It's being published by Paradox, not made by them. The developers are Harebrained Schemes who wrote the Shadowrun games.
Aside from that. Although I've played Battletech since it was a board game, I can't say I'm on the edge of my seat over this. I watched a few dev streams and it seems like they won't be including everything they wanted to, so i'll either get it when it's reduced prior to the 3050 version or i'll just go straight for 3050.