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Often times they're the same thing. The money comes from the owner of the IP, who contracted out the project; owner of the IP decides they don't want to do it anymore; no more money coming in to fund the people working on it.
I guess it depends on how big the company is, if they have a long-standing team and work on multiple projects or if they're mainly contractors brought in for one big project. I'd hope a company like Supermassive have enough other projects going on that nobody's losing their job over this.
I would hope, but it is becoming less and less common.