| Dr.Grass said: ^^ I don't quite think it's that much of a conspiracy theory. |
I'm sure it isn't one.
It doesn't take a bunch of cloaked figures having secret meetings to get conspiracy-like results. It just takes a lot of people with a similar mind-set and similar values which leads them to have similar reactions to the same issue.
It's called groupthink. You get an insular group of people who mostly deal with each other rather than outsiders. They meet with each other, read the same books, watch the same movies, play the same games (the ones the other game critics said were awesome, naturally). They start to share the same values, and ideas which are new to the group tend to get stifled or rejected. People who present these new ideas get marginalized. You present the group with a problem, and they'll tend to give the same answer.
It's a dangerous trap in all kinds of organizations, because it leads to stagnation and rigidity of ideas. It can look a lot like a conspiracy, but it's really just a group of people in similar positions drawing on the same pool of stagnant knowledge.
"The worst part about these reviews is they are [subjective]--and their scores often depend on how drunk you got the media at a Street Fighter event." — Mona Hamilton, Capcom Senior VP of Marketing
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