It's a nice luxury, but I doubt they'd go this far. The most they'd do is put us through a personality test or something (which is basically how you get sorted in the wizarding world site anyway) but I can also see a lot of people wanting the ability to just choose and that option would appeal more to the casual audience who is bound to pick up this game.

Completely unnecessary, in my opinion. I want to play the game, and character customization is part of the game. I don't want to load a profile that will auto give me a wand and house based on previous data. Not to mention, there isn't much to customize anyway other than house and wand (and patronus). Besides, if those are customizable, you already know what you got on Wizarding World, so just enter those, that's 3 clicks. I hope dev spend time on something that is actually important.

It would be...if I were planning on playing myself in the game, which I'm not.
I already have my first four characters roughly planned out***** - House, backstory, personality, etc, etc, - and they are all very distinct and very different from me, so it wouldn't make sense for them all to have the same wand, House, and Patronus as I do.

*****Because that's just the type of person I am.

I voted for this idea because I agree... BUT I think it would be more fun to go through the process of picking everything out anyways, to see the options even if I end up choosing the same wands, it'll be fun to choose them.

Character customization will suck, don't ask me why, i just know it will suck.

Blood status for me, it would be amazing if the NPCs react differently to you depending on your blood status, especially Slytherin NPC's. Not only that, even having a few perks related to the blood status, having blood status in-game dialogues options (basically the Cyberpunk 2077's equivalent of the Life paths's in-game based dialogues options (Nomad, Street Kid, Corpo)

Clothing so I can wear my Slytherin’s robe whenever I want. I don’t really care about the « type of wizard » because I want to play some regular character, not so powerful, nor insignificant. Blood-status and face’s customizations are also important to me.

I feel like the type of Witch/Wizard you are is such a game changer that they won't let you choose it, I mean, seeing into the future or being a werewolf is something that can drastically change the plot and gameplay, so it will either be ommited entirely or a character quirk you have by default.

I want all of these

Everything tbh

With mods yes, otherwise no

no after you’ve started

Look for the scissors icon in hogsmeade. You can change the complexion a tiny bit, along with adding scars, changing hair and eye color

Normally you have some randomized characters on a screen where you pick your character's gender and after you pick that you can customize it. Though you can still always customize character later when you click on the profile/character icon later (everything but gender/house).

There’s a shop in Hogsmeade where you can do this

Oh yes, and Mods are rather fun too.

I change my hair after every story mission with goblins/ashwinders so they don’t recongnize me so easily. Just adding to the lore lmao

No other shops like that I’m afraid.

You can’t change your face shape, name, or gender, but yeah, pretty much everything else is up for grabs.

I play it a lot, and I have a save for each house just before the hogsmeade troll, because I find the forced stuff before that a bit repetitive, so I go from there and do the troll, then head off to the hairdresser to pick my look, then play on.

I completely agree! I’ve loved the game, but I feel like I’m playing a demo. The main quest isn’t long enough and I don’t feel fully satisfied, so much so that I refuse to finish the main quest as in my mind that means the game is over - even though there is a load of side quests.

It would be great if they added more beasts or even did an add on for collecting more beasts and main missions for that. Considering we have the fantastic beasts films, they could have done a lot more there. Would also love to see more lesson quests, not just the assignments! More clothing that you could customise would be great, so many items I liked but despised the colour. More hairstyles too. Buying an owl would’ve been incredible. I feel like they missed things that everyone wanted to experience in Harry Potter.

My BIGGEST moan is the main quest - not only for the length of it but also the story. I found it really hard to dislike Isidora, I saw her point a lot throughout the game, she wasn’t a completely evil person, which makes it really hard to want to make the right decision in the end.

I hope they make another game! There is so much potential there, hopefully they will take our points on board

This is so minor but I'd love the player character to say "Nox" when they cast lumos a second time and extinguish their wand.

