Bethesda lands in trouble for allegedly plagiarizing a Dungeons and Dragons adventure

[BigDes]

My new gamebook Gaols & Other Places has a similar intro

here are no things that people do little and important like the desert. In all respects, most ponds are walking on the ground, and most of the sky is high above. The Vuerthyl Oasis is a collection of sunglasses in the sunshine of the Anauroch Valley.

In a variety of ways, arrange the Azam you meet with the bike in the big castle, where the Calimshan hospital passes a groom. Two files that look like no heat are close to the visitor's eyes. The interior of the tent is bright with light and wind, although it is as hot as anything else. The quiet voice is an air-filled instrument and a person who seeks food, drinks and conversation. The colourful colour scheme welcomes you and guides you through a table without anything. There are several travelers here.

 

[SirNinja]

It's truly remarkable that in the wake of the Miucin scandal, and the growing ease with which works can be checked for originality, people continue to not only plagiarize, but do it so damn lazily. This was literally just a copypaste job with a few operative words replaced with close synonyms. Same sentence structure and everything. Kids who plagiarize in middle school usually put forth more effort.

 

[Gacha Santa Alter]

When asked for comment, Bethesda PR replied with "M'aiq saw a mudcrab the other day."

 

[Trisc]

Isn't this not the first time they get caught doing this? I recall hearing a DLC for Fallout 4 was straight up ripped off from a custom mod expansion for new vegas a fan had made.

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It was a sidequest in a Vault in Far Harbor that ripped of the NV mod Autumn Leaves, yes. It's a real shame, too, considering Far Harbor is genuinely one of the best things about Fallout 4.

 

[LazyLain]

Get them some Miucinex, stat.

 

[Weltall Zero]

Holy shit. Miucin's disease etc. etc.

The rewording is particularly gross in how it kills the prose and turns it into such an ugly mish-mash of literary and vernacular language ("nothing beats the desert" and then in the next sentence "enormous dunes roll across the landscape").
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SophisticatedAsHell

Anyway, Bethesda landing in legal trouble given how zealously litigious it is is... ironic.

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Or, in less diplomatic terms, supremely hypocritical. :D

 

[astro]

No, he just copied it.

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Well played.

 

[Phellps]

That is some inception, a tolken derivative suing a tolken derivative

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Everything is a Tolkien derivative. Copying someone else's work almost verbatim is a whole different issue.

 

[Kalentan]

So uh... Has it not been posted that this wasn't official? At the Netherlands studio the campaign was made just for a few employees. It was hosted on drop box and so when the ESO twitter handler found out they posted the link. It wasn't meant to be used as anymore than just for those employees.

 

[Lukemia SL]

Filip Miucin's problem is burying its way into the depths of the industry.

 

[Xero grimlock]

Imagine being so attached to a company's defense that you are trying to defend plagiarism.

Nobody thinks Todd Howard wrote this shit, don't worry.

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imagine hating a company so much you dont give a shit about facts.

 

[7thFloor]

When asked for comment, Bethesda PR replied with "M'aiq saw a mudcrab the other day."

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lol

 

[Prototype Viktor]

But to be fair, D&D is what launched the entire derivative genre within the medium that Elder scrolls is.

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it will forever live in the top 5 of almost subtle racism of all time

 

[jonamok]

I'm thinking of writing a series of fantasy books for seniors called The Elder Strolls.

Planned volumes as follows:
Dangerfall
Tomorrow's Wind
Oblivious
DryGin

Can't imagine anyone having a copyright problem with that, right?

 

[TheYanger]

imagine hating a company so much you dont give a shit about facts.

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Which fact do you purport I'm misrepresenting? Or are you just upset at people for pointing this out as well? Again, nobody thinks anyone plagiarised besides the person that did. Nobody is representing that that happened. So it's not a defense to pull out facts like they're being misconstrued - they aren't.

 

[data]

Any updates on this? Did they rewrite the campaign?

 

[Wulfric]

Filip Miucin's problem is burying its way into the depths of the industry.

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You should have read the article. This was meant to be a private campaign among some employees and the people in charge of the Twitter uploaded it wholesale.

 

[Lukemia SL]

You should have read the article. This was meant to be a private campaign among some employees and the people in charge of the Twitter uploaded it wholesale.

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