Alpha Protocol has been removed from Steam

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Alpha Protocol, one of the best spy games on PC (not to mention the only spy RPG out there), has been removed from Steam. The page is still live, but it's no longer available for purchase. "At the request of the publisher, Alpha Protocol is no longer available for sale on Steam," a notice reads.

"Due to the expiry of music rights in Alpha Protocol, the title has been removed from Steam and is no longer on sale," a Sega spokesperson said in a statement.

Which is a shame considering how unique Alpha Protocol is. Sega is a company known for making poor decisions when it comes to stuff like this so it is unlikely that Alpha Protocol will ever come back.

 

Alpha Protocol was and still is an underappricated gem. Obsidian who developped this game tried many different things with it, some of which was hit and miss and at launch it was riddled with bugs like all Obsidian games. But the story this game had was incredible all the same.

 

Phil revisited Alpha Protocol in 2017 and found it hard to stay mad at its missteps, even after taking off the rose-tinted goggles. 

"It throws a lot of design spaghetti at the wall, and some of it sticks. More importantly, there are lessons here that should be learned from and built upon. 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. Alpha Protocol isn’t a classic, but it’s earned a place as a cult favourite—just like everything Obsidian does."

It's unlikely we'll ever get a sequel, but even now I'm going to keep dreaming.

 

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