Go express your concerns on this thread on EA Forums:
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Other-EA-Games/Alice-Asylum/m-p/12458582

I thought EA only made always-online games with micro-transactions in them nowadays.

Eh, not entirely.

Disney slammed them for SW: Battlefront 2; Anthem failed; and Jedi Fallen Order did prove single-player games w/out MTX's can do well.

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Also, as much as I'd be down for American McGee's Alice 3, I don't see EA doing this. I don't think Alice 1 and Madness Returns really did killer numbers for sales like EA likes anyways - so I don't see them greenlighting Alice 3 anytime soon.

Would like to see EA bring American McGee's Alice and Alice Madness Returns to GOG, if they had any common sense; it's not like EA's doing anything w/ those games and re-releases of these just to be DRM-FREE would be nice.

Yeah, but then they could have done what Square Enix did with Eidos/Crystal Dynamics IPs and sold it off to someone who cared... But EA would rather let it gather dust than do anything with it, or give it away.

Never played these games, but if the creator is that adamant then he might as well do a spiritual successor based on another literary classic. I'm thinking Oz would be right up his alley, it's just as strange as Alice in Wonderland if not moreso.

There's no point begging a corporation like EA, it's better to just start fresh and push forward.

Do you really think a company that is ALL about $$ is gonna give away something they see as an IP that they own?

No way.

Like most companies - they'd rather sit on the IP they own, do nothing, and let it rot...than let someone else try to damage the brand and/or do anything successful with it.

Also, what's to stop American McGee from hooking up w/ another AAA publisher, throwing this same pitch, change the IP name to something else & new, and get this made? Sure, it'll be tough - since I don't think Alice 1 and 2 did numbers and sales - but, maybe he could get lucky w/ someone? [shrug]

Also, I think Square sold off a lot of their Western stuff (to Embracer) so they can try to sell a lot of their own stuff to Sony, which I'll still waiting on here, for better and/or worse...

Exactly.

Ken Levine and Irrational/2K Boston did their System Shock successor without EA, since EA was holding that IP at that time and all. Yeah, they did Bioshock series w/ 2K.

It seems like the legal dispute has been going on for a while. There is also no Alice pt 1 available in Italy.
The game is not sold separatly, neither are collections and the description of keys from keysellers say that they won't activate in Italy.

I have the DVD versions of the games, so I don't realyl have a problem, but I wanted to buy the game on Origin to have a complete collection, no luck for me. That's NOLF for you, just that in that case several companies are involved, Fox, Sierra, Monolith, Warner and Vivendi. And all act the same.

ALICE?! WHO THE FCK IS ALICE???!!! :-)

Multi-billion dollar corporation isn't interested in funding a sequel to a low-selling series made by a developer who hasn't produced anything for a decade. In other news, the sun will be rising again tomorrow.

He had plans for an Oz game but the kickstarter campaign failed.

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EA turning down McGee's Alice: Asylum might have to do with the estimated budget of 50 Million USD to cover development cost. Marketing, licensing and miscellaneous costs to release and publish are not included.

...not to forget ongoing costs. No matter how small the game, EA needs to support it over years to come, which also means to instruct the support lads (and in a company like EA there's LOTs of those)

The point of my comment was to say that selling off an IP due to low profits is not an impossibility. It has happened before. Sure, that doesn't mean it will happen, but it certainly doesn't mean it can't happen either.

It's not that simple as changing the brand. If people want to see more of THAT Alice, then they want to see more of that Alice. A different story with the same gameplay is not going to satisfy that. There are already plenty of other 3rd person action platformers out there and yet people still want Alice.

Dragon Age: Origins plays exactly like KOTOR, but it is still not KOTOR 3.

This is really disappointing.
I wonder if they could develop the game via their EA Originals label. Lost in Random was developed through it and has some similar vibes. But I think Alice: Asylum budget might exceed the maximum allocated for such games.

EA at least could bring the two Alice games here. I don't understand why the first is not sold anywhere for PC, but is available for Xbox on it's store.

One can also buy the PS 3 version of "Alice: Madness Returns".
That contains the first game ("American McGee’s Alice") as an extra.

They used to have the deluxe edition for sale on PC too. That version also contains the original game. But for whatever reason, they only sell the standard one now.