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IGN to scrub Filip Miucin from site almost completely after even more plagiarism surfaces (READ OP)
- Thread starter chubigans
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This is why:
This guy is the Gilderoy Lockhart of game reviews.
Nah... from all the stuff that has surfaced it looks like some form of personality disorder. Which would also explain why he didn't think he did anything wrong and challenged the world to find more evidence. The guy created a bubble he lives in. He is in need of professional help. I feel sorry for the people close to him right now :/
LOL!
And all these new examples. This guy just keeps on giving. Absolutely pathetic.
I wonder if, in his mind, this is what journalism is. Crowdsourcing opinion and presenting it in an aggregated fashion.
Seems highly unlikely for him to notice those small technical details. I think it's safe to say that his normal procedure of creating content was:
- Reading / watching other reviews / analysis / even forum posts
- Extracting parts of those articles / videos / posts
- Putting them together in his "own work", rephrasing those collected parts slightly.
That's *exactly* what he was alluding to in his apology video.
He claimed that "researching" other people's views and reviews of games is legitimate while reviewing a game.
It's completely the opposite. A review is *your* views, your personal journey with a game. Unabridged by other influence. Instead it is clear why he said what he did. His content was little more than rewording the works of others and taking full credit.
I wouldn't be surprised if he honestly thought this was how the industry works, which is completely depressing.
Ugh, a former IGN staffer opens up about her experiences with Filip. He sounds outrageously manipulative.
This guy is so scummy.
I haven't been keeping up with the news
So Bayonetta 2 and Octopath reviews were copied. Anyone got the example for Octopath review. Then former IGN NVC host had a few bad words to say on Twitter. New things are happening fast it's hard to keep up, the OP needs to be updated with everything including Kotaku response to Neogaf post being copied saying there are more examples.
So Bayonetta 2 and Octopath reviews were copied. Anyone got the example for Octopath review. Then former IGN NVC host had a few bad words to say on Twitter. New things are happening fast it's hard to keep up, the OP needs to be updated with everything including Kotaku response to Neogaf post being copied saying there are more examples.
i think the real joke on the whole story is his 2014 tweet about " if you steal from one author it´s plagiarism, when you steal from many it is research"
he really followed this guideline...
he really followed this guideline...
Did he seriously copy from the work of his own coworker, without permission? Are you serious? For fuck sake, lol.
As noted by u/captainporcupine3 via reddit, Filip apparently lifted his "thoughts" on Fire Emblem Warriors from an article published by Nintendo Wire.
No he didn't
Alot of examples he just plagerised from one source. So he even failed to follow that quote
Well, he's a great researcher. He stole from many people. Not at the same time, though.
It was just a mistake and I'm sure he'll learn from it and become a better gaming journalist, of couse. /s
Well he plagiarised from one source, but he did it many times, so maybe in his head it technically counts as many authors. xD
I think this thread is a collusion between the mods and Phantom Thief in order to boost Phantom Thief 's post numbers. Change my heart.
Sure is starting to look like it.
This is bizarre to me. I guess he thought nobody would ever find out? Or it wasn't a big deal?
It's pretty easy to get invested on here but a particular event provoking a 50+ page thread on Resetera doesn't have any bearing on the broader community's reaction to, knowledge or understanding of said event. Miucin's antics disappeared from the front page of r/gaming days ago and 99% of the gaming community probably couldn't name a single writer on IGN's team, let alone care that one of them was doing something unethical.
IGN will be fine and nobody will care within the month, like always.
Thank you
Can we have the OP updates with all the reviews he copied, Fire Emblem, Octopath, Metroid, FIFA, Dead Cells, Bayonetta 2, HD Rumble.Also a transcript of his deleted apology.
Then have all the nitty details of responses, Kotaku stating there are more examples, HD rumble guy saying he didn't know what he was on about, Dreamcast guys personal opinion of him as he knows him. Former IGN NVC staff tweet about him and etc. All this needs to be nicely collated. As he most likely reads Era after all he stole from GAF it would be nice not only for everyone to see everything we have on him but also for.himself to see.
It's a copypasta (Yes, with deliberate irony,) of a famous GAF post.
Not to be taken that seriously.
I'm no game reviewer, but playing many games, especially to completion, is a long process. I spent nearly 100 hours in Persona 5 and that was spread over several months. Reviewers are working on much, much shorter timelines. It's not playing for fun for them, especially in a situation like that. I'd fucking hate that game if I had to compress my play time down to one or two weeks.
And I suppose anyone could have an opinion; a 10 year old could play a game and say what they liked or didn't like. However, writing for a major publication isn't your third grade book report. Putting the game in context (the genre, the company, consumer reaction), and then also making your opinion worth reading and readable? That's not easy. There's really only one review site I read regularly, and that's because I feel like they do a lot of those things most of the time.
*chef's kiss*
It's really "funny" how people predicted that this would happen, i.e more examples of his plagiarism showing up, and yet people kept defending him because it happened only once or twice. Hope you learned your lesson not to cape for fucking thieves.
"Plagiarism is no crime but that doesn't matter because there was No Plagiarism (except by Press Sneak Fuck and Slowtaku)!"
"Plagiarism is no crime but that doesn't matter because there was No Plagiarism (except by Press Sneak Fuck and Slowtaku)!"
Make a post with all that info, and the OP will put it in the OP.
Disagreed; the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance
The Top 5 video in that person's post is literally the personification of Filip's tweet about "research".
Man. It's one thing to plagiarize something that is unique such as expertise or knowledge, but how do you plagiarize someone's opinion? This is word for word stolen. I'm honestly starting to wonder if this guy legitimately doesn't understand what plagiarism is, hence his awful apology, or if he's just that big of a scumbag.
Yup. I disagree with Joe sometimes, but he really is one of my favourites just because of this. I of course don't think his opinions are the best, but he comes across as genuine, honest and makes it fun to watch lol
Golden.
Does Filip actually have an opinion, holy shit. Not even his own deleted apology video seemed to be anything but copied.
As I write this, there's a four hour old thread on /r/games that has a 1.9K upvotes.
What's even worse is that Nintendo Wire's article was based on the experience the author had while playing the game at E3 2017. Filip attempted to play it off as his own opinions he formed after playing the game at the following San Diego Comic-Con.
You gotta indicate if something is a joke or not, dude. As shocking as it is, this tweet isn't completely unbelievable.
You're right. This really should be bannable, or at the very least warnable and bannable after multiple infractions. Mods, take note.
I hear Phil is planning on writing a novel to take some time away from the industry. It apparently is about a man named Ahab and his search for a large, black whale.