I'm curious. Why, exactly, is Wu so fixated on the idea of getting Revolution 60 onto Steam? Wu's smart enough to know it will end in disaster, so why not just cancel the whole thing and blame GG?
We look at
Socially Unconscious and
Revolution 60 and we see unmitigated shit. Even the most gentle of us for the latter (read: me) can see that the game is congealed failure and shows that Giant Spacekat has no idea how to program. It's terribly optimized, the story is cliche and predictable, the characterization is bad, the gameplay is
unspeakably boring, and the writing is atrocious. It borrows heavily from other works, but celebrates none of them, and it seems almost like a shameless cash-grab, but without the awareness to pull it off.
In truth, it feels like a much more competent - but just as soulless - version of
Myth of the Legendary Warrior. Brianna Wu, has, in essence, reached the so-called
Jay Geis Point. Wu wants fame, she wants power and a successful work to her name - but she has reached the same roadblock a lot of content creator cows meet when effort is required:
They aren't willing to put it in. Nothing stopped Wu from becoming an engineer, or a physicist, or a programmer - she's wealthy, reasonably, intelligent, and seemingly supremely confident if nothing else.
There is no reason whatsoever that Wu couldn't do it, but she hasn't.
She sees such work as "beneath" her. She doesn't know anything about games development, optimization, or.... Anything, really. she'd rather hire someone for that. But because Wu also doesn't know how to manage a project and is a caustic personality, she doesn't provide any benefit there, either.
Revolution 60, like
Socially Unconscious before it, is an ego project, plain and simple, and is there solely so Wu can feel important. She believes that she has every right to success, power and fame because she's Brianna
fucking Wu, and that's how she rolls.
Lest you think this is idle theorycraft: I'll remind you, briefly, of this lovely entry from
Socially Unconscious' last page:
John Flynt said:
People Not To Thank:
S. and S. You know who you are, you assholes. I spent two years attempting to produce an animated version of this series based off the girls in college called “The Cracker.” I funded it with my own money. It was a really good script (I hope I’ll get a chance to present it to you in a future animated series) and these two assholes ruined my film. One S. is a weasel tried to take financial advantage of the fact that I’m a nice guy that does not want to cheat people, and the other S. is just a lazy bitch that wouldn’t do any work, despite the fact we were paying her. Both of you are human filth.
Those two people that Brianna, back as Flynt, was badmouthing were none other than
Sara E. Champagne and
Stephen G. Phillips, the co-founders of
Socially Unconscious Productions. Their offense? Pointing out the obvious, which was that SOCCON was a nonviable train-wreck, and that nobody had any real interest in it.
All evidence is that
Revolution 60 and
Socially Unconscious are nothing more than stepping stone projects. She doesn't care about either beyond them being her brainchild, and all evidence is that she wants to essentially asset flip the damned things the nanosecond she gets the chance (SOCCON literally existed for Flynt to pitch
Socially Unconscious at different groups; one old post of Wu's back in the day indicated a desire to sell
Revolution 60 to Electronic Arts).
