Alpha Protocol is a game that a lot of gamers would love to re-experience via a remake or remaster, and yesterday those hopes got to 11 as Valve was asked by SEGA to remove the game from Steam. However, it appears that there isn’t currently any planned remaster for it.
As SEGA told Techraptor, the removal of Alpha Protocol from Steam was due to the expiration of their publishing rights and nothing more.
“Following the expiry of SEGA’s publishing rights for Alpha Protocol, the title has been removed from Steam and is no longer on sale.”
SEGA has also confirmed that the publishing rights for this game have returned to its development team, Obsidian Entertainment.
Obsidian Entertainment is currently working hard on The Outer Worlds and we don’t expect to see a proper remaster of Alpha Protocol anytime soon. Our guess is that the team may re-release the game on Steam at a later date (or even bring it to the Epic Games Store) however you should not expect any major differences once – and if – the game re-releases… unless of course it takes months for Obsidian to re-release a more polished version of it.
UPDATE:
Eurogamer now claims that SEGA still owns the Alpha Protocol IP.
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That was ridiculously stupid move to sell old games…and Sega is not that stupid
Sega is not stupid, KIM is.
Don’t mind Kim, he’s trying to make the most out of his leftover brain cell
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That was very interesting game story wise. Gameplay was broken and clunky.
Sometimes those Remasters are useless on PC (Borderlands, Sleeping Dogs…) and sometimes not (Bioshock 1 & 2, RE4…). A remaster of Alpha Protocol would be greatly useful, the og port is garbage, you can’t use AA and disable Motion Blur without going deep in the ini files, can’t tweak fov and a has lot of console port downsides, a remaster can bring quality of life improvements
bioshock remamstered is worst than the original
You mean the one with screwed FOV, GFWL + SecuROM, 30 fps animations, that crashed every 10mn ??
yea, its that bad.
HAHA to switch FoV on Bioshock 2007 release, you must use Flawless Widescreen with a specific .exe (needed because SecuROM games dont launch anymore on newer OS’s too), you must hex edit that .exe to get 60 fps animations and physics, and still after all that, you get frequent crashes + GFWL, no it’s not just ini tweaks, i had that game, and it was “working” but i bought Remastered after 2 patchs and it was far better (x64, more stable, better AA/AO, no GFLW, native FoV option, 60 fps animations, DLC content available for the 1st time…) the only issues i had with the remaster was more compressed audio file, but there’s a workaround (I don’t care about some missing reflections here and there, the remaster has improvements over the original too, and it’s a more polished product overall)
I know what PCGamingwiki is you know, i just didn’t check vanilla Bioshock page for a long time, things happened… But yes there was a time when Flawless widescreen was needed for FoV, along with Razor1911 .exe (still needed for retail versions just to launch the game on Win10)and for the 30 fps animations, there’s now an automated tool, back in the time you must hex edit, i had the vanilla one, with all these fixes applied, still crashes like an alcoholic after party, and on multiple configurations, even the PCGW page mentions it
PS : Why just blame people who are doing remasters while you must blame the OG devs in this case, who ruined that great game by porting it like a** from the Xbox 360 version, not to mention back in the day it came it was really poorly optimized with hell a lot of issues, go ask any person who bought it in 2007 or even pirated it
EGS exclusive for sure!
Are you sure that MS still like Valve after Valve have tried to make SteamOS happen?
Judging by their publicized good relationship , yes. SteamOS is irrelevant. It also was never a threat in any possible way to MS.
Gabe is Microsoft alumni. He’s definitely on good terms with them.
Lmao at retroactive exclusive.
Remaster time. First update those horrendous animations.
Denuvo’s on the phone. They want you to stop promoting their DRM KIM. You’re making them look even worse by your associating yourself with them : )
Its been on Steam long enough that anyone should own the game by now, Even then with the delist the game will remain in your library.
I bought it like 10 years ago still haven’t played it.
lol You nailed it. We’re all just passengers, on the tidal wave of stupid these days.
SEGA gave this for free last february.
The game will be for sale on Steam again within a year, I wouldn’t worry about it if you somehow don’t have it already.
bad bad game ! i have installed graphics and animations is like a plastation 2 game ! horrible
but are we sure it’s a game released in 2010? in the same year the metro 2033 was released