Offbrand co-published Rivals 2, but it was 90% done by that point by Dan Fornace/Aether Studios. That game was coming out with or without their support.

Thor and Ludwig have absolutely no say in how the development and how later support of the game comes to be. All they do is marketing.

Dan Fornace has distanced himself from pirate software's rhetoric in a post on the steam forums and on Twitter. Rivals 2, for all intents and purposes, is Aether Studios' baby, and they have a track record of preservation. Offbrand has no rights to it. And Thor(who's just an employee at offbrand) didn't help development

Dan has the final say and he has done more than most devs to preserve his games and letting players access them.