To be fair, the project probably was on path to fail in 90 days at least once over the course of its life. The same is likely true of many Kickstarted projects, it’s just this one is the most expensive game ever. Roberts has had an abundance of hubris as well, at one time claiming every dollar given him was worth 4 given other ‘normal’ game companies.
…by his own metric that would make this a billion dollar game so far?