IGN PLAGIARIZED a Review from a YouTuber!?

48 Comments

1. Games journalists being unethical again? Did gamer-gate not do it's job the first time? Looks like it's time for round two people.

2. IGN SHOULD HIRE boomstick gamer! to replace philip miucin!!!

3. Phillip is probably done now in the YouTube/IGN/Editor space. Wow.. best of luck to Boomstick!

4. I only go to IGN for tips on certain games, usually stuff like where to find rare items, places to grind levels, etc.

5. I like the new format, it feels like a podcast of 2 people having a natural conversation, instead of reading a teleprompter.

6. The Washington Post is not allowed to do articles critical of its sponsors.

7. Hey The know. Have y'all found those microtransactions in Forza 7 yet? I've been playing the game for a few months now and still can't find them. Get back to me on that will ya….

8. Similar? Them twins, son! Most of what boomstick said is 99.8% plagiarized.

9. Why is that lately Ashley moans or speaks ocassionally like she was hard holding a fart?

10. I like this format a LOT better than the normal format; two people sitting and colloquially discussing game news. Drastically better than the scripted face-forward standard format previously. It feels a lot more casual & real. Kudos. Keep this up!

11. Greg Miller turned me off from that site/scene for a long time… What strange world do I wake upin every day?

12. Take this as an opportunity to review how and what reviews are, content creators. Don't ape the film critics or the people who aped them when video games were new.

    For me, I'd approach it like the scholarly process in peer reviewed articles and journals in academic fields.

13. "Gaming review community" ? What on earth?

    Also, the game's creators describe it as a "Souls-lite, rogue-like Metroidvania", iirc.

14. The First problem is that IGN doing game review or news is a joke. The second, refer to the first

15. This felt like it was 10 min longer than it needed to be.

16. I CAN'T FIND PHILIP'S NAME ON THE STAFF LIST ON IGN!!!

17. My guess is he wanted to make a really good review but afraid he couldn’t as a new ign reviewer so he stole content from boomstick

18. Yup. Yet another reason IGN sucks.

19. He even tried ripping off Nintendolife. He got caught then and tried it again with a smaller channel. I used to like him, but what else has he tried plagiarizing?

20. They fired the guy, put a statement out about it and apologized to Boomstick for what happened. Gotta give IGN a little credit for doing the right thing.

21. Its been now confirmed that filip plagiarized in his own youtube chanel, such as fifa18 being riped from Nintendo life.

22. Dreamcastguy as a budy of filip clarified that filip did play the game both where in discussions through out the time of reviewing, but dreamcast guy still could not understand why after that filip just pulled a 180 at the end.

23. I love that mug

24. Didn't The Know not properly credit SidAlpha?

25. I used to post on the gamesradar forums one of my post was verbatim in an article they wrote even went as far as using a picture from that Forum post in the article

26. maybe IGN will hire Boomstick…

27. ?Ashley

28. This is great publicity for the game. I probably wouldn't have heard about the game if not for this controversy.

29. Awesome pixel like mug!

30. IGN fired the guy that plagiarized this lol, damn that was quick. It’s on the IGN site

31. I can't imagin being this dude right now. Got a job at the top company in the industry, moved his life, made friends with people at the company. Now that you reached the peak of the mountain top you fall off a cliff. Everything has changed, and this guy can never work in this industry again i would think. What a story

32. While this sucks… You have to admit that it has done nothing but help Boomstick, he now has 40k subs, a HUGE jump from 11, and the amount of views hes getting because of this means lots of money… And hopefully compensation from IGN for stealing his work and profiting from it.

33. boomstick has 40k subscribers and will continue to grow

34. Of course it's not IGN's fault in general but they should definitely give all the credit and revenue to the YouTuber.
    Maybe IGN's reviewer didn't have enough time for the review and too much pressure but this doesn't excuse what he did of course.
    To make such a thing less likely to happen again maybe two people should make one review together. Of course that means double the working hours/salary for one review but if they for example let two people with totally different opinions and points of view review a game that makes the review even more objective and more interesting and maybe this creates a new trend.

35. Im just disappointed at filip

36. in english if thats what the game actually does its possible 2 intelligent well articulated gamers could say almost the same thing…..example…if i ask anyone about dark souls they will almost always say its…hard… when your explaining the systems of a game those aren't going to change person to person because they are the same for everyone. just saying its possible.

37. Damm ign be lazy huh ….

38. hah, i guess we know how the IGN editor got through school.

39. I’d get thrown out of college if I had done this

40. if anyone noticed that IGN reviews in the last several years went to worst quality. its like they didnt play the full games. also they dont have a professional team to try a game in a different way and give it a score depend on that. instead they let only one employee to give his opinion which is unfair cos maybe that guy dont like that kind of game and give it poor score. they also dont give a time to play a game they always rush. look at angry joe, he take time to play full game . anyone agree?

41. Drain the gaming Swamp! Boomstick is awesome!!

42. Bruh i like your shirt

43. Who cares?

44. It's imperative we don't normalize this sort of underhandness. The nail in the coffin was when he blatantly lied on instagram regarding this being "his" first "editorial" for IGN. My question is, is their a vetting process for editors at IGN? It would seem not. What a plonker, very self destructive. Peace!

45. IGN is stealing content, I guess they want to be Pewdiepie

46. I don't get why would they be so flaberghasted over filips assholery… Most youtubers seem to me like a bunch of spoiled kids who don't really want to work hard and make easy money and fame, so when one of those get into a site as big as IGN it's befitting to take a close look at his work… I'm guessing they'll find more of this kind of BS more often than not…

47. I saw this on Reddit. It's pretty nuts

48. Can i copy your homework?