The rooster teeth ips are going to another company they talked about it a couple weeks ago so rwby might not get in or pfg might still have the rights to put her in in or something
I saw someone else say that, but there's no official confirmation that any IPs have been sold yet, which means RWBY can easily be put in and due to how copyright works, Ruby Rose is so down the development pipeline that even if someone bought them now, the buyer would HAVE to agree with WB's past decisions of their IP usage. So Ruby is still probably gonna get in regardless unless WB themselves decide to take her out If anything I'd bet she was supposed to be a launch character when they released it a second time but they delayed her so they didn't release the character in the same month they shut down the studio, since I remember seeing her leaked since the Beta along with PPG and Samurai Jack, 2 characters who were ALSO in the Rick audio leak.
i think the IP of the characters are so large that PFG would have to royally screw this up for it not to be a commercial success no matter how much they lock the game behind a paywall - as annoying as it is having to either pay or grind through one of the most boring campaigns ever to unlock characters, i feel like game companies wouldnt keep using this model if it didnt work so i guess we have no one to blame but ourselves
