Infinity Ward heads ousted?

super_furry

Only for a little while. With no subscription fees, they’ll be minor blips on the balance sheets.

SeantheMan

Maybe they'll go back to their roots, rejoin EA and make the next MOH !! ...awww....one can dream

sarumite

Chairman Meow wrote: »

did anybody ever think they would hear the words 'trailblazing' and 'EA' in the same sentence?
Hard to believe there was a time when EA were the Activision of their day.

LOL, I was thinking the same thing....then along came Burnout paradise and battfield bad company as well as a host of original IP such as Dead space, Mirrors edge, and dragon age...hell even Fifa has overtaken PES as the game of choice.

degrassinoel

super_furry wrote: »

Only for a little while. With no subscription fees, they’ll be minor blips on the balance sheets.

the real question is how long will WoW last? Its been a money-dynamo for the last 5 or 6 years, with another expansion imminent - possibly another two solid years of 15million or so subscriptions. I doubt they'll stop at that either, far too much money to be had.

PogMoThoin

For those of you who aren’t yet aware, Activision locked down the Infinity Ward offices after a meeting with (former) Infinity Ward bosses Jason West and Vince Zampella. When the story first broke nobody had any Earthly clue why Activision would shítcan the studio co-founders and lock the Infinity Ward offices down like they were trying to quarantine a zombie outbreak..................

...............................Infinity Ward has yet to be paid a single dime in royalties for Modern Warfare 2, which has earned Activision over one billion dollars in revenue. (NOTE: To clarify, everyone who spoke with James mentioned this. Whether or not IW and Activision had an agreement in place for royalty payments is unknown at this time. It’s just curious that everyone brought this up.)

http://www.bingegamer.net/2010/infinity-ward-has-not-received-royalties-for-modern-warfare-2/

Burgo

PogMoThoin wrote: »

http://www.bingegamer.net/2010/infinity-ward-has-not-received-royalties-for-modern-warfare-2/

Some media reports have inaccurately conflated this week's situation with outstanding royalties from Activision to Infinity Ward. But sources confirm to Gamasutra that Activision routinely pays royalties at the end of the quarter after which they were earned, which will begin next month, meaning the publisher is not overdue in its financial responsibilities.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/27482/Analysis_Infinity_Wards_DoubleEdged_Sword.php

PogMoThoin

It looks like the former leadership of Infinity Ward are not going down without a fight. Former Infinity Ward CTO Jason West and president Vince Zampella have officially filed a lawsuit against Activision, according to a press release issued by their law firm, O'Melveny & Myers LLP.

According to the release, West and Zampella were terminated by Activision "weeks" before receiving royalties for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Activision purchased Infinity Ward in 2003.

"We were shocked by Activision's decision to terminate our contract," said West. "We poured our heart and soul into that company, building not only a world class development studio, but assembling a team we've been proud to work with for nearly a decade. We think the work we've done speaks for itself."

http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/702970/Infinity-Wards-Jason-West-And-Vince-Zampella-File-Lawsuit-Against-Activision-.html

God I fcukin detest Activision with a passion, not only have they killed Sierra Entertainment, one of the best game studios there has ever been, now they've gone and killed Infinity Ward as well

dreamers75

PogMoThoin wrote: »

http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/702970/Infinity-Wards-Jason-West-And-Vince-Zampella-File-Lawsuit-Against-Activision-.html

God I fcukin detest Activision with a passion, not only have they killed Sierra Entertainment, one of the best game studios there has ever been, now they've gone and killed Infinity Ward as well

Odd i used to like EA they made road rash, i used to like activison they made pitfall and cali games(yeah your all humming the tune now).

greedy bastards :mad:

Kiith

Drakar

dreamers75

Court sort of finished, some mad **** has come out of it.

too many websites to post articles from

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-05-17-activision-attempted-to-hack-zampella-west-email-report

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-05-17-zampella-west-now-want-over-USD1-billion-in-damages-from-activision

I thought it was going to be over.

legal lads want to try make a stab at wtf Activision are going to be done for?

calex71

dreamers75 wrote: »

Court sort of finished, some mad **** has come out of it.

too many websites to post articles from

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-05-17-activision-attempted-to-hack-zampella-west-email-report

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-05-17-zampella-west-now-want-over-USD1-billion-in-damages-from-activision

I thought it was going to be over.

legal lads want to try make a stab at wtf Activision are going to be done for?

Lmao some of the stuff in those articles could make it into the plots for movies or games, like wanting to stage a fire drill to hack into their email

Cuddlesworth

calex71 wrote: »

like wanting to stage a fire drill to hack into their email

Would be the easiest way to do it. They would really be relying on both of them leaving their machines unlocked. .One of the guys I work with used to check Executive rooms/computers in a large company for bugs/devices. He found too many of them over the years. Some really clever ones too. It gets like that in company's that only talk about things in multiples of millions without having to point it out.

Shows how stupid the guys on top are too. You spend a fortune on dual vendor firewalls, secure locked rooms, password policys, account access restrictions and IT security training for staff, then go straight to your IT guy and ask him to hack into somebody else's system? It doesn't happen.