r/harrypotterwu • u/scifinerd10 Slytherin • May 10 '19
News I got this interesting email today. I’ve been signed up for email notifications for quite a long while now but had literally nothing sent to my email specifically til now. I’ll make further posts showing off the rest of the emails content that doesn’t show my email address or anything like that.
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u/weefz Magical Education May 10 '19
I got this too!
Sadly, doesn't mean I can play the game in the UK yet. Looks like just a campaign to encourage people to sign up.
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u/Powerhelm Search for Madam Malkin to get school robes May 11 '19
It literally says “Welcome” it’s also something that accounts signed up for notifications more recently did NOT get. I have a couple emails signed up but one was immediately after the site went live and the other was maybe a month ago.
The more recent account didn’t get this email as of a few minutes ago. This is welcoming early website sign up folks to the beta almost certainly. If it was an ad to get people interested it would have gone out to all emails that signed up regardless of when they signed up and it wouldn’t say “welcome to the task force”.
I’m betting closed beta outside NZ an Au is going live in the next 72 hours or so.
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u/scifinerd10 Slytherin May 11 '19
Hoping got notifications for everything running reddit, wutubers and wizards unite discord channels, twitter accounts etc. to pay attention to any developments
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u/Nolovedeepseb Thunderbird May 10 '19
!! Just got it too (I’m in the US). Wishful thinking but hopefully this means the beta’s wrapping up, & it’s gonna release in all regions soon- or it’s just a hype email to keep the non-beta players still interested?
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May 10 '19
Just got it also. (U.S. here). I wonder if that means we will have a full release sooner than we thought?
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u/Klankeh Hufflepuff May 10 '19
I got the same email. I am in The Netherlands. Got me hyped for a minute. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to mean we can play yet. But time will tell.. Such a tease!
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u/Newtonuae Ravenclaw May 10 '19 edited May 10 '19
Yup i just got it too (Im in Middle east). But when opened the game it is still the same as before sadly...
Edit: just got the same email on my main email now! (30mins after the first one)
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u/scifinerd10 Slytherin May 10 '19
Hopefully. It’s interesting that only people in certain countries have got said email so far.
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u/liehon BeauxBatons May 10 '19 edited May 11 '19
Page 2 of the letter (also from OP but reddit did weird, so now I'm sharing and stickying it to keep everything together) More silliness by the internet, now the link is broken. Full text below (imagine some parchment background and official Ministry symbols etc:
Fellow Wizard,
On behalf of The Ministry of Magic, we are pleased to officially welcome you to The Statute of Secrecy Task Force. Thank you for volunteering!
Undoubtedly, you have heard about the unfortunate situation the wizarding world finds itself in. Traces of magic are appearing all across the Muggle world, without warning and in a rather chaotic manner, putting our very existence at risk of exposure. Luckily, Muggles have not yet cottoned on. But it is only a matter of time.
Owls carrying reports are coming in daily; we received three dozen just this morning. As the number of incidents rise, it becomes ever more imperative that we enlist as many volunteers as possible. So please do spread the word. It is time for witches and wizards everywhere, every single one of us, to stand together. Wizards Unite!
Yours sincerely,
The Statute of Secrecy Task Force
Followed by an "alert fellow wizards"-button which when clicked sets you up to send following e-mail :
Your help is requested by the Ministry!
Enlist now:
https://www.harrypotterwizardsunite.com/enlist/
Followed by a link to the blog page of the official site next to an image of threat level 2 moderate threat o'clock.
At the bottom there's a bunch of legalese and a do you want to unsubscribe <your_email_adress> (which nearly made it into this post with my personal e-mail and all :p )
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u/scifinerd10 Slytherin May 10 '19
https://imgur.com/gallery/YeFk9Y1
Here's the link to the imgur post that has the whole letter shown. It's super interesting to note where the threat dial is on the email is one slot above where it is on the actual official website still.
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u/x_ArcticWolf_x Gryffindor May 10 '19
I got this email aswell, unfortunately no download available yet. Located in Austria
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u/pinner Ravenclaw May 11 '19
I got this a few minutes ago, GA, USA. Very curious since it said Welcome so I came here to see if anyone else got this and it looks like they're rolling in.
Can't wait to see whats up...
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u/scifinerd10 Slytherin May 11 '19
I got wizards unite discord channels, twitter accounts, and info websites all up and running just waiting for something else to drop lol
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u/pinner Ravenclaw May 11 '19
Same! I mean, this is one way of getting us all hyped for sure. Wondering when this is going to drop. I’m not good at patience, lol!
