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Comic Books
Bucky: How can the Germans be so far ahead of us, cap? Even if Oppenheimer gets a result in Los Alamos next month, we're never gonna be able to match this. Where did they lay their hands on the Flash Gordon tech?
Captain America: You wouldn't believe me if I told you, chum. Let's just say that there are more sides fighting in this war than anyone will ever know.
Captain America: You wouldn't believe me if I told you, chum. Let's just say that there are more sides fighting in this war than anyone will ever know.
Peter Parker: I'm Spider-Man.
Mary Jane: What? What did you just say?
Peter Parker: Sshh...
Mary Jane: What?
Peter Parker: Shhh... I'm Spider-Man.
Mary Jane: You're Spider-Man?
Peter Parker: Yes
Mary Jane: The superhero?
Peter Parker: Yes.
Mary Jane: HA HA AH! AHHH AHH! Oh, man... HAHAHAAH!
Mary Jane: What? What did you just say?
Peter Parker: Sshh...
Mary Jane: What?
Peter Parker: Shhh... I'm Spider-Man.
Mary Jane: You're Spider-Man?
Peter Parker: Yes
Mary Jane: The superhero?
Peter Parker: Yes.
Mary Jane: HA HA AH! AHHH AHH! Oh, man... HAHAHAAH!
Fan Works
"Jordan, half the board already wants to put me into a fucking straitjacket. How the hell do you explain this without the other half agreeing?
Tried to tell [Alan], but his exact words were, 'Flynn, you're the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, with a wife and a child. Quit smoking that shit.' The only way he'll believe this is if I knock him out and drag him in here."
Tried to tell [Alan], but his exact words were, 'Flynn, you're the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, with a wife and a child. Quit smoking that shit.' The only way he'll believe this is if I knock him out and drag him in here."
Ironwood: What are your goals here, creature? What is it you hope to achieve?
"Hentacle": Would you believe me if I said world peace?
Ironwood: No.
"Hentacle": No one ever does. What's the point of even asking if you're not going to believe anything I say?
"Hentacle": Would you believe me if I said world peace?
Ironwood: No.
"Hentacle": No one ever does. What's the point of even asking if you're not going to believe anything I say?
— White Sheep (RWBY), chapter 41
Tobias: So… Were you guys planning on telling me? Like, ever?
Loren: We hadn’t decided, honestly. If… if it came up, we never planned on lying to you.
Tobias: Yeah, well, in that case your planning sucks. You told me that you two met at a party in college, not… Not on a friggin’ spaceship just south of Jupiter!
Elfangor: We wanted to do right by you, and we thought that meant not telling you wild stories. We could have insisted all day long that I’m an alien and we’re refugees from an intergalactic war and we only got here because we misused a time machine, but what proof did we have? [Shrugs] I can no longer morph, we have no alien technology at hand, and mainstream human culture firmly insists that this planet is the sole supporter of life in the universe.
Loren: We just wanted you to have a normal life. That’s all.
Tobias: Oh, so you were lying to me for my own good. That’s just — Can I… Can I go to my room? I need some time to process this.
Loren: We hadn’t decided, honestly. If… if it came up, we never planned on lying to you.
Tobias: Yeah, well, in that case your planning sucks. You told me that you two met at a party in college, not… Not on a friggin’ spaceship just south of Jupiter!
Elfangor: We wanted to do right by you, and we thought that meant not telling you wild stories. We could have insisted all day long that I’m an alien and we’re refugees from an intergalactic war and we only got here because we misused a time machine, but what proof did we have? [Shrugs] I can no longer morph, we have no alien technology at hand, and mainstream human culture firmly insists that this planet is the sole supporter of life in the universe.
Loren: We just wanted you to have a normal life. That’s all.
Tobias: Oh, so you were lying to me for my own good. That’s just — Can I… Can I go to my room? I need some time to process this.
— "What if Elfangor and Loren raised Tobias?", All Assorted Animorphs AUs
“Mom, Dad. You know how my grades have taken a nosedive this last quarter? It’s not my fault, because I was mind-controlled by aliens. Aliens that have since mysteriously disappeared. No, I’m not lying to get out of being grounded, and I can’t imagine why you would ever think that. See? I don’t even believe myself.”
— Tom, "What if all the Yeerks suddenly died? (Part 2)", All Assorted Animorphs AUs
Tom: We aren’t - I’m not a Controller. Honest.
