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IGN to scrub Filip Miucin from site almost completely after even more plagiarism surfaces (READ OP)
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I'm not familiar with this person or the game they're tied to. What's the deal with him exactly? Why couldn't they speak up?
Looks like they made a game called Innerspace. And are saying Philip caused them to lose sales from a bad review/preview or something?
I have to ask for the third time: Why did he even want this job if he didn't enjoy actually doing it? There's no fame or money in it.
I think this is an interesting and important point regarding this issue and the impact & responsibility of gaming journalism, in general.
This is a massive industry, bigger than Hollywood, but there's a lot of flimsy work done covering it. I think it goes all the way back to the total dog shit of early gaming magazines, where this whole thing started as a lark for a much smaller audience that was largely considered to be playing with toys for kids and nerds.
I think this is an interesting and important point regarding this issue and the impact & responsibility of gaming journalism, in general.
This is a massive industry, bigger than Hollywood, but there's a lot of flimsy work done covering it. I think it goes all the way back to the total dog shit of early gaming magazines, where this whole thing started as a lark for a much smaller audience that was largely considered to be playing with toys for kids and nerds.
This is just whack. Damn man. Just keeps me asking, "why work in video games if you don't care?" again and again .
Kudos must go to the mod team and the overall administrative group for tightening things up, while it's a fluid and developing event (due in no small part to Kotaku's rolling coverage, it's like a police chase) there are real people involved and nobody likes dirty laundry aired.
Ask yourself, what are you going to do? I don't bother with stuff like PAX but am seriously considering attending one of them soon just so I can personally show some support to the IGN folks. You should thank them and show them that they are still appreciated by the gaming community for all the hard work they put in.
On a related note, I am a little bit amused this has momentarily bounced the other 'is it stealing' topic from earlier (the rom site takedowns) - gee whiz.
Ask yourself, what are you going to do? I don't bother with stuff like PAX but am seriously considering attending one of them soon just so I can personally show some support to the IGN folks. You should thank them and show them that they are still appreciated by the gaming community for all the hard work they put in.
On a related note, I am a little bit amused this has momentarily bounced the other 'is it stealing' topic from earlier (the rom site takedowns) - gee whiz.
Wow, dude is clueless, bloody clueless. Why even work in game industry?
"I like playing games, must be an easy fun job."
Very common thing to hear in and out of the industry.
Miucin is that guy you get paired with in college for that project that is worth 40% of your term grade. Then he disappears and you have to do the whole damn thing by yourself and he still gets the same grade as you or your group.
Oh I remember the game Inner Space. He talked about it on NVC and it did seem he didn't fully understand that game.
I believe I remember it being the first game he "reviewed" as part of IGN.
The review itself as with everything else was taken off IGN though.
Speaking of other industries or markets besides video games, has there been any other writer who plagiarized or continues to plagiarize as much as Filip has?
We're writing this fucking movie now! I feel like if I got bored part way through and just started making up shit, fiction would've turned out to be real 2 weeks from now.
By the way, it's worth noting that Boomstick Gaming has now more subscribers than Filip's Youtube channel.. YAY!
Boomstick is at 73K
Filip at 62K
Small wins. At least there's this silver lining for the guy that opened the floodgates to this fraud. My hope is that the gaming journalism community, and just gamers in general will be a lot more sensitive about plagiarism. Even more, these people that Filip stole from will be given the proper compensation.
Boomstick is at 73K
Filip at 62K
Small wins. At least there's this silver lining for the guy that opened the floodgates to this fraud. My hope is that the gaming journalism community, and just gamers in general will be a lot more sensitive about plagiarism. Even more, these people that Filip stole from will be given the proper compensation.
Alright, I was in the side of "This guy is fucked forever, I feel bad for him". But now after seeing the size of this rabbit hole, good riddance. Holy shit, what the fuck?
Hey bad guys on internet, if you're reading this, never ever challenge the internet to find your dirty stuff, literally everything will be found. Even though I believe Filip stuff would have surfaced anyway even if he hadn't posted that video challenging people to find more instances of plagiarism.
You gotta be a special kind of dumb after your 1 instance of plagiarism get busted and then proceed to challenge the internet to find more instances of it (which Filip obviously knew beforehand that there was more instances, since he did them).
Hey bad guys on internet, if you're reading this, never ever challenge the internet to find your dirty stuff, literally everything will be found. Even though I believe Filip stuff would have surfaced anyway even if he hadn't posted that video challenging people to find more instances of plagiarism.
You gotta be a special kind of dumb after your 1 instance of plagiarism get busted and then proceed to challenge the internet to find more instances of it (which Filip obviously knew beforehand that there was more instances, since he did them).
Well the guy that hired him was already fired, but to steal a phrase used earlier, someone was definitely asleep at the wheel when it came to vetting anything.
Has this been posted yet? Miucin took at least one full sentence from Jose Otero's Abzu review. The craziest part is that Miucin's review even has a hyperlink to the Abzu review in the sentence that he took from that Abzu review.
Otero (Abzu Review, 2016)
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/08/02/abzu-review
Miucin (Inner Space Review, 2018)
http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/01/16/innerspace-review
Really Filip...
Couldn't come up with questions to one of the biggest RPGs of the year at least for the Switch...
The "You saved me a lot of work" part is probably what he hopes for often from other people
Jesus fucking Christ man. I can't imagine what else we'll find out at this point.
It's like his job was that class in College/Uni you really don't want to be doing but are forced to anyway, except this is supposed to be something he wanted to do
Did you see his plagiarized resume? That was a WTF moment for me. Why would someone do that to their own resume posted online for everyone to see.. knowing it was copied!
This has gone from "gotcha!" to "jeesh, what a scumbag" to "well, now this is just pathetic."
Does he have an original thought at all? That's so blatant.
Oh no. This just keeps getting bigger and bigger, holy shit.
Shit just keeps getting wilder. Dude couldn't think of even the most basic fucking questions?
I thought I'd stop being surprised after the plagiarized resume, but apparently not.
Every time I open this thread, something new has been discovered about Filip and his plagiarism.
I was the first one to write #metoo in this thread.
Sons, I have been Miucin'd
This might be the best one yet if only because he steals from his current employer and he actively puts the title of the game from the review he is plagiarizing into his new review. It's probably more work than actually formulating hisnown review.
I don't think so. This guy is Super Saiyan Stephen Glass.
Couldn't even do a puff piece interview by himself
You really had a winner here IGN
Holy shit.
Well, this is blowing my mind, but I guess now we know why he thought no one would find anything.
Cause if nobody caught anything till now despite extremely blatant shit like this, maybe it wasn't so unreasonable for him to think he'd been hiding things well.