ln18
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- May 21, 2015
I'm happy to be proven wrong (because I won't blame anyone for putting out a game, even if it's shit) but I really, really doubt that Wu will ever release Rev60 on Steam. The best thing might be that it gets put back on the Apple Store. Wu has nothing to gain and a great deal to lose from its release. That's assuming she's even capable of finishing the game at all, which, as others have said, is likely not the case.
While Rev60's still in development, Wu can claim a whole lot of shit. She can claim to be at the forefront of the gaming industry. She can claim to still need to hire women. She can make a whole lot of obnoxious and smug statements about game development, because she's currently in it. Once Rev60 can be officially declared finished, she won't have that any more, and people will recognize her as just another annoying amateur designer with a shitty product. If Rev60 is finished, Wu will have to move onto another game or risk becoming (more) irrelevant, which means either abandoning her Sonichu (unthinkable) or putting out a sequel, which everyone in the industry will just roll their eyes at.
Moreover, putting it out there on Steam will shatter her hugbox. It's not just going to be weens that spam her game with negative reviews, there'll be actual reviewers intrigued by the controversy trying to have a look. The success of Undertale has renewed interest in crowdfunded games. And they're going to find a dogshit game riddled with optimization errors and borderline plagiarism, and they'll tell their audience about it, an audience far larger than Wu's Twitter. She won't be able to dismiss real reviewers as Gamergate trolls. She'll reinvoke the wrath of SJWs for her skinny white woman fetish, and she'll certainly never be able to raise her zillion dollars for VR tech like she dreams of.
What happens if she doesn't put out the game? Nothing. The only real consequences might be from renegading on her crowdfunding promises, but I doubt it; that funding had nothing to do with the game and everything to do with GamerGate. Her supporters don't care if she produces a game or not.
I think if BriWu produced a game any significant media coverage would be positive, her game viewed as the equivalent of a 3 year old's fingerpainting, "It exists, yaaaaay!"