Since studio founders Jason West and Vincent Zampella were relieved of their positions at Call of Duty creator Infinity Ward, a steady stream of senior employees have followed suit. Last time we checked the tally was 19 confirmed resignations, including the studios heads.
In the last few months the team that brought us Modern Warfare 2 has lost its Director, an engineering lead, two engineers, all four of its design leads, an art lead, both its animation leads, and 6 of its 7 writers.
According to VGChartz a current anonymous Infinity Ward employee had this to say:
“IW as you know it is dead…and it will continue to crumble. There are a lot more veterans who are definitely going to leave.” He added “They (Activision) never saw this coming. They can’t believe what’s going on. At first they gave us some bull**** about moving up payments of all the money they owe us to sooner increments. That was when [designer] Todd [Alderman] and [engineer] Frank [Gigliotti] left. But with the announcement of Respawn and all the people leaving, they just got their heads in their hands. They fired the two most amazing leaders we’ve ever seen, and then shafted us all out of a lot of money that was promised to us…there is nothing they can do to gain our trust or respect. And I’m pretty sure they know it now.”
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