You know what I mean. He's not going to say anything on social media nor should he while IGN is doing an investigation.
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IGN removes their Dead Cells Review, investigating plagiarism. (Update: Writer Responds)
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Is it really rife? How often does this really occur? I'm curious now.
Serious question, ever write papers in school? If so, and you don't see how IGN copied from an original source for their review then I have nothing to assist you in understanding this was plagiarism.
I don't see what his mental health has to do with plagiarism at all but I'm not the one who brought it up, I was just responding to someone else. It doesn't matter. He will not be exonerated because he felt bad before stealing from someone else's work.
I just don't understand why would you copy a review. Either this is just a big mistake/coincidence or has to be an extremely dumb decision.
He's actually 28. He talked about going to a Labo event with his 8 year old and it came up he was a younger dad when his son was born. Not that age would matter because IGN probably goes ethics and plagiarism in orientation. It's sort of the foundational no-no of any journalism field.
More like his career in journalism is done. No media company worth their salt is going to touch someone who got fired for a very public case of plagiarism.
Not sure anyone is angry, I'm pretty sure people are concerned with the fact a website stole original content from a small and independent reviewer.
Very good points. We will have to wait and see. But it's going to be awkward in the next NVC...
Agreed! I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they have someone else fill in for him this week.
I'm aware what it is and in no way called that into question.
It also isn't the end of the world, no, but in my opinion this is unnecessary and tasteless and championing things of that nature strike me as contrary to ERA's usual values. It's not a huge deal to me in the end but it's something I see a lot in threads like this and it irks me.
A job is still stressful, even in video games. He could've been doubting his writing abilities, or ran out of time and was afraid to ask for an extension.
Not an excuse, just saying career insecurities can make people do dumb things.
Yikes. Even if Filip is found to be innocent of this, his reviews will always be ultra-scrutinized from now on.
I'm not...ugh. No where did I say this wasn't plagiarism. In fact in a follow-up post I said it is 100%. Walk on friend.
Infinite amount of monkeys typing on infinite amount of typewriters...
I quoted your words. Their post was concern about how he would respond the his situation combined with outside criticism/abuse from social media. You said you need to have bad mental health to do it in the first place. I'm trying to help you understand why that sounds so ignorant (and why BronsonLee responded to you as well).
What the fuck? With ANY game 90% of the forum isn't going to care. But this is a topic that affects all games journalism, which I'm sure like 50% of the community care about one way or another.
I agree as well.
Be firm and strong in criticism, but avoid the gratuitous toxicity to make yourself feel better about someone else's circumstances.
It's a comment on how all games critics write the same because they all think in the same way. They're all cut from the same cloth. They read mostly only games reviews so their reviews inherently end up sounding incredibly similar. What I'm saying isn't that deep or insightful, it's fairly common knowledge amongst games critics that there are certain standards.
EDIT: Kunzelman sums it up here better than I can: https://twitter.com/ckunzelman/status/1026815416788762625
I'm not caught up yet but anyone saying things like "I don't know, it's close but not exactly the same " or "He read from a press kit" probably stopped about a minute in. I felt similar but the last minute especially clinched it for me because that was pure opinion and some of the lines were word for word the same.
well done LebGuns, well done.
Wish it wasn't the case tbh, reviews for the game seem like they really nailed it
Yeah dude you gotta remember that bringing up someone's mental health like that ain't really fair Funny Valentine
Considering the amount of publicity this story is gaining (hasn't even been 24 hours yet), it would look really bad for IGN if they decide to keep Filip. How can people trust his reviews again, or IGN's credibility if they decide to "support" the plagiarizer?
If he had a solid body of work with IGN, then sure, give him a little benefit of a doubt. However, the fact that he is relatively new to the company and this is his *first review with IGN, then this is unacceptable. It's offensive to other gaming journalists and I really hope IGN does the right thing.
*EDIT: his first IGN video review that he edited himself. See his tweet:
https://twitter.com/FilipMiucin/status/1025922295569702912
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he copies bad youtube reviews, his ceiling for a journalism career wasn't exactly high to begin with.
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Where do people keep getting this from? This isn't his first review....
User Banned (3 Days): Inflammatory thread derailment. Vilifying games journalism.
Big surprise, games journalism continues to be trash!
Also it really bugged me that there is ZERO coverage of Evo 2018 at Polygon today, but plenty of space for articles about Gaming's Toxic Men and Alex Jones Ban controversy. I mean fuck, they cover games still, right? Biggest fucking FGC tournament and they can't even do a single summary article, unreal.
Also it really bugged me that there is ZERO coverage of Evo 2018 at Polygon today, but plenty of space for articles about Gaming's Toxic Men and Alex Jones Ban controversy. I mean fuck, they cover games still, right? Biggest fucking FGC tournament and they can't even do a single summary article, unreal.
Pretty much.
If you go back and watch Game Scoop's episode where they presented him, Daemon said that basically they hired him because of the success of his channel, and his IGN-ish style which consists of:
- lots of contents everyday
- short flashy videos (often under 5 minutes, never above 15 minutes)
- lots of reviews for accessories, giveaway,...
- clickbaity thumbnail, and always begging for more likes and more subs.
The rest of the success is due to the Switch popularity so hats off to him for riding the opportunity, but that doesn't make him a good reviewer anyway, he just played well the rules of youtube.
I wonder if he copied some other reviews when he was still producing contents for his channel.
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I'm sure he could have made a lateral move into doing community and media work for Nintendo like many attempt to do after working in company focused game/tech journalism.
i think people were saying that the things he said in his reviews are press release material. not that he actually copied something from the press release.
For me there is a big difference between a mistake and conscious dishonesty.
I'm a statistician/analyst in my job, sometimes I make a mistake with the number becuase I've got a formula wrong and that's fine, as you say everyone makes mistakes, it happens. But if I fiddled the numbers to read what I wanted to to read that is a dishonest thing to do and a conscious decision I made and if caught I would expect to be relieved of my duties and rightly so.
What has happened with this IGN review falls into the latter. This is not just a mistake, it's a calculated decision to steal and it is unacceptable IMO and the jounalist in question should lose his job.
I expected this to be about stolen gameplay video. Dead Cells has been out for like a year, why would you even need to plagiarize the review? You figure someone could form a half decent opinion just through osmosis, plenty of people have talked about the game.
His first IGN video review that he edited, added the correction on my original post.
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