Marco: Mertil, you gotta listen to me, man, I know it sounds crazy but I know you, I know you - !
Mertil: <Silence. I will return in three days’ time. I have provided you with food suitable for humans, and water. I am aware of all human needs and have taken them into account; any attempt to negotiate with me will be taken as an attempt to effect your escape.>
Marco: Mertil, you gotta listen to me, man, I know it sounds crazy but I know you, I know you - !
Mertil: <Silence. I will return in three days’ time. I have provided you with food suitable for humans, and water. I am aware of all human needs and have taken them into account; any attempt to negotiate with me will be taken as an attempt to effect your escape.>
"Now," he said, more calmly, "Exit your host immediately."
Oh, shit. "I'm not—"
"There's no need to speak, just exit the human host. Now!"
"I swear to god I don't have a yeerk in my head," I said tiredly, knowing even as I did that it would do no good.
Oh, shit. "I'm not—"
"There's no need to speak, just exit the human host. Now!"
"I swear to god I don't have a yeerk in my head," I said tiredly, knowing even as I did that it would do no good.
— Eleutherophobia: The Day the Earth Stood Still
May: And then, when I go to deliver [the Meteorite Shard] to the guys who need it, you show up and start making some very insulting remarks about the people who are trying to save the world.
Zinnia: Yeah, at cost to another.
May: What other? You've never provided us any proof about that. You tell us there's another world out there, that we're gonna endanger some other world if we warp that meteor away instead of letting it fall on us. But you don't have anything to back you up, you don't show us anything to prove that you're not just rambling. And another world that's just like this one? With another Hoenn, but one where no one's ever heard of Mega Evolution and Primal Reversion isn't a thing? Where the war in Kalos never even happened? What next, are you gonna tell me Red and Blue were marking paper maps instead of filling out Pokédexes? Or Suicune hangs out in the Bell Tower instead of running around two regions? Or maybe that some Kantonian dumbass runs all around the world and solves everything from Team Rocket to the frickin' Darkest Day, and everyone else is just Contest stars and Trainer PR models?
Zinnia: Yeah, at cost to another.
May: What other? You've never provided us any proof about that. You tell us there's another world out there, that we're gonna endanger some other world if we warp that meteor away instead of letting it fall on us. But you don't have anything to back you up, you don't show us anything to prove that you're not just rambling. And another world that's just like this one? With another Hoenn, but one where no one's ever heard of Mega Evolution and Primal Reversion isn't a thing? Where the war in Kalos never even happened? What next, are you gonna tell me Red and Blue were marking paper maps instead of filling out Pokédexes? Or Suicune hangs out in the Bell Tower instead of running around two regions? Or maybe that some Kantonian dumbass runs all around the world and solves everything from Team Rocket to the frickin' Darkest Day, and everyone else is just Contest stars and Trainer PR models?
Films — Animated
Earl Stutz: I'm telling the truth, dang it! It came from outer space. I saw it! And it was headed toward land. I called the government in Washington. Maybe it was a sputnik, or... or an invader from Mars. That's what it is, an invader from Mars! It was a spaceship of some kind. An unidentified flying object...
Man: Unidentified? Knowing you, Earl, I'd say it was either whiskey or beer.
Man: Unidentified? Knowing you, Earl, I'd say it was either whiskey or beer.
Kent Mansley: Sir, this thing is a menace. It destroyed a power station, it... it caused a train wreck!
General Rogard: What did, Mansley? Tell me again, and this time, listen to yourself.
Mansley: A giant... metal monster.
Rogard: (laughs uncontrollably)
General Rogard: What did, Mansley? Tell me again, and this time, listen to yourself.
Mansley: A giant... metal monster.
Rogard: (laughs uncontrollably)
"I foretold you so!"
— The Echidna, Legend Of The Guardians The Owls Of Ga Hoole
"They're making this too easy! (cackles) Y'know, in all the bodies I've been in, no one has ever gotten wise to me. And now, for the first time, an immunity cell has figured out everything...and they don't believe him. Can you taste the irony in that?"
— Thrax, Osmosis Jones
Films — Live Action
"Cassandra in Greek legend, you recall, was condemned to know the future but to be disbelieved when she foretold it. Hence the agony of foreknowledge combined with the impotence to do anything about it."
— Dr. Kathryn Railly, 12 Monkeys
"And another thing, Mr. Chick Young: the next time that I tell you that I saw something when I saw it, YOU BELIEVE ME that I saw it!"
