Anyone else remember when Chris said: "If we stopped getting money tomorrow, we still have enough to finish the game"? Turned out to be blatantly false. Without the private investment, the project was over right about now according to the financials.
I frankly don't know how anyone on the SC-love side can be okay with that. The project is now on life support by a private investor and everyone pretends that CIG isn't at the end of their own barrel of money.
As far as I see it, Chris has already failed since he didn't deliver anything by himself. And now it's the usual "I need 2 more years" rant he gave on Freelancer. That caused him to get kicked off the project last time.