Yes, requesting. They have no legal rights to any of it, having given it all away without contract to Kier. Elfprince, who is under no obligating to do so, is honoring their requests unperturbed, because that's just how confident he is in his project. Could that confidence be misplaced? Perhaps. But the fact is, this game will be finished, and it has the potential, in it's finished form, to rival yours.