Also cool would be a talent for Alohamora that removes the mini game (or say, if it removed it for level 1 locks when you learn level 2, and removed it for level 2 when you learned level 3)

For starters I am halfway through my I've been watching someone play Persona 3 and I noticed that the other characters in that game feel so much more alive than in Hogwarts. People don't talk in a natural way. Like you go up to a teacher and you ask them about their life and they just go on a long monolouge. In Persona the characters talk with each other. Their personalites bounce off of each other.
Another thing is the spell system is too convuluted. It isn't fun every few minutes to have to sort through your list of spells and assign them to a spell wheel in order to have the right ones for a fight, puzzle, or designing a room. It can also make combat somewhat overwhelming when you are trying to sift through your spell combos for the right one. I don't know why they didn't just do something like Shadow of War where your spells are tied to button combos.
The aesthetic is phenominal but I so wish there were story lines and events for all of the cool locations they built so they feel lived in. I think that is my main complaint is that they built such a beautiful world but it feels a bit lifeless.

Need some Harry Potter themed Gwent. Hwent?

I really do want to be able to customize my character more because it just felt so limited. My first played through I wanted MC to represent me, but I couldn’t get her to look like me because of how limited the options were

Yeah the customization is extremely limited which in my opinion sucks but they might update the customization.

There aren't too many hairstyles and other such things to choose from. But the gameplay and artistic style definitely won't let you down.

Limited as the options may seem, you don’t see too many of the same looking character

I believe they will update soon. A lot of stuff can be developed.

Customization is limited (about 3 different styles per feature) but they will be releasing skins.

I would like some variation on the romance system or friendship system. Of course, they are all minors, so it shouldn't be more than the last dialogue with Poppy, for example, when you both agree to have some butter beer in three broomsticks. But you can't ruin your relationship with character if you just do their quests. Also I would like your house to have more value. It's just nothing to do there while the location are beautiful themselves. More people in a room, some scenes like in a Harry Potter movie when they are just chilling together. Could be like pajama parties for Hryffindor or some social gathering I a main room for Slytherin. There was absolutely no need to get back to your room while it can be some safe space. I am a Slytherin student in a game, but there was only Sebastian for the real friendship. Ominis is a cutscene guy. The girl just gives you a broomstick challenge, and that's it. You mostly travel and speak with the guys from other houses, and there are like 5 of them total. The ending proves my point, it felt like there are 10-12 people in a whole Hogwarts

I had just briefly mentioned this to a friend, and even tho I know its rumored to be in “accordance” with the new Harry Potter TV show, I wish it were a take on maybe working as an auror for the ministry. There are so many other avenues that the Harry Potter universe can explore. Personally, I think an RPG about stopping some new dark wizard cult while solving other cases as an auror would be excellent. You could decorate your own section of the department of ministries (to fill the room of requirement niche), travel to London/surrounding cities and rural areas, explore the wizarding underground if there is one, etc.

I think it could brew some really neat gameplay scenarios rather than just being a god student who stops a bad guy and saves the school.

Everything you mentioned. Also an actual house point system. More attention to the actual Hogwarts and the immediate grounds around it, some kind of honor system perhaps? Makes no sense that I can cast unforgivable curses and nobody gives a damn about it. Better dialog in general because it sounds extremely robotic. The common room playing a more important role. Quidditch. The basic ability to have meals and butterbeer at The Three Broomsticks, eat breakfast/lunch/dinner in the Great Hall.

I just want them to play Bully a few times and use that as a blueprint. That's how you do a school simulator. I don't know how a game from 2006 feels more alive and polished than a game from 2023.

My wants:

1. The Patronus Charm

2. A companion system

3. Romance options (even subtle ones work)

4. A quidditch season

5. Repercussions for choices made in the first game

I hope we can edit. I was really hoping to be able to give my character a tattoo as a reward for maybe a story milestone or something. Or change tattoos or hairstyles from time to time because I'm indecisive.

If they don't introduce Tleilaxu flesh vats where you can change your appearance and add faction-unique tattoos and scarring then they should have their licence revoked.

I hope that you would be able to change your appearance.

Nope. Once it's set, it's set.

As of right now we don't know. It's safe to assume it's permanent. I think it would be cool if they added character customization to the social hub for a cost.