exactly my hunch too, coreplay realized they had much more in their hands so it was stupid to abandon the IP(which is what every indie in his excitement of the deal does that), so they offered a new contract-which bitcomposer obviously rejected since they think they got a gold mine with the IP.
A gold mine I don't know, but I bet it's simply their IP.
bitComposer brought 95% of the funding in the first place ( directly or not ) and certainly won't agree for any kind of "compensation" just to see some third party go away with Chaos Chronicles.
Yep, dead end, unless Coreplay finally accept to cross the finish line with this publisher and overpatch the game after release.
That's what happened to JA:BiA and I read recently that v1.13g was quite good
And they'll know better next time.
I don't think I am lamenting the loss of this game anymore, because I have a sneaking suspicion that there really wasn't ever much of a game to begin with…
Gamers.de seemed quite enthusiast back in February though.