1920s Wizarding World Convergence : Discover Fantastic Beasts and More!
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Witches and Wizards,
Prepare to jump into the memories of the past and visit Newt’s Menagerie, Circus Arcanus and Paris Street from the wizarding world in the 1920s! Pick up your wands and start on new adventures through the memories of a world from over a century ago, coming soon.
The 1920s Wizarding World Convergences will provide you with new events and new content from a completely different point in time. A new Registry family, 1920s Wizarding World, will provide three new Registry pages: Newt’s Menagerie, Circus Arcanus, and Paris Street. Each Registry page will provide four brand new stickers, allowing you to meet new characters and magical, fantastic beasts.
These events will feature unique Portmanteaus that provide a window into the past through AR experiences. Want to explore secrets hidden from the Muggle world? Hop into Newt’s Suitcase and see what quirky beasts lie inside. Intrigued about the magical government of the United States? Take a look around the MACUSA lobby. Feeling curious and want to see the most unique performances? Visit the Circus Arcanus and witness the fabled magical circus. Once you have collected five Wrackspurts from these Portkeys, you will be rewarded with a 1920s Encounter.
These unique Portmanteaus will only be available during 1920s Wizarding World Convergence events. To unlock a 1920s Portkey Portmanteau, insert a Key before the timer runs out. Any 1920s Portkey Portmanteau without a Key in it will disappear shortly after the 1920s Wizarding World Convergence ends. Once opened, you'll be rewarded with an exclusive 1920s Wizarding World Encounter and other valuable rewards!
Are you ready to see the wizarding world from a century ago? Our first 1920s Wizarding World Convergence is 18 August 12:01 a.m. - 20 August 11:59 p.m. local time.
Don’t forget to join the social conversation with #WizardsUnite, make sure to follow along on our official Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram channels for the latest updates, and head over to the Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Community Forums to discuss the game with fellow players!
-The Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Team
Update:
Due to a slight delay in our 2.18.1 update, we are pushing the 1920's launch event to 18 August - 20 August. We will run a spotlight event this weekend(7 August), stay tuned for details. Thank you!
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adventure sync isnt working and youre gonna release a feature that requires portks. A+ thinking there 'team'.
Squeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!😍😍😍😍😍
Excited about this event but more scared of the update and a more broken adventure sync. So 🤷♀️
@Drakonite, my thoughts exactly. And with this horrible heat wave much of the United States is suffering from.
Short time on the event. Fortunately I’ve already got my Brilliant portkeys done for this part so bring them on.
i dont care abt the heatwave i have in greece, i care i dont have AS as of 2.18 and i have ac'ed public transport for the heat.
And thanks for this kick....
I can't play unless I update🤬😡
fix bugsssssss first
postpone 1920s release for 14-15 aug. weekend, have cd during 7/8 and take the time to fix at least AS for ALL android devices/version supported by this -sorry excuse of a - game.
Hopefully the Portkey page is fixed before this event. And Adventure Sync too, but I've pretty much given up on that.
Portkey page and anventure sync need fix, but the silver key sale is fixed. Move on.
@HPWUTeam you literally just screwed up AS for the rest of us Android users who didn't have problems and expect us to be excited about a portkey focused event?? Postpone the event until you fix the bugs!
Honestly, you are coming across as reckless and insensitive right now. To launch a Portkey based event when a lot of the world is still in the middle of the pandemic, and the only potential adjustment (AdventureSync) is broken, is just a terrible, terrible decision.
Believe it or not, the world doesn't revolve around the state of things in America. Where I live, only 5% of the population are vaccinated and the overcrowding at vaccination centres is causing new clusters. People are dying in the streets. I kid you not - I went to the post office yesterday and saw two medics in full PPE putting someone in a bag on the sidewalk. It has completely freaked me out.
So maybe, just maybe, events that encourage people to get outside and walk should be put on hold... At the very least until Adventure Sync is fixed. At least AS means that people can walk round their home and it counts. Otherwise, you are just encouraging people to break the law, break lockdowns, and put themselves at risk.
My AS has been broken since December. Their "fix" is to not have AS at all. Life gets better when you give up on them ever fixing it and just coping with the fewer port keys 😓
I propose we collectively boycott 1920s until they fix AS.
We have been waiting without any real new content for months. A lot of players I know had all their goals completed over a year ago (full registry, level 60 etc). The only new content in the entire year was adversary feared and one registry page. That’s not enough, but people continue because of hope. Hope that bugs are fixed, hope that new things will come.
When you finally get new content, and it’s timed with even more bugs, it’s the hope that is gone. AS was bad for our Android friends, and now it’s worse. Then you say, take a portkey based event. To the same player base you told you their feeling when you had the dragon egg events and almost everything else with portkeys. Are you even listening? Should we still have hope that things will improve? Someday?
