It's just very sad that Steven don't want to be in the movie. I watched Expendables 2 last Friday and I thought it was better than the first one. Ok, it was not perfect (story was again pretty boring and I didn't like the locations), but overall it was solid entertainment.
I mean, actually I would be even satisfied with a little cameo scene in 1 or 2 scenes. That could be filmed in 2-3 days or so.
The best thing of course would be Steven as bad guy with (for example) Danny Trejo as his sidekick (like Van Damme and Scott Adkins in the second movie). But it seems that this will never come true.
I wish we could write Steven a message or so to ask him to rethink his deciscion. I'm just feeling very bad about all this and I really don't know if I still want to be a fan of him in the future.