Infinity Ward Bosses thrown out by security

Hopefully the guys who made COD4 so great walk and form their own company... and ATVI hooks a stinker... which hopefully includes the slime that is fourtwozero.
 
How can their contract be up, the IP be part owned by them and they be missing royalties when Activision own IW...?!
 
those two guys have what appears to be a legitimate gripe and something even more valuable - the skills to do it all over again.

Sacking them is a relatively futile effort and smacks of throwing your toys out of the pram.
 
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dbmzk1 said:
How can their contract be up, the IP be part owned by them and they be missing royalties when Activision own IW...?!
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actiovison probably don't own them, only own them and any IP they make i that time for so many years.

Then presumably it's up to iw if they want to renew it.
 
titaniumx3 said:
I hope they start their own studio and create some sort of spiritual successor to COD4, with proper dedicated servers.
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That's pretty much how they started off as IW anyway wasn't it, guys leaving 2015 to make a spiritual successor to MOH:AA in the form of Call of Duty? :p
 
SkeeterUK said:
Jason West and Vince Zampella, two lead developers at Infinity Ward, met with Activision earlier today. Then they seemed to disappear and "bouncer-types" showed up at the studio.
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Obviously no one told them that Activision isn't balanced for lean. Ever.
 
Big corporation in ******** on the little(er) guy shocker?

Dedi servers or not, Activision sitting on one billion dollars for a week longer than they should is criminal.
 
SkeeterUK said:
Activision also adds that it will be releasing another Call of Duty game this year. That game is believed to be developed Treyarch.
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This says it all about Activision tbh. It doesn't matter if the quality of the game will be terrible, or if its buggy, or if they push it for early release when its not ready. There cash cow is rolling out no matter.
 
The corporate nature of Activision rears its ugly head.

Publisher Activision announced today new "strategic plans" for the Call of Duty franchise, announcing a new developer for the shooter franchise and confirming the departure of key Infinity Ward staffers.

The plans include the formation of a dedicated business unit that will bring together its various new brand initiatives with focused, dedicated resources around the world. The company intends to expand the Call of Duty brand with the same focus seen in its Blizzard® Entertainment business unit. This will include a focus on high-margin digital online content and further the brand as the leading action entertainment franchise in new geographies, new genres and with new digital business models.

"2010 will be another important year for the Call of Duty franchise," stated Mike Griffith, President and CEO of Activision Publishing. "In addition to continued catalog sales, new downloadable content from Infinity Ward and a new Call of Duty release, we are excited about the opportunity to bring the franchise to new geographies, genres and players."

The company expects to release a new Call of Duty game from Treyarch this fall. In addition, Infinity Ward is in development on the first two downloadable map packs for Modern Warfare® 2 for release in 2010.

The company is also for the first time announcing that a new game in the Call of Duty series is expected to be released in 2011 and that Sledgehammer Games, a newly formed, wholly owned studio, is in development on a Call of Duty game that will extend the franchise into the action-adventure genre. Sledgehammer is helmed by industry veterans Glen A. Schofield and Michael Condrey. Prior to joining Activision Publishing, Schofield was the Executive Producer of the award-winning game, Dead Space and Michael Condrey was the Sr. Development Director on the game. The Dead Space franchise has won more than 80 industry awards worldwide including the prestigious A.I.A.S. Action Game of the Year and two B.A.F.T.A.S.

The Call of Duty business unit will be led by Philip Earl, who currently runs Activision Publishing's Asia Pacific region and previously served in senior executive positions with Procter & Gamble and Nestle. Activision Publishing veterans Steve Pearce, chief technology officer and Steve Ackrich, head of production, will lead Infinity Ward on an interim basis. Jason West and Vince Zampella are no longer with Infinity Ward.

Lastly, Activision Publishing announced that the company is in discussions with a select number of partners to bring the franchise to Asia, one of the fastest growing regions for online multiplayer games in the world.
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I get the impression the two IW guys that were sacked weren't happy with Activion's plans for whoring out their IP. They weren't going to play ball so Activision got rid of them.

Stay classy, Activision. Who's up for some Call of Unchartered then?
 
I bet they dissolve Infinity War within the next year or so. Once they have the CoD franchise fully in their hands they'll have no need for em any more.

I was thinking about just avoiding buying any more Activision games. Not in protest over the sacking, but because I really don't like the way they're trying to move the industry. Bigger and a hell of a lot uglier than Hollywood at it's worst! Then I realised... Starcraft 2! :(
 
I would love these 2 guys to setup a new team and start developing with the PC in mind again.
Take us back to the original COD atmosphere with dedi servers and mod tools.
But before you setup the new team take that cabbage robert bowling somewhere in the middle of the sahara and bury the *****.
Bobby Kotick and robert bowling must be 2 of the biggest tools in gaming.
They are 2 of the many reasons why gaming is going downhill.
 
They'll hammer the CoD franchise into the ground. Get as much money out of it as possible, then look to the newest thing and rinse and repeat. They did it with Guitar Hero, they did it with Tony Hawk, they will do it with CoD.

They sacked the two founders of the IW company, and replaced them with people who will take CoD wherever Activision wants it to go. There will undoubably be more from IW that jump ship/are pushed.

If you love the CoD series, say your goodbye's now.
 
Well said spirited.
That's exactly what activision do with all of their franchises.
It's why people should boycott their games.
The only thing that keeps these companies open is us, our pockets are what drives their shares up.
Bobby Kotick buys up games companies when they're thriving then thrashes their games to death and then dumps them.
For the shareholders it's great news but for us gamers they are killing gaming.
They fired the 2 men that started call of duty and most likely replace them with a couple of toe-nails.
Two guys who will be so far up bobby koticks arse the only thing you will see are their toe-nails.
 
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