Ritual’s SiN Episodes: Emergence got a lukewarm reception from critics and gamers (our review here), not a good start for the first of hopefully many episodes. After the first episode failed, many key members of Ritual left, resulting in a possible cancellation of future episodes. An interview during a Games for Windows podcast went like this,

Jeff: Sin Episode 2…

Shawn: …is likely not happening now. A lot of the people from the dev team have left.

Jeff: At Ritual?

Shawn: Yeah, they’ve gone elsewhere. They now work for other people. Some of the key people. One of the lead programmers. That’s not a good sign.

Jeff: That seems like a real world thing that’s going to be constantly a problem with any episodic game. How can you possibly ensure to fans or gamers that there are going to be future episodes? At any given point the team might dissolve.

Shawn: And the jury’s out on why that’s happening, I’ve personally been trying to contact the head there, Tom Mustaine, and haven’t been able to get too much information. What it seems to imply, obviously, is that Sin Episode 1 didn’t do well.

Via Kotaku