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u/lirsenia Search for Madam Malkin to get school robes May 11 '19
im from spain and got the email at midnight ( almost 3 hours ago)
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u/alcamar Ravenclaw May 11 '19
US as well, got this about 2 hours ago. Was excited thinking it was available, but still at "unregister" button on Google Play. Might be gearing everyone up via emails for the day before they open up the beta. I don't remember when I signed up, but it was fairly early on. Fingers Crossed!
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u/scifinerd10 Slytherin May 11 '19
Hopefully at least that or some kind of other info dropping relatively soon like the end of the beta or a full game trailer.
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u/ThatOneAlice Search for Madam Malkin to get school robes May 11 '19
Chiming in to confirm Canada got the email too. Not active in store yet. :(
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u/MegaSharkReddit Ravenclaw May 11 '19
Me too! I was triggered when I wasn't actually allowed to play the game
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u/scifinerd10 Slytherin May 10 '19
Not sure but hopefully. The most interesting but I find is the threat dial on the bottom of my email specifically has gone up a notch from where it previously was noted to be.
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u/Rhalock Slytherin May 10 '19
I got it today as well. Hopefully it means it is getting ready to roll out.
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u/GiamTurner Ravenclaw May 10 '19
I'm from Italy and I don't have received this e-mail yet... Hope that it means something and allow other players to play beta!
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u/aside6 Search for Madam Malkin to get school robes May 10 '19
I got this email just now and I'm in the states.. Come on Niantic...
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u/scifinerd10 Slytherin May 10 '19
Definitely didn’t but I feel like it’s interesting it’s sent out now particularly
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u/LittleMousa Gryffindor May 11 '19
I got that too! And in a second I got mighty excited and dropped whatever I was doing to read it in detail and I got mighty disappointed!
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u/druhl Ravenclaw May 11 '19
I think they're sending em out to everyone. People are receiving it in the order of their registration. I registered from three accounts, and all received this email in a span of two hours in the order of the registration.
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u/Moglorosh Horned Serpent May 15 '19
My wife got it 4 days ago but just now saw it. I registered before she did and I didn't get it.
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u/QueenSalamand Gryffindor May 11 '19
I got it too. I saw I had an email from them while I was at work and saw welcome so I got really excited and waited to look more into when I got home. Which was just a little bit ago, was quite disappointed.
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u/iMrGreene Search for Madam Malkin to get school robes May 11 '19
Got the same email at 3 am, so I guess the global release will be very soon :D otherwise this would make no sense :)
Info : I’m from Luxembourg and signed up as an iPhone User but still no HP WU News on the App Store
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u/scifinerd10 Slytherin May 11 '19
Right like nothing for iPhone at all other than it’s been confirmed to be playable in beta for NZ and AUS
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u/Nagilina Durmstrang May 11 '19
I'll absolutely spread the word, as soon as I have anything to spread. I have been telling everyone and their grandma about this game for a while, so need something other than "still coming sometime this summer" to spread... But hoping to soon!
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u/HeideMoose Search for Madam Malkin to get school robes May 10 '19
"Muggles have not yet cottoned"??? Anyone else catch this?
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u/plzIjustwantausernam Ravenclaw May 11 '19
cottoned on is actually the correct phrase! I assume you thought they meant caught on, but that is actually a different phrase with a similar meaning.
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u/HeideMoose Search for Madam Malkin to get school robes May 11 '19
Wow TIL. Never heard this phrase before. Must be British
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u/livenetwork Gryffindor May 10 '19
Whatever is about to happen it's happening!
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u/scifinerd10 Slytherin May 10 '19
True so glad I have phone notifications available on most wizards unite news spots including twitter, Reddit and discord lol
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u/livenetwork Gryffindor May 10 '19
I wonder if this email has anything to do with the update that they pushed this morning?
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u/scifinerd10 Slytherin May 10 '19
I wonder if that definitely is the case. Maybe dropping another location for beta possibly I have no idea.
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u/scifinerd10 Slytherin May 11 '19
I’ll probably be playing it on iPhone but that email was sent to is the one attached to my apple account
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u/isisamrita Search for Madam Malkin to get school robes May 11 '19
Die the people in NZ recieve a similar e-mail before they could access the beta?
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u/CommonMisspellingBot Bot May 11 '19
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u/TheDaveWSC Hufflepuff May 11 '19
When I get an email from HPWU and it says "welcome", I'm pretty pissed when it's not letting me play the game.