![]() I hope this does not stop SEGA from doing another Western RPG in the near future. Whilst we had a good game, I don’t think we had a game that had enough to get us to that upper echelon and I think that was the issue.” – Mike Hayes, President of SEGA West Whilst we had a good game, I don’t think we had a game that had enough to get us to that upper echelon and I think that was the issue. The concept was brilliant, though,You know this whole thing with Metacritic where you have to be in the high 70s to mid-80s minimum – well, with RPGs you have got to be in the late 80s. “Let’s speak very commercially the game hasn’t sold what we’ve expected, therefore we won’t be doing a sequel. SEGA’s Mike Hayes has decided that we won’t get a sequel due to the low sales of the first game. As much as I like seeing these franchises continue, its bittersweet that it isn’t under SEGA’s publishing arm/funding.ģ Comments Binary Domain, Streets of Rage 2 and Condemned free on SteamĮven though Alpha Protocol wasn’t the best Western RPG, I thought it could have really improved for the sequel and deliver an amazing experience. I also don’t know how I feel about SEGA being so liberal with other publishers making games for their in-house IPs they own including Bayonetta 3, Streets of Rage 4, Panzer Dragoon remakes, Shenmue III, and so on. Outside of rumors that Microsoft/Obsidian might have made a deal with SEGA for the IP rights, there is also a pattern that when ‘remakes’ of games come out, the publisher pulls the old version of the games from sale ( Dark Souls Remake, Darksiders Warmastered). I thought the original Alpha Protocol was a buggy game, but it had potential to be a big franchise if they followed up the sequels with a more solid made product. We don’t know much about what the IP rights for Alpha Protocol where, maybe SEGA had a contract that if they didn’t use the IP after a certain amount of years it reverts back to the developer? Did Microsoft (who now owns Obsidian Software) make a deal with SEGA for the IP? According to PC Gamer, they say that SEGA’s statement about the license expiring aren’t accurate and that SEGA still owns the IP. Not the type of move I was hoping for and according to SEGA it was due to the ‘rights expiring’. They removed it from digital sales on Steam. It's unlikely we'll ever get a sequel, but even now I'm going to keep dreaming.After a decade of SEGA doing nothing with the Alpha Protocol IP, it finally did something. Alpha Protocol isn’t a classic, but it’s earned a place as a cult favourite-just like everything Obsidian does." There’s potential in the idea, be it of letting players experience a more open, branching form of spy fiction, or just not letting RPGs languish in the realms of fantasy or post-apocalypse. ![]() More importantly, there are lessons here that should be learned from and built upon. "It throws a lot of design spaghetti at the wall, and some of it sticks. Phil revisited Alpha Protocol in 2017 and found it hard to stay mad at its missteps, even after taking off the rose-tinted goggles. If you never picked up this gem, however, you'll need to find other ways. If you own Alpha Protocol, you'll still be able to play it, and you'll keep being able to download it whenever you want. "Following the expiry of Sega’s publishing rights for Alpha Protocol, the title has been removed from Steam and is no longer on sale," a Sega spokesperson told me.
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