*Mod hat off
Sorry for being lazy but... wont you happen to actually have direct links describing those public record events where he overpromised and went massively over budget?
This isn't a complete summary, and some of it is wikipedia stuff because it's very hard to track down the original sources with Star Citizen contaminating searches so much. It should be enough to establish the pattern of Chris' career though.
Wing Commander:
This
interview with Chris Crawford mentions Wing Commander's inflated budget.
1. Wing Commander cost almost
ten times the average game development budget of the day.
2. It
never made its money back with its own sales.
3. The low risk, high budget "hit" culture in games publishing that Chris Roberts decries... he was instrumental in creating it.
Strike Commander:
From RSI's own website.
"At the time, Strike Commander was far over budget and a year overdue."
From the wiki article.
"The Strike Commander project took more than four years and over a million man hours on background development. Very little of that production time turned out to be actually usable in the final product, as at least one and possibly several complete project "reboots" were required to refine the graphical engine to a playable state."
Freelancer:
Wiki.
"Roberts admitted that his team required large sums of money, which only a huge company could provide, to continue developing Freelancer with its "wildly ambitious" features and unpredictable schedule; the project had overshot its original development projection of three years by 18 months."
