Ingredients will appear on the map more frequently.1920s Portkey Portmanteaus will appear on the map more frequently and associated Fragment rewards will be doubled.Barrufio’s Brain Elixir potion will now award 3× player XP.The daily cap on sending and opening Gifts will be removed.All Potion Brew times will be reduced by 50% with Master Notes.All Daily Assignments will have their rewards increased.Wizards Unite players can look forward to some gameplay changes that will take effect on November 2, 2021: We’re happy to see Niantic wrap up the story line at least, as the upcoming months will be filled with gameplay changes and events. We suspect Wizards Unite didn’t do much better than Ingress, but the added cost of maintenance, plus a third party IP, does make it easier to axe WU than Ingress. We are curious to see what does this mean for Ingress, Niantic’s homebrew game that’s been in existence for ages now. Niantic recently pulled the plug on CATAN World Explorers, which was a game that didn’t event come out, so it doesn’t surprise that an existing not-so-well-performing IP would be shut down.

The player base doesn’t seem to be particularly surprised, and frankly speaking, neither are we. Niantic didn’t share much of the reasoning behind this decision, but we suspect that the game didn’t do nearly as well as they hoped it will do. The game will be removed from the App Store, Google Play and Galaxy Store on December 6, 2021, and players will no longer be able to make in-game purchases as of December 6, 2021. Niantic has shared that Wizards Unite will be shutting down completely on January 31, 2022.