—Wilbur Grey, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
"What do you think I am? I am not some pink-cheeked seminarian who doesn't know the difference between the supernatural and a bad clam! I am a trained psychotherapist! I went into that house, and what I saw there was real, what I felt there was real, and what I heard there was real! Now, gentleman, I have a family in my parish that's at great risk! They're facing real danger!"
—Father Delaney, The Amityville Horror (1979)
"How do you get people to protect themselves from something they don't believe in?"
— Steve Andrews, The Blob (1958)
Steve Andrews: Listen, now listen to me, everybody, this town is in danger! Now, several people have been killed already! Now we - we had to make this noise so you would listen to us, so we could warn you!
Man: If we're in trouble, where're the police?
Man: If we're in trouble, where're the police?
"No one's going to believe me, cause I'm a kid, and they never listen to the kid!"
— Mike, Eight Legged Freaks
George: Now, calm down. What crash are you talking about?
(A massive explosion comes from the racetrack)
Nick: THAT'S WHAT FUCKING CRASH I'M TALKING ABOUT!
(A massive explosion comes from the racetrack)
Nick: THAT'S WHAT FUCKING CRASH I'M TALKING ABOUT!
Charley Brewster: Look, I'm telling you, Jerry Dandridge is a vampire!
Detective Lennox: Sure, and I'm Dirty Harry. Now let me tell you something kid. If I ever catch your ass down at the station house again, I'm throwing it in jail FOREVER!
Detective Lennox: Sure, and I'm Dirty Harry. Now let me tell you something kid. If I ever catch your ass down at the station house again, I'm throwing it in jail FOREVER!
Norrington: You actually were telling the truth.
Jack: I do that quite a lot, yet people are always surprised.
"I saw a murder, and I'm going to prove it!"
— Grace Collier, Sisters (1973)
"We spent a lot of time in Nicaragua and places like that. For a while there, she was with this crazy ex-Green Beret guy, running guns. Then there were some other guys. She'd shack up with anybody she could learn from so she could teach me how to be this 'great military leader.' Then she gets busted. And it's like, 'Sorry kid, your mom's a psycho. Didn't you know?' It's like everything I'd been brought up to believe was all made of bullshit. I hated her for that! But everything she said was true. She knew... and nobody believed her. Not even me."
— John Connor on Sarah Connor, Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Sherman Putterman: This is Sherman, and I have this problem and nobody believes me.
Medusa: Well... maybe I won't believe you either. Let's hear it.
Sherman: Grampa and me, we were sleeping. And then we woke up, and there was this monster. And Grampa thought it was a burglar. And then we saw the TV guy. And then Grampa disappeared and the monster went inside the TV. Then Mom came home and locked me in the bomb shelter!
Medusa: So, tell me, Sherman. Under psychiatric care?
Medusa: Well... maybe I won't believe you either. Let's hear it.
Sherman: Grampa and me, we were sleeping. And then we woke up, and there was this monster. And Grampa thought it was a burglar. And then we saw the TV guy. And then Grampa disappeared and the monster went inside the TV. Then Mom came home and locked me in the bomb shelter!
Medusa: So, tell me, Sherman. Under psychiatric care?
"They never believed me, how - How he was everywhere. How he could be at two places at once. That wall back there - my friend smashed her head open on it."
— Wendy, VHS
Literature
"Why should they listen to me? Half of them think I'm mad. You're to blame, Hazel, because you know I'm not and still you won't listen."
— Fiver, Watership Down
Live Action TV
Holt: Do you want to know how I actually hurt my wrist?
Jake: Yes.
Holt: I was hula-hooping. Kevin and I attend a class for fitness and for fun.
Jake: [overjoyed] Oh my God!
Holt: I've mastered all the moves. [produces his phone and shows pictures of himself hula-hooping to Jake] The Pizza Toss... the Tornado... the Scorpion, the Oopsie-Doodle...
Jake: [grinning from ear-to-ear] Why are you telling me this?
Holt: Because no one... will ever believe you.
[Holt clicks "delete photos."]
Jake: No... NO!
[Holt deletes them and smirks evilly at a genuinely horrified Jake.]
Jake: You sick son of a bitch!
Jake: Yes.
Holt: I was hula-hooping. Kevin and I attend a class for fitness and for fun.
Jake: [overjoyed] Oh my God!
