If I had to guess, Kurvitz and Co. were legit hard to work with, they are a bunch of moody communists artists after all, and the corporate guys didn't like how... bohemian they were being about game dev and wanted to run the shop more like UbiSoft or something. They were banking on the remaining writers being able to carry the project but it sounds like they weren't treating them too well either and also the game needs that depressed Estonian punk rock flavor to be anywhere near as good as the orginial so now they're just trying to sell the copper piping in the walls to pay off their debt and fuck off.