Not a complete scam, just a buggy mess caused by mismanagement and constant forced rewrites.

Roberts micromanages every aspect of the game, but fucks off for months at a time before rejecting whatever work has been submitted to him.

So his art teams and devs all have to twiddle their thumbs waiting on him.

Roberts also has a habit of firing design teams and hiring on a new team to redo all the work.

He also has a feature creep problem. Keeps adding new shit to the requirements.

The man has never released a game on time, and the only reason he's released anything, was a publisher stepping in and taking over.

But yes, the ship sales are pure scam.