Holt: I've mastered all the moves. [produces his phone and shows pictures of himself hula-hooping to Jake] The Pizza Toss... the Tornado... the Scorpion, the Oopsie-Doodle...
Jake: [grinning from ear-to-ear] Why are you telling me this?
Holt: Because no one... will ever believe you.
[Holt clicks "delete photos."]
Jake: No... NO!
[Holt deletes them and smirks evilly at a genuinely horrified Jake.]
Jake: You sick son of a bitch!
West: Your mother should have taught you to tell the truth!
Dorothy: I'm not lying! I don't know her!
West: [Beat] Your own mother? Even dogs know the bitch from whence they came.
Dorothy: I'm not lying! I don't know her!
West: [Beat] Your own mother? Even dogs know the bitch from whence they came.
Chuck: Don't worry about what Olive knows. Even if I told her the truth she wouldn't believe me.
Ned: You don't know that.
Chuck: Yes I do, because I told her and she wouldn't believe me.
Ned: You don't know that.
Chuck: Yes I do, because I told her and she wouldn't believe me.
"Why are you booing me? I'm right!"
— Hannibal Buress, The Eric Andre Show
"I think you'll find that the Prime Minister is actually an alien in disguise, and... [Beat] That's never going to work, is it?"
— The Doctor, Doctor Who
"Three years. For three years, I warned you this day was coming, but you would not listen. Pride, you said; presumption. And now the Shadows are on the move. The Centauri and the younger worlds are at war; the Narns have fallen; even the humans are fighting one another! The pride was yours; the presumption was yours."
— Delenn, to the Grey Council, Babylon 5, "Severed Dreams"
Johnathan: You don't believe us, do you?
Murray: I believe you, but that's not the problem. You don't need me to believe you. You need them to believe you.
Johnathan: "Them"?
Murray: Them. With a capital T. Your priest, your postman, your teacher, the world at large. They won't believe any of this.
Nancy: That's why we made the tape.
Murray: Oh, that's easy to bury. Easy.
Nancy: He admits it! You heard it! He admits culpability!
Murray: You're being naive, Nancy! Those people... They're not wired like me and you, okay? They don't spend their lives trying to get a look at what's behind the curtain. They like the curtain. It provides them stability, comfort, definition. This... this would open the curtain, and open the curtain behind that curtain, okay? So the minute someone with an ounce of authority calls bullshit, everyone will nod their heads and say, "See? Ha! I knew it! It was bullshit." That is, if you even get their attention at all.
Murray: I believe you, but that's not the problem. You don't need me to believe you. You need them to believe you.
Johnathan: "Them"?
Murray: Them. With a capital T. Your priest, your postman, your teacher, the world at large. They won't believe any of this.
Nancy: That's why we made the tape.
Murray: Oh, that's easy to bury. Easy.
Nancy: He admits it! You heard it! He admits culpability!
Murray: You're being naive, Nancy! Those people... They're not wired like me and you, okay? They don't spend their lives trying to get a look at what's behind the curtain. They like the curtain. It provides them stability, comfort, definition. This... this would open the curtain, and open the curtain behind that curtain, okay? So the minute someone with an ounce of authority calls bullshit, everyone will nod their heads and say, "See? Ha! I knew it! It was bullshit." That is, if you even get their attention at all.
— Stranger Things, "Dig Dug"
Music
You just can't believe me
When I show you what you cannot see
When I show you what you cannot see
— 'New Order, "Confusion"
Без умолку безумная девица
Кричала: "Ясно вижу Трою павшей в прах!"
Но ясновидцев - впрочем, как и очевидцев -
Во все века сжигали люди на кострах.
Nonstop the mad maiden screamed:
"I clearly see Troy's fallen ashes!"
But seers - just like witnesses -
Were always burned at the stake.
Кричала: "Ясно вижу Трою павшей в прах!"
Но ясновидцев - впрочем, как и очевидцев -
Во все века сжигали люди на кострах.
Nonstop the mad maiden screamed:
"I clearly see Troy's fallen ashes!"
But seers - just like witnesses -
Were always burned at the stake.
— Vladimir Vysotskiy, "Song of the Seer Cassandra"
I wish I'd paid attention to that crazy drunken man
He tried to warn me all about old Marsh's Deep One clan
He tried to warn me all about old Marsh's Deep One clan
Newspaper Comics
Calvin's Mom: We're home! Is everything OK?
Rosalyn: Fine. Calvin did his homework, then we played a game, and Calvin went to bed.
