Licence Revoked: No Alpha Protocol 2

So - no Alpha Protocol 2 then. This perhaps unsurprising news emerges from a C&VG interview with Sega West's President Mike Hayes, with the relative meaty bits torn free by VG247, the finest jackals of the videogame press savannah. Key quote: "“Let’s speak very commercially; the game hasn’t sold what we’ve expected, therefore we won’t be doing a sequel". Well, that'd explain it. The interesting thing for me though is how important he positions metacritic, stating explicitly that an RPG needs an average score in the high eighties to be a hit. While that's arguably not true, it puts the blame entirely on the game simply not being good enough. Good, yes... but not good enough. I actually bought it myself, but only have got a couple of hours in, bouncing off the surface and having trouble finding the will to return to it. Still - it's an obvious shame that an attempt to break the Fantasy/Sci-fi duopoly on the genre failed, because an accountant's logic will mean that further attempts are even less likely. As in "Look what happened to Alpha Protocol". My 70s punk RPG will never be. Despairing emoticon.