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I'd love to know what it feels like. To feel so secure in your employment. That you think it's fine to just not do your job and still get paid. Boy that must be a good feeling lol
That point at the end about paying reviewers, made me remember *Gus Sorola* from Achievement Hunter, saying that people were stupid for thinking that press could be bought out by companies, while having the giant Pipboy limited edition on his arm, and another one on the desk... lmao
It was hilarious too when on twitter someone tried to call out IGN in 2016 and some IGN writers immediately jumped down his throat for not naming names. Lmao they wanted to know if they would be indicted.
Video games journalism is a fucking joke anyway and it has been for almost a decade now. I understand a tonne of games are being released every month, but not every game has to be reviewed.
remember when that one ign reviewer that played the game on the easiest difficulty and gave it a bad review because the game ended abruptly, and then the developer tweeted him that he has to play it on a higher difficulty to see the ending, and the ign dude was being all smug about the dev being salty about the review only for it to blow up in his face and he ended up quietly edit the review. IGN has always been shit, and they let shit like this happen all the time without any consequences, like your typical Internet journalist.
For journalists that actually care about the profession, plagiarism is one of the worst things you can do. This guy might want to start looking into new careers.
Johnny Begood New employeer: Have you ever had experience in journalism? Guy: I was a video game journalist. NE: ...I'm gonna put that down as 'no prior experience'.
well in a world where everyone is trying to steal your personal info, sell you shit, or infect your computer with viruses ppl tend to gravitate towards names they recognize
They're known for being shit among informed gamers. They're known as the biggest game reviews company among people who aren't as informed or just don't give a shit. You'd be surprised how many people are in the latter category.
King Daniel The Dandy whatever.. they don’t do anything worse than anybody else they’re just “hardcore” gamers favorite whipping boy right now. COD bad Konami bad Witcher 3 good Death Stranding cool! Blah blah blah I download all my opinions in 5gb files from Reddit. Jesus Christ I fucking hate gamers 🙄
MBelasko12 you know what dude, that's fair, cut out the middle man, if his reviews are good enough to steal, just hire him, it's not stealing if you hire the person you stole from, now it's hr test
I respect YongYea's video (and the Forbes article he uses) for talking about how Boomstick Gaming was actually really cool about the whole thing, showing kindness and understanding towards the guy who stole his work and wanting to find a solution where everyone benefits.
Yes. I say that, objectively, God Hand deserves more than a 3/10. God Hand is not a fundamentally broken game. Controls take some getting used to but still offers a good bit of customization. It is a game that rewards skill and encourages ones to get good to get more rewards. God Hand is not unbeatably hard, fairly fair and does offer a wide range of tools. Aesthetically it's rather unique with few games even approaching what God Hand offers. It doesn't overstay its welcome. And while the game isn't much of a looker it's mechanics had effort put into them. It's weird and quirky. And deserves more than a 3, objectively. Not everyone's going to be into it, due to its quirks. But I'm not going to, say, rate Overwatch a 2 because I'm not into team shooters. Aside from the fact that I never played Overwatch because I'm not into team shooters. Save the 3/10 for the bad, dull, uninteresting games.
Even if it was the guy's first time ever doing something like this, even if he apologized for 24 hours straight, he'd still deserve to be canned and shunned across all journalism. Plagiarism is for journalists the equivalent of dropping your pants and taking a dump in front of the Pope for Catholics.
I remember plagiarizing a single paragraph from Wikipedia for a one page paper during my Freshman year of High School. Yes, I got caught. Yes I got an F on the assignment. Point is, I felt like a real piece of shit for doing it and it was really childish of me. What really upsets me is that IGN would hire someone like that, when they're the most viewed when it comes to reviews. They have so much potential when it comes to consumer awareness in games, but they're pulling shit like this. Glad the dude got fired. Really hope they quality control their staff more.
Wajima I was going to use myself as an example too but choose someone else. Kinda annoying when someone ask's "What's wrong" when they know damn well it's just my face
This is why more and more youtubers gain ground. In fact the only decent gaming channel to me right now, that reminds me of good old 90s publications in YT is digital foundry, they still approach stuff form a clean technical angle, and its retro section is amazing. Polygon and IGN are absolute morons, in fact the intermediary period stuff like Escapist and RPS also degraded themselves now that I think about it.
When they're talking about having to do reviews of games you don't care for, I want to shout at the screen: "That's why it's a job and you get *paid* for it asshole! Cause sometimes you don't want to do it!"
PALACIO254 The actor who played the Comedian is now playing a watered down version of the Comedian in a show that is failing so fast the lead actor is quiting this season, is now in a fighting game as the company is posting the character on everything because they think it is saving the franchise but it really hasn't.
You guys act like this is new. I personally know someone ripped off by a Rolling Stone guy too lazy to go to a music festival (despite his obvious free ticket). He directly quoted my friend's slightly fabricated (best to his imagination) quote of the singer word-for-word among other clear lifts (like only mentioning the bands my friend saw and skipping the day he missed).
I like this guy because he used the same plagiarisms tech i use to write my essays in one day. Just copy what people say in a video and change up some words here and there
You know if he stole the review he could have taken the points from said review. Play a bit of the game to have enough material to make your own review
There's too much IGN/some guy conflation going on here. What this one guy did isn't really related in any way to IGN as a whole. That's like blaming all youtube "personalities" for the shit that some of them pull. I mean, the review got pulled and the dude fired within hours of it coming out and it's really hard to check for plagiarism beforehand when it's taken from a youtube video without transcriptions.
Wow... for once, someone got their review on a games sight and actually did get paid in EXPOSURE bucks. I guess this is the secret for all those writers getting screwed over by game review sights- just make your reviews yourself, and then leave them in a place where they can be easily stolen. That seems much better than the no money and shit boss set up you have now.
Not even remotely a bad idea, tbh. Pretty much everything they've ever played on the channel or in their streams is either fun as hell, interesting, or at least amusing. Even the Saturday Morning Scrublords stuff that they keep pulling out of the burning dumpster these days.