Calvin's Dad: It's awfully late for jokes, Rosalyn.
Rosalyn: Fine. Calvin did his homework, then we played a game, and Calvin went to bed.
Calvin's Dad: It's awfully late for jokes, Rosalyn.
Video Games
I tried... I tried to tell them... But they wouldn't listen to me... Damn them! Damn their eyes! They didn't believe me. Strange creatures... The world in peril from unseen foes... The death... The darkness! Instead, they jeered and threw me into this forsaken place, a place of empty souls and fevered thoughts, reeking of foetor and decay, thinking me mad with delirium! The fools cast away their hopes of salvation, by locking me in this damned asylum!
MAY THE RATS EAT YOUR EYES! I AM NOW LOST TO YOUR CAUSE! THE DARKNESS COMES! IT WILL DAMN US ALL!''
— Maximilian Roivas, Eternal Darkness
Sam: You know, we run into Whizzer all the time.
Girl Stinky: I'm sure you do. *Under her breath* Mangy lying dog.
Girl Stinky: I'm sure you do. *Under her breath* Mangy lying dog.
Visual Novels
Okabe: U-um, to be perfectly honest, I used a D-mail and only just arrived in this worldline.
Kurisu: Okabe, is that seriously the best lie you could come up with?
Okabe: I'm not lying! I used a D-mail a little while ago, and when I came to, I was standing here holding a bass!note
Daru: Okarin. Nobody's gonna believe an excuse like that, especially not right now.
Okabe: (Everyone in the room is looking at me with pity. Argh! They think I'm making excuses!)
Kurisu: Okabe, is that seriously the best lie you could come up with?
Okabe: I'm not lying! I used a D-mail a little while ago, and when I came to, I was standing here holding a bass!note
Daru: Okarin. Nobody's gonna believe an excuse like that, especially not right now.
Okabe: (Everyone in the room is looking at me with pity. Argh! They think I'm making excuses!)
—Steins;Gate: My Darling's Embrace
Webcomics
"I told them the truth. Now they consider me mad."
— Annie-Marie Bowyer, The Invitation
Web Original
"I've been telling everyone that he's bad all fucking along and no one goddamn believed me!"
"I have spent long too quiet now but I can't anymore. I am 99% sure that @VeevaDash is evil but I can't get people to listen."
— William Beaver on Twitter, Stampy's Lovely World
Western Animation
Gangstalicious: (rapping) I got shot!
Audience: I got shot!
(three dudes get on stage and shoot him)
Gangstalicious: (not rapping) Ooh, I GOT SHOT!
Audience: I got shot!
Gangstalicious: No, I got shot for real!
Audience: I got shot for real!
Gangstalicious: No goddammit! I got shot! Some niggas shot me! I'm bleedin'! I'ma die'! Somebody please help me! HELP ME! (collapses)
Audience (confused): No goddammit! I got shot! Some niggas shot me! I'm bleedin'...
Huey: (voiceover) It was 45 minutes before anyone called an ambulance.
Audience: I got shot!
(three dudes get on stage and shoot him)
Gangstalicious: (not rapping) Ooh, I GOT SHOT!
Audience: I got shot!
Gangstalicious: No, I got shot for real!
Audience: I got shot for real!
Gangstalicious: No goddammit! I got shot! Some niggas shot me! I'm bleedin'! I'ma die'! Somebody please help me! HELP ME! (collapses)
Audience (confused): No goddammit! I got shot! Some niggas shot me! I'm bleedin'...
Huey: (voiceover) It was 45 minutes before anyone called an ambulance.
—The Boondocks, "The Story of Gangstalicious"
"Every time I see something cool, you say it's some kind of madness. Or I'm drunk. Or I ate too much candy."
— Fry, Futurama
"I don't mind being called a liar when I'm lying, or about to lie, or just finished lying. But not when I'm telling the truth!"
— Homer Simpson, The Simpsons, "Hungry, Hungry Homer"
"Chef? Have you ever had something happen to you, but nobody believed you?"
— Kyle Broflovski, "Cartman Gets a Probe", South Park
Splinter (in-Shredder's body): Wait! (the Turtles ready to fight) you must listen to me.
Leonardo: Not a chance Shredder.
Splinter Please tried to understand. I'm not really Shredder. I'm Splinter.
Michelangelo: Heh heh. You must think we're real airheads.
