Whilst I was busy earlier this week forgetting I had a blog, the Quest-Online-Plagiarising-BioWare kerfuffle culminated in Derek Smart pointing his finger at his hired PR, the hired PR proofreading her apology as well as she proofread the initial press release, and Derek Smart then pointing his other finger at BioWare for stealing the quote from John Smedley in the first place. (Oh, someone else did it first? That's ok then!)
This is a convenient thing to say when Google, which is pretty well known for finding words on the internets, fails to return any relelvant search results for the Smedley quote apart from pages that have reported on the kerfuffle this week.
In fact, it appears as though the origin of that quote - misspelling of "multiplayer", incorrect capitilisation of "EverQuest", and all - came from the Kill Ten Rats comment thread in which Derek Smart later replied. Can't get enough of that Copy and Paste.
But what do we know? 2004 was a long time ago; a scary, strange place where video cameras and laptops were not yet invented in order to transcribe the 2004 New Orleans Fan Faire keynote.
So I asked John Smedley.
I have no idea of [sic] I ever said that. But given that he's attributing it to me in new orleans I doubt it. Maybe I said it some other year.
Or maybe not. With other Fan Faires being as well transcribed as the 2004 one (i.e. not), it is almost impossible to verify if Smed said this quote, or anything remotely like it. But surely that's not an issue we have to worry about. I mean, surely Derek Smart wouldn't just pick up a quote on, in his words, a "little known blog site" without sourcing it, right?
I'm still not seeing your source there. Nice.
Nice work, asking Smed if he said it. This "sourcing" idea might catch on some day.
Posted by: Ethic | May 11, 2010 at 07:34 PM
Mmh but why u did plagiarised this ? I dont see a sense.
Posted by: kostenlose mmorpg | August 17, 2010 at 03:43 AM
They need to stop hiring cheap PR people. I like the part about the "Both F13 and KTR are little read blogs. They are not mainstream media." so they felt it was safe to steal content from?
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Or maybe not. With other Fan Faires being as well transcribed as the 2004 one (i.e. not), it is almost impossible to verify if Smed said this quote, or anything remotely like it. But surely that's not an issue we have to worry about. I mean, surely Derek Smart wouldn't just pick up a quote on, in his words, a "little known blog site" without sourcing it, right?
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