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The Hardsuit Labs game version has been completed - playable from start to finish with all planned content and mechanics ready, with only polishing remaining.
Means nothing................. polishing is the most important part of the game dev process and can take far more time and effort than what many realize. FFXVI and Baldur's Gate 3 was in the polishing stage for 1 year. It would still be a significant amount of dev time and money that needs to be poured into the game before it is in a releasable state, and if Paradox decided the Hardsuit game wasn't good enough to be worth pouring more money into why would you disagree with them?
It's not like Paradox is exactly rich or cares too much about IP (considering the amount of total rubbish they've released under it over the years).
Paradox is in a difficult position because the strategy genre has shrank a lot in recent times. They need to branch out of strategy games in order to survive, and Bloodlines 2 is a very important part of that.