You think this could actually Happen?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tinman
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You think this could actually Happen?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tinman
we can but only hope, i've been pretty negative of blizz since they joined up with acti/tard.
anyhow good on IW. so oom bob kotick behind the bs afterall then
Hmmmm, great personnel retention strategy from Activision. Fire the (seemingly) popular heads of one of their main development houses, and everything will obviously just continue as per normal business... Will be interested to see whether (if they are fired) they set up an independent studio, and if they do, whether staff will desert IW and join the independent firm.
If that should happen, expect to see the other publishers trying to buy the independent dev studio...
Blizzard is still a company on it's own.. In corporate structure it has nothing to do with Activision.
It's the BoD you have to talk about...
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/04/ou...st-activision/Quote:
Former Infinity Ward heads Vince Zampella and Jason West are bringing a lawsuit against Activision for breach of contract and other claims, after Activision terminated their employment on March 1. The press release announcing the suit claims that Activision was scheduled to pay "substantial royalty payments," but fired them before the date of the payment.
"Instead of thanking, lauding, or just plain paying Jason and Vince for giving Activision the most successful entertainment product ever offered to the public," attorney Robert Schwartz said, "last month Activision hired lawyers to conduct a pretextual 'investigation' into unstated and unsubstantiated charges of 'insubordination' and 'breach of fiduciary duty,' which then became the grounds for their termination on Monday, March 1st."
In addition to compensation, the suit seeks to return the contractual rights Zampella and West previously had to the Modern Warfare brand.
Dam you Activision!!!!!!!
If Vince and Jason win this. We could CoD returning to it's rightfull glory.
Suck my ass Kotick.
this is quite interesting... the repercussions of this will echo through the whole gaming biz!
Bob Kotick can go crawl in a hole or something.
Infinity Ward will never be the same :/
There's an update with this.
Since Activision is fishing around for papers detailing that Zampella and West were trying to leave Activision, the former employee's lawyer has stated that "any suggestion that they were in talks with EA (or any other company) to leave or start their own team is known to Activision to be completely false and, therefore, an irresponsible comment for Activision to be making. They are fishing, and there are no fish in the sea."
When asked about what the contract between Activision and the ousted heads of IW, Schwartz said, "[West and Zampella] have a contract that spells out their rights to control future Modern Warfare games, after Modern Warfare 2."