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[Pixela]

Just because they had the rights for 5 years, didn't mean they put 5 years work into it. From what I saw there wasn't much work went into it at all, and if they canceled it that means they had a lot of work left to do (or they would of just released it anyway).

We don't even know what the deal was, for all we know they bought the rights for 5 years in 2015 and they were about to be forced to pay more.

[Alhanelem]

Just because they had the rights for 5 years, didn't mean they put 5 years work into it. From what I saw there wasn't much work went into it at all, and if they canceled it that means they had a lot of work left to do (or they would of just released it anyway).

We don't even know what the deal was, for all we know they bought the rights for 5 years in 2015 and they were about to be forced to pay more.

You don't sit on your ass for years before actually fcancelling a project. COmpanies don't like wasting money. Even a project that's sitting idle is wasting money.

It is more common than you think for games to make it much of the way through the development cycle before being cancelled. Hell its not even that rare for a game to be more or less completed and just not get released. Star Fox 2 was 100% complete but it was cancelled because they didn't think it would sell (or something) in the face of the N64. Sega cancelled a fully completed beat-em-up title because they thought it could compete with their in house Streets of Rage franchise back on the Genesis/Megadrive.