Niantic, pls cease and desist your countless false promises of “bug fixes”. It’s like the boy who cried wolf. After a few times of not delivering on your promises, I assure you faith and credibility are eroded irreparably. Please do not release a new toy into the sandpit when the sand is all but dirty and full of bugs. 1920 release? Via portkeys? Kindly check that players are indeed able to maximise play….last I heard, Adventure Sync for Android is a fossil. And a joke. Aren’t you then setting these players up for disappointment and disillusionment when distance fails to clock and 1920 reveals are all but lost? Wake up and clear that filthy sandpit, Niantic, for soon, no kid will ever play there since all your shiny new toys are broken and fail to live up to expectations.
AdventureSync is broken. Fix it, please, before 1920s event. Thank you
Fix the game 1st!!!
If you don’t check all the threads please note this happens again later in August -
1920s Wizarding World Convergence: 18 August 9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. local time
Since our Adventure Sync hasn't worked since the latest update and portkeys can't be opened, I don't understand the point of this announcement. I never had a problem with AS before. I've turned it off, exited, reentered, turned it on, Uninstalled/reinstalled Google Fit, disconnected/reconnected Google, stopped/started Samsung Health. I can find where y'all are addressing every issue but this one. Is the rumor that y'all aren't prioritizing fixes for Android users true? Surely Niantic wouldn't be so foolish to cut half their users out of their games.
Postpone this! I can't even get the daily task of walking a quarter of a km done by walking around my house each day any longer since the "upgrade". Before AS, I could pace through my house on a break and have it count, but that doesn't even work post update. I only completed yesterday because I had to drive to an appointment.
How can you launch this when a fundamental portion of the mechanics to complete this task is broken?
When will adventure Sync be fixed?! Since the 1920's event is centered around limited-time only portmanteaus this needs fixing ASAP! So when can we expect that fixed since the event starts in TWO DAYS?!?!
@BlazenBajan the 1920s event starts next weekend, the adversary event starts in 2 days and that has no portks. But I dont expect them to fix AS before then either.
Not cool at all to release 1920's without fixing Adventure Synch, how are we suppose to play?!
Not worth trying for the 1920s event without AS working.
Adventure sync stopped working after the December 2020 update (7.5 months ago) for me (Android 8).
Saying "walk around with app open all the time" is a rubbish workaround: 1) it does not count distance while walking inside the house since game GPS considers it no movement; 2) it does not count distance from treadmill; 3) it kills my phone battery to constantly have screen on & game running; 4) it causes phone to get really hot; 5) with phone in pocket with screen on & game running, buttons in-game get accidentally tapped which can result in gold, potions, etc being spent.
I've spent real money on this game to buy gold. I went to Fanfest (flight, hotel, food, etc cost). I've completed both the exploration and challenges registries, including finishing gold frames on all the feared adversary pages. But the new content being released, the three 1920s registry pages, depend on portkeys. Since last December's update, I open less than a fifth of the portkeys I previously did due to Adventure Sync being broken. I will not spend my money due to a game bug that Niantic/Portkey Games has refused to fix for 7.5 months.
Since the new content is based on portkeys and Adventure Sync is broken, it means I can NOT participate in this new event. If I cannot participate in the new content (and with the old content being completed), I can NOT justify continuing to play this game. Please do something: either fix Adventure Sync for all Android users (not just for Android 10+ users) or delay this new content until you are able to provide a fix.
@Owl515
Have you tried the Amdroid game dock to lock the screen while the game is open? I used it before the AS feature was introduced to open portkeys and it works nicely. It reduces battery drain by significantly dimming the screen and prevents errant button pushes. It's a decent workaround for Android users. Doesn't fix the at home GPS issue, but it does help.
The game is NOT designed or intended to record distance from a treadmill. I'm sure you know this, but since AS allowed it to work for a time, many got used to it. The point of the game is exploration and the Pandemic threatened to end all gameplay. Fortunately Niantic found some not so perfect but acceptable workaround, until some folks (not accusing you) decided to take advantage of these things through cheats and accelerated achievements. Niantic attempts to lock those cheats down broke AS for Amdroid.
Now we have to return to gameplay the way it was originally launched, although with the GPS change, it means some folks may have more trouble.
Niantic's challenge is to keep the game going with fresh content without making that content so easy to get that advanced players and those taking advantage of cheats, finish it within a single event. Poof, new content no longer new followed by complaints of the game being too boring.
This 1920s event is interesting and it's even more interesting that the collected portkeys will disappear after the event, unless they have a key in them. More evidence they are trying to make the content hold for longer.
So, if I understand this correctly, we get 3 new pages with 4 stickers each, and to fill those out we have to walk portkeys for which we have 24h. Hm...
I'll be interested to see how this works out (specifically how hard it is to open the portkeys and how many are needed to prestige the page), but right now this smells like a very obvious cash grab... ...which is funnily fitting given that the movies these portkeys seem to be based on are by many considered blatant cash grabs as well 😋