Harry Potter’s legal wizarding tender includes bronze Knuts, silver Sickles, and gold Galleons. This currency has its own conversion rate from Muggle money, and thanks to the mythology’s fanbase, it is now common knowledge that there are 29 Knuts in a Sickle, 493 Knuts in a Galleon, and 17 Sickles in a Galleon. This exchange rate may or may not mean much inHogwarts Legacy, but the currency itself is set to appear in-game.
Hogwarts Legacy’s State of Play presentationdepicts a merchant’s wares in Hogsmeade, where the UI menu for purchasing items at Pippin’s Potions allots the amount of Knuts, Sickles, and Galleons players have. Then, each item shows how much it costs, such as a Wiggenweld Potion costing one Galleon. This all seems simple enough and behaves similarly to in-game currency systems in any other fantastical open-world RPG. But one question still remains: if players are indeed able to spend Knuts, Sickles, and Galleons, how will they first earn them?
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Hogwarts Legacy Players May Already Have Money at Gringotts
Firstly, it is important to consider thatHogwarts Legacymay already have a pool of Knuts, Sickles, and Galleons reserved for the player. InHarry Potterlore, it is not unusual for witches and wizards to house their coins in a subterranean vault beneath Gringotts,the wizarding bank that is located in Diagon Alleyand run by goblins.
Gringotts vaults are accessed via a rickety mine cart along a rollercoaster-esque track, which made for engaging and suspenseful sequences inHarry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stoneon PS1. In the movies, Harry learns that his parents had left a hefty inheritance for him within one of these vaults.
InHogwarts Legacy, it is entirely plausible that a similar fund will be available to players. Moreover, players may already have this money on their person at the beginning of the game. An Ollivanders wand shop is seen in Hogsmeade, for example, but the player-character is also seen riding an underground mine cart, which may suggest that players at least visit Gringotts.
Of course,Hogwarts Legacyonly needs to have money in Gringotts for players if WB Games Avalanche wishes for them to begin the game with some Knuts, Sickles, or Galleons in hand. If not, there may still be numerous ways that players can earn them inHogwarts Legacy.
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Players May Earn Knuts, Sickles, and Galleons Throughout Hogwarts Legacy
Regardless of whether the game starts players off with a sum of money or not, it would not make sense forHogwarts Legacyto have no means of earning more money if theirs is exhausted completely. Instead, it is more than likely thatHogwarts Legacywill choose to adoptmethods comparable to other open-world RPGs for earning in-game currency.
One such way could see players selling items or consumables to merchants inHogwarts Legacy’s Hogsmeade, perhaps from wares they loot or any excessive items they may craft and hoard. It is already known that certain materials and items that can be purchased from merchants have different costs between Knuts, Sickles, and Galleons, and the same currency system would most likely apply to selling as it does to buying.
Otherwise, it is possible that players may accumulate Knuts, Sickles, and Galleons if and when they loot areas, and money may also be part of the rewards for different quests that players may complete for other characters. Purchasing items does not seem like the only way to procure them, especially withHogwarts Legacy’s Room of Requirementat the player’s disposal. But certain clothing and other goods will be available thatHogwarts Legacysurely has a way for players to purchase, whether players earn money one way or another.
Hogwarts Legacyis set to release in holiday 2022 for PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
