People Make Games investigation TL;DW: It's complicated, but I don't think it's right to say the workers got stiffed.
??? Have you been living under a rock or something? That aged like milk over a year ago. Its just stinky cheese now.
Edit: The good news is there are like 4 recently announced projects from multiple former Elysium devs that promise to carry on the spirit of the game.
How did you not realize this when the documentary shits on Kurvis for trying to do this in the first place?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hhmdcLqzpQ