brickman

as it said in the article, they had already announced it, they made the deal with the original designer, so the team couldn't take everything back.

Here is an article about it: https://brick.is/blog/post/111/lego-reveals-they-came-close-to-cancelling-21337-table-football-set-due-to-problematic-model-scale
Basically, they tried several scales and while playing with the game, but the set just got ruined (broken).