{"id":9551,"date":"2011-01-21T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T08:46:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"activision-claims-infinity-ward-held-back-mw2-stimulus-pack-to-help-ea-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/9551-activision-claims-infinity-ward-held-back-mw2-stimulus-pack-to-help-ea-out","title":{"rendered":"Activision claims Infinity Ward held back MW2 Stimulus Pack to help EA out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shacknews.com\/onearticle.x\/67210\" target=\"_blank\">Shacknews<\/a>, Activision is now accusing former Infinity Ward heads Jason West and Vince Zampella of purposefully delaying the release of a Modern Warfare 2 map pack in order to give EA a clear release window for its own modern warfare themed military FPS, Battlefield: Bad Company 2.<\/p>\n<p>The basis of the accusation stems from an email which came to light during ongoing legal proceedings between Activision and the former Infinity Ward heads. According to Battlefield executive manager Karl-Magnuss, &#8220;A couple months ago, I asked Vince [Zampella] to hold back their map pack. Until after we launched (he owes me one). Given that they&#8217;ve already made a billion, he was cool with that, obviously [Activision CEO Bobby] Kotick took it as being belligerent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Stimulus pack was launched about one month after Bad Company 2 came out, but EA claims that the entire thing was a joke. EA spokesman Jeff Brown said, &#8220;It&#8217;s clear from the e-mail this was a joke and they never spoke. We explained this to lawyers at Activision &#8212; who apparently don&#8217;t have much of a sense of humour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Activision recently named <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/9115-Activision-names-defendant-Infinity-Ward-lawsuit.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Activision names EA as defendant in Infinity Ward lawsuit\">EA as a defendant<\/a> in the ongoing legal battle that involves ex-Infinity Ward heads Vince Zampella and Jason west, laying out a number of accusations. EA <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/9121-responds-Activision-lawsuit.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"EA responds to Activision lawsuit\">responded<\/a> by dismissing allegations as a petty PR stunt.<\/p>\n<p>Discuss the <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/10165-Activision-lists-EA-as-defendant-in-US-400-million-lawsuit\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Activision\/Infinity Ward\/EA legal shenanigans\">Activision\/Infinity Ward\/EA legal shenanigans<\/a> on the MyGaming forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EA insists they were kidding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}