I think the reason Croberts keeps going is that he's in way too deep for a clean break and doesn't know how to get off the tiger he's created. And, well, these idiots keep giving him money and making excuses for him every time he ****s up.
There's another argument to make regarding the "charitable defense" (Let's officialize it, call it the CD). If the point was to "get off the tiger" with some extra money, wouldn't it have been easier to just try to ship the best game they could pull off with a lot less ambition? Instead, they keep burying their heads into this dream they're selling, making their own lives miserable and stressful, all trying to pull off what Roberts is trying to achieve.
If the point was to do a con, it seems like the worst con ever imaginable. There's only stress, a gargantuan effort to build teams and finantial management to go along with it, and no exit strategy
at all. I mean, they have to pay their wages and actually deliver something in the end. They can't just wave this like "Next Summer it will be Awesome" as if they're not bleeding money every single year by the dozens of millions. At one point, the **** is going to eventually hit the fan. Then what? On what hole will they be hiding in their lives
forever? If Sean Murray became such a four letter name by this point, and the guy actually shipped a ****ing game
on time, imagine a game never being delivered despite people having spent tens of thousands of dollars on it!
This is why I fall back on utter incompetency coupled with unstoppable ambition, without no one being able to tell the man "This is too much man". The alternative is just incredibly worse in terms of stupidity and idiocy! There are so much smarter and less stressful ways to take people's money! (Hey, I remember one, just develop what the game was
supposed to be about in the first place!!!!!! PROFIT!!!!)