Glad this guy got caught and is having his "work" scrubbed from IGN. As a writer it always pisses me off when people plagiarize other hard-working people and take credit for it.
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IGN to scrub Filip Miucin from site almost completely after even more plagiarism surfaces (READ OP)
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Let's be real here: this is all his fault. Had he not left to pursue his dream of working at Nintendo IGN wouldnt have to fill his vacancy with Filip and none of this would've happened!
Damn you, José!
This dude neva should've frigging left Youtube and became a pitiful game "reviewer" @ IGN. shittin hell!
The more things change, the more they stay the same - Bon Jovi
I step out for 5 hours and here were with more stuff that this guy plagiarized. I'm just... wow.
I'm a little shocked that he invited Kotaku and other people in his "apology" video to search for other signs of plagiarism when it took little to no effort to find these many other examples. I mean, could he really be that oblivious to the fact that it's not hard at all to find this crap? What an utterly shameful shitshow.
Smart on IGN to pull all his shit before people find more examples of plagerism. Just scrub it clean and deal with re-reviews later.
Has anyone checked his apology video's script? Want to check if he's ever written an original word in his life.
I've never said I'm a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I'm not. I've said and done things I regret, and the words released today on this more than a week-old review are one of them...
-Flip's Apology, August 15 2018
-Flip's Apology, August 15 2018
Filip Miucin is a fraud, but I don't know if I agree with this attitude wholeheartedly. I don't think many of the write-ups and expressed thoughts I read on Era or get from some of my favorite YouTubers and whatnot are easy to write up and think up, necessarily. Writing about games that amounts to "I like this thing" or "I dislike this thing" is easy, but trying to break down and articulate something like "why the gameplay is good" takes way more effort than I think people give credit to...
The normal mode of discussion of games is easy, yes... Because it is usually just "I like this/I don't like this," but the well-thought-out analysis brought to the table by content creators like SuperBunnyHop or some of the work by dark1x on Digital Foundry in the DF Retro episodes isn't just off-the-cuff thoughts, it's well formulated, often hard-researched thoughts brought together by a lengthy editing and thought process to articulate it as poignantly as possible, and I know for sure that I can't pull that shit off.
Why the fuck would you dare people to find more examples of your plagiarism when you know for a fact that you did that shit a lot? It was probably going to be found regardless, but that's still really dumb.
This human being should not have departed from Youtube and become a disgraceful merriment "reviewer" at IGN. Pah!
I can't believe this guy got hired in the first place.
Edit: Actually, let me revise my post so that it reflects my own words better.
This dude never should've left Youtube and became a shameful game "reviewer" at IGN. Sheesh!
Edit: Actually, let me revise my post so that it reflects my own words better.
This dude never should've left Youtube and became a shameful game "reviewer" at IGN. Sheesh!
So let's see what has been uncovered so far...
Dead Cell's Review (Boomstick Gaming)
Fifa 18 (Nintendo Life)
Metroid Samus Returns Review (Engadget)
Explaining what HD Rumble is (NeoGAF)
Bayonetta 2 Preview (Polygon)
Octopath Traveler Preview (Polygon)
Octopath Traveler article (IGN, yes he literally copied his co-worker's review)
Dead Cell's Review (Boomstick Gaming)
Fifa 18 (Nintendo Life)
Metroid Samus Returns Review (Engadget)
Explaining what HD Rumble is (NeoGAF)
Bayonetta 2 Preview (Polygon)
Octopath Traveler Preview (Polygon)
Octopath Traveler article (IGN, yes he literally copied his co-worker's review)
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Dan has had already a conversation about this on twitter and he explains it better. There's simple no realistic way to find something like that ahead of publication:
You guys should read the full convo on twitter.
This is insane
So many people work their asses off writing reviews and other content for small websites just out of passion, while dreaming of working at IGN or something like it one day. They spend forty, sixty hours a week gaming and writing about them and make next to nothing if anything at all. They sometimes even buy review copies out of their own pockets.
Yet this asshat gets paid a salary to review video games and copies from these people.
So many people work their asses off writing reviews and other content for small websites just out of passion, while dreaming of working at IGN or something like it one day. They spend forty, sixty hours a week gaming and writing about them and make next to nothing if anything at all. They sometimes even buy review copies out of their own pockets.
Yet this asshat gets paid a salary to review video games and copies from these people.
Truly the greatest free thinker of our time.
We have a LOT of evidence that he extensively played the games he reviewed for us. Was competent with them on stream, knew a lot about them, played them in office, held lots of convos with people about specific elements of the games.
At this point I'm in "trust nothing" mode believe me - but so far this does not seem to be the case of trying to dodge the play time requirement and instead something more about the written work itself.
At this point I'm in "trust nothing" mode believe me - but so far this does not seem to be the case of trying to dodge the play time requirement and instead something more about the written work itself.
Somehow he had the audacity to plagiarize from his own co-worker for the Octopath op-ed a few days after his co-worker's review.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/fi...amples-discovered.61255/page-64#post-11475107
