"The Power Of Silence: Why The SimCity Story Went Away"

[kane_magus]

"Why has the SimCity story gone away? It's a good question. And the answer for it reveals much about how both the games industry, and the games journalism industry, work."

Let's look at a few choice quotes from this article:

"Silence is a powerful weapon in the industry. The mad truth is, if you ignore it, it will go away, when it comes to gaming controversies."

"The principle is if you keep saying the same thing over and over, people will start to accept it. And heck, that couldn’t be more true."

"The credulous press is then flooded with 'positive' stories, which they dutifully report, and the questions and controversy slide off the bottom of everyone’s news feeds."

Hey, owsf2000, aren't those things that RPS is saying about the game industry/game journalism there pretty much the same things that you have been saying for, like, a decade or more now? *nods sagely*

Comments

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

Yep.