Alpha Protocol Pulled from Steam Due to Expired Music Rights - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 23 June 2019 / 2,867 Views
SEGA has told Eurogamer the action RPG, Alpha Protocol, has been pulled from Steam due to the expiration of music rights. The publisher still owns the rights to the IP.
Alpha Protocol released in 2010 for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows PC.
Here is an overview of the game:
Loyalty carries a price and no one knows this more than agent Michael Thorton. A talented young agent cast out by his government, Thorton is the only one with the information needed to stop an impending international catastrophe. To do so means he must cut himself off from the very people he is sworn to protect. As players determine how to accomplish different objectives, the decisions made and actions taken in each mission will ultimately transform the type of secret agent Michael Thorton will become. Every choice the player makes as Michael Thorton will carry consequences for his future and the fate of the world.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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This is the true face of digital distribution. Meanwhile all of my cartridge games are sitting on my bookshelf. Ready to survive a nuclear apocalypse.
Strange, some of my cartridge based games like secret of mana and story of Thor can no longer save their data anymore. Sure they're nice ornaments but not really playable.
You can probably get a 2032 battery for them that will let them save again. Dunno.
Can you re-download Alpha Protocol if you already own the license, or has it gone bye-bye forever once you lose it?
aye SanAndreasX I opened up Story of Thor to see about replacing it, was pretty much a PC Bios battery in there but it's soldered onto the cartridge so ... yeah I'm good with roms instead of taking a soldering iron to a 30 year old game cartridge... or tons of them.
Ahhh okay. I guess it never occurred to the folks who designed Nintendo cartridges that someone might want to play them 20 years from now. Isn't that how they lost so much source code for older games?
Hope I can still download my copy. Love that game.
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