Splinter: Listen to me, Turtles. I have always taught you to look beneath the surface for the inner truth. (the Turtles listen in astonishment) See with your hearts, not with your eyes. Then if you still do not believe me, do with me as you will.
Donatello: You know, call me crazy, but somehow (putting his weapon down) I believe him.
Raphael: If you're crazy, (both Michelangelo and Leonardo putting their weapons down) then you're not the only one.(putting his weapons down)
Michelangelo: Count me in, too, dudes.
Leonardo: (putting his weapons away) It's good to have you back, Master Splinter.
Splinter: (sees that the Turtles believe him) It is good to be back.
Leonardo: Not a chance Shredder.
Splinter Please tried to understand. I'm not really Shredder. I'm Splinter.
Michelangelo: Heh heh. You must think we're real airheads.
Splinter: Listen to me, Turtles. I have always taught you to look beneath the surface for the inner truth. (the Turtles listen in astonishment) See with your hearts, not with your eyes. Then if you still do not believe me, do with me as you will.
Donatello: You know, call me crazy, but somehow (putting his weapon down) I believe him.
Raphael: If you're crazy, (both Michelangelo and Leonardo putting their weapons down) then you're not the only one.(putting his weapons down)
Michelangelo: Count me in, too, dudes.
Leonardo: (putting his weapons away) It's good to have you back, Master Splinter.
Splinter: (sees that the Turtles believe him) It is good to be back.
Real Life
On this show, the more kookier the alibi, the more I would be inclined to believe them.
— Joe Ford
on The X-Files, "Synchrony"
on The X-Files, "Synchrony"To describe the way things really are is to be a shit and we know what happens to shits: they are flushed away.
You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour and you will have war.
— Winston Churchill, after the Munich Agreement.
It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.
— Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
—Noam Chomsky
In a trial, the convincing testimony of a single witness can trump mountains of scientific evidence, even though it’s been shown time and time again how fallible memory is, something that we’ve just been reminded of yet again by Brian Williams...It’s a feature, not a bug, in human thought, and it’s how we skeptics, no matter how hard we try to avoid it, are often viewed by “regular people.”
You don't know what you have done. You don't know him like me, who had him under my orders. If you give Spain to him now, he will think it is his and will not let anyone take his place, not in the war nor after it, until his death.
—General Miguel Cabanellas on the election of Francisco Franco as new leader of the military rebellion, 1936
However this war may end, we have won the war against you; no one will be left to bear witness. But even if some were to survive, the world would not believe them. There will perhaps be suspicions, discussions, research by historians, but there will be no certainties, because we will destroy the evidence together with you. And even if some proof should remain and some of you survive, people will say the events you describe are too monstrous to be believed: they will say that they are the exaggerations of Allied propaganda and will believe us—who will deny everything—and not you. We will be the ones to dictate the history of the Lagers.
— SS officer, quoted in The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi
I remember when Mighty No. 9 was on kickstarter, and everyone was going apeshit over it. I was saying, "Guys? Inafune was the PRODUCER of Megaman. He was neither the director nor the head designer, he's the business guy. Not the creative guy." I even pointed out that games like Megaman Battle Network 4 have his name on it. But nobody listened. Fast forward to 2016 and... well...
— Comment on "Mighty no 9. What happened?" on YouTube.
Bandwagoning in the games industry has always been stupid, as far too many games publishers still think simply copying a successful game will also copy its success. But it was especially fucking short-sighted to try and flood the market with games explicitly designed to suck up a lot of the user's time and money. You just can't do that! Time and money is finite, as are the people spending it. There was absolutely zero sustainability in essentially strip-mining an audience.
I said all this. I said it moments after Ubisoft's magic money circle started showing up online; I said it again when publishers kept talking in interviews about how service games were the future; I said it when a bunch of games started pivoting towards services; I said it when Anthem happened. Obviously the industry didn't listen — it never does — and that's why we're now in a world where Love Live! School idol festival 2 MIRACLE LIVE! announces its shutdown in the very same tweet it announces its global launch.
I said all this. I said it moments after Ubisoft's magic money circle started showing up online; I said it again when publishers kept talking in interviews about how service games were the future; I said it when a bunch of games started pivoting towards services; I said it when Anthem happened. Obviously the industry didn't listen — it never does — and that's why we're now in a world where Love Live! School idol festival 2 MIRACLE LIVE! announces its shutdown in the very same tweet it announces its global launch.
