The difference between Target and Microsoft and Precursor games is vast.
Precursor games is a small business with only a handful of employees. Each core employee is important in maintaining the balance of the company and its ability to create a product.
But Target and Microsoft can lose a single person without a problem. Even very high up managers could get axed with little effect to the corporation.
Precursor games is also a company with no history, no backing, and very little support...it also just lost one of its key members to a horrible crime that nobody supports or defends. This is a PR nightmare...and the only thing they can hope is that the company is so small nobody had noticed them yet.
Except, the core audience that would of crowd funded their game has already noticed them...and has already read this story.
No the company is dead and done. They might as well just rename the game, and company, and start all over. But even that probably won't work.