Posted a new thread since this is a pretty huge development: https://www.resetera.com/threads/ig...er-even-more-plagiarism-surfaces.62038/unread
Directly reading a forum post in a video delaring it as your own "research" without crediting the source is pure laziness, not false inspiration.
That probably has nothing to do with this. He's been tweeting a lot, ranting about comment sections that complain about the "proper way" to review a game
I disagree. How would he remember line by line the HD rumble part? Even the structures of the other reviews would require a amazing memory to even remember the key words used.
Filip's review of Bayonetta 2 on IGN is still up for me it seems. Which is really weird. I thought it got taken down?
They worked together....for the love of God!!So this one is a bit of a grey area because they worked together, and maybe he got permission, but I think Filip might have ripped off another IGN staffer's review of Octopath Traveler in his Op-ed piece.
Seth Macy's review, July 12
http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/07/12/octopath-traveler-review
Philip's Op-ed, July 17
http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/07...-out-about-what-makes-their-game-so-appealing
...I'm not saying he's not plagiarizing...?Come on. It's just straight plagiarism.
These aren't ideas he's copying and misattributing them to himself.
He's copying sentence structure and content and changing words. It's blatantly obvious.
FYI it's looking more and more likely that most of Fhis work published on IGN has editorial copy in it sufficiently derivative of previously-published work that it is a significant ethical breach and will need to be removed.
We are moving on it as fast as we can as a Senior Editorial staff.
There are complications. Including challenges around removing review scores and the way out site CMS works (which is why Dead Cells unfortunately displayed a "0.0 Disaster" score for a time).
A final decision hasn't been made but I think the most likely outcome is all of his work will be removed, and we'll decide from there what we need to do in terms of replacing the back-catalogue of critical content we owe game makers.
What a completely shitty situation. Man, I can't even imagine the headache this would all be.FYI it's looking more and more likely that most of Fhis work published on IGN has editorial copy in it sufficiently derivative of previously-published work that it is a significant ethical breach and will need to be removed.
We are moving on it as fast as we can as a Senior Editorial staff.
There are complications. Including challenges around removing review scores and the way out site CMS works (which is why Dead Cells unfortunately displayed a "0.0 Disaster" score for a time).
A final decision hasn't been made but I think the most likely outcome is all of his work will be removed, and we'll decide from there what we need to do in terms of replacing the back-catalogue of critical content we owe game makers.