Love Live! School Idol Festival 2 Miracle Live had its release date and its cancellation announced in the same statement, marking a new level of absurdity in gaming. The media landscape is in freefall and, funny as this is, it’s really quite concerning.
Announcellation: Entertainment Media Is Losing Its Mind (The Jimquisition)
Love Live! School Idol Festival 2 Miracle Live had its release date and its cancellation announced in the same statement, marking a new level of absurdity in gaming. The media landscape is in freefall and, funny as this is, it’s really quite concerning.
what’s crazy is the last love live game was just taken down. people were looking forward to this one because of that, but I don’t even see the point now
You’re right, while it is laughable, it’s also sad, and the entertainment industry has become a parody of itself. It’s not surprising, but it’s disappointing.
Reminder to all: buy physical Nintendo games and don’t feel morally wrong about using custom firmware when their servers inevitably go down and their updates inevitably stop.
I remember a few years ago, there was a multiplayer horror game where you play as the equivalent of Dr. Who’s Weeping Angels. It wasn’t a very good game, but what was notable about it is that there was a specific counter that ticked down every time a player died. And once that counter went down, the game was supposed to end.
It caused a lot of discussion, mostly because it was a game that was directly advertising that it was going to end. Though, that was completely intentional on the developer’s part, and something specific would happen when it ticked down to zero, but I never followed up what specifically happened.
I’m sad that when you say ‘proof positive’ that we don’t see a pic of Tim Curry from Clue. Also Tim Curry generally.
Big love to Past and Present Stef 💖
Sweetheart you *are* entertainment media.
Y’know, there’s a certain helpful honesty in giving a live service a defined lifetime instead of just stringing it along indefinitely.
But on the other hand, it be better to, y’know, not shut down every game as soon as the money hose starts to slack out. Like you don’t have to keep updating but maybe let people run private servers or something.
Never thought I’d see Love Live on this channel, this timeline is fucking unreal.
Sometimes I’ve thought, as a gag and a goof, that you could actually release a game then update it to never work the day after and it’s technically legal. Right? You can just do that. Take away somebody’s game that they paid for. You could just do it.
Seeing Love Live! on The Jimquisition was not on my 2024 bingo card. Or any bingo card, for that matter.
When’s the Surprise Mechanic comic book coming out?
Maybe… live service games are shit, ya think AAA game industry?
Thank you for what you do Zilla- you’re doing great!
BORN TO DIE / GAMES IS A FUCK / Cancel Em All 2024 / I am late-stage capitalism / 410,757,864,530 DEAD LIVE SERVICES
remember when games came in a cartridge and you just plug it in and zoom, you were playing it?
“It would have been the perfect gag if satirists had thought of it before reality did.” 😂
what a Clawful dystopia we live in
I liked SIF and was sad to see it shut down, but I assumed that they were cancelling it because SIF2 was right on its heels. I figured, you know, the first game was ourdated but it was probably still making money. They wouldn’t kill the living game for no reason, right?
My hopes slowly deflated as the months passed but I still waited for SIF2 to come to Global. It’d be late, it sounded like it wasn’t going well in Japan, but at least I’d get to play the game I liked again! I was so excited to see the release date!
…and then I read the second half of the tweet. Truly a situation of all time.
great episode, extremely funny. I like all the Jimquisitions but this one gets a triple like. Good job Steph and good job Zilla
I’m sure I’m not the first person to say it in these comments but what makes this really sting is that the original Love Live: School Idol Festival (which was a really solid rhythm game for mobile with good music appended to one of the earlier massively profitable gachas) was shuttered just before its tenth birthday in 2023 with the promise that SIF2 would replace it. The worldwide release has been delayed for nearly a year, and then its release date and EOS were announced together. It’s astonishing. The franchise is still popular and profitable, of course. It’s a baffling decision.
Speaking as a Love Live fan, the jp version is actually gonna close at the end of March, so there’s only gonna be about a month when both servers are open. Feelsbad, they killed 2 decent games for a shitty one that’s already terminal lol