Hogwarts Legacy players beg devs to stop nerfing items in a single-player game

Hogwarts Legacy players are begging the developers to stop nerfing items in the single player game.

Since its launch in February 2023, Hogwarts Legacy has benefited from various updates to enhance stability as well as make quality-of-life improvements. However, some of the updates have also nerfed some items in the game and players are not happy with that.

“For those of you unaware, the latest update NERFed the transfiguration barrel damage towards groups. Why anything is being NERFed in a single player game is beyond me,” jonlb87 posted on Reddit. “I also see people here asking to remove the killing curse. Just stop. Let me play my game how I want and you can play without using it.”

To be fair, we get where this player is coming from. More often than not, weapons and items mostly get nerfed in competitive multiplayer games. For example, weapons might be nerfed in Warzone 2.0 or abilities might be nerfed in Bungie’s Destiny 2.

The reason some nerfs are implemented can be down to a weapon or ability being OP, which will likely result in overuse by players encouraging them not to try any other available options. It can also get very repetitive when a multiplayer map is full of players using the same weapons or abilities, over and over again.

Sure, a nerf might be required in a single player game if an item might be too powerful or too weak. So in that instance, it can make sense. Yet, when items keep getting nerfed multiple times in single player games, gamers can get annoyed.

“Yeah wait what? Like sure, add it in as a difficulty modifier like in Horizon for people who want things easier/harder but wtf why nerf things hahaha, what about people who LIKE levelling up adding traits and getting powerful,” said KaladinVegapunk. “And remove Avada..people know you can just not use it right haha.”

“Maybe if the game had some sort of Morality system, and using AK just hurts your Paragon level by A LOT, it could be balanced,” suggested _Vard_. However, angel_player said what we’re all thinking, saying “Don't ever let them near my cabbages.”

Hogwarts Legacy is out now for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. It will then release for PS4 and Xbox One on 5 May 2023, followed by the Nintendo Switch on 25 July.