But he wants to pay to beat them so he can be 84th best in the world now NOW NOWWWWWWW.
Those games were difficult because patience, determination and working hard at them gave you a sense of achievement at the end. That's the entire fucking point. I bet Wu was the kid who threw down the controller and yelled how shit the game was when he died, then gave up playing.
Yet more proof that Wu just fundamentally doesn't get gaming.
Really this seems to apply to Wu's entire life approach so far as I can tell.
Repeated failure was a part of getting good in older games by learning what not to do (at the very least), so you can eventually succeed.
Wu has gotten the failure part down pat in life, but forgot to internalize the part where you learn from the failures, try again, and eventually succeed:
-SOCCON/animation studio: didn't work out ultimately to the tune of 200k. Instead of trying again with what resources he had control over (work on improving art, work on improving writing, etc. etc.), instead he just kept rebranding pretty much the same shit, which of course didn't work. At this point, everything except characters were dropped like a hot rock.
-10 Years in College: Failed repeatedly, though not on paper so far as I can tell. After all, dropping out 3 times isn't failing, right?

This one definitely fits the pattern if each time he returned to a college it was for a different major (which I can see on the wiki page is confirmed for 2 of the 3 times he went).
-As a man: so decided to become woman. I'm guessing very little was learned about why he failed so badly as a man, given that he's currently failing as a woman.
-Game: hired a bunch of people to make it for him, it largely flopped, he took it down, did nothing to it for years, and is maybe re-releasing the same game with upgraded textures (well, better looking at any rate), and a quantity of added lighting effects that will cause most GPUs to act like space heaters whenever the game is running at all. I'm not sure "making it worse on balance" qualifies as improvement, but this is about the closest Wu seems to have gotten to learning from failures and trying again.
And that's just the low hanging fruit I can think of off the top of my head.