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Posted: Apr 26th 2010 8:39PM Ezio Auditore da Firenze said

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I thought it was a comet? =/

Posted: Apr 26th 2010 8:40PM Sam406 said

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What bothers me is that no one is saying anything. Even a toddler can put toghether that everyone leaving IW for Respawn is no coinsidence. It has to be personal, but then again, why wouldn't they pay their greatest studio their well deserved bonuses?

And if it's nothing terrible then why keep Amrich, your link to the public, compleatly in the dark?

Can somebody bring me up to speed here?

Posted: Apr 26th 2010 8:46PM Johnnynumber5 is powered by cell said

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No one is saying anything because there is on going litigation from Activision (corporate espionage) towards IW co-founder West & Zampella and litigation (for unpaid bonuses) from West and Zampella towards Activision.
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Posted: Apr 26th 2010 8:45PM F1 Basu Gasu Bakuhatsu said

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Actually you're both wrong. It was Turok.

Posted: Apr 26th 2010 8:46PM R Planteer said

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This is EXACTLY what happened with Tecmo/ Team Ninja. Itagaki was owed royalties from DOA4 from Tecmo. Tecmo refused to pay. Itagaki left, took a bunch of his crew with him, and they made their own company.

This actually caused a large drop in Tecmo's stock price.

The end result was Tecmo ended up merging with Koei. Obviously Acti/Blizz is too big for that to happen, but still its funny how history tends to repeat itself.

Note to game companies: Pay your developers.

Posted: Apr 26th 2010 8:54PM Gco said

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Interesting theory. I wonder though, if Treyarch did become IW how would the additional people from IW team mesh together in the workplace? I doubt Activision would care at this point.

From a PR perspective, merging the two would probably so more harm than good to their image. It would show everyone that they had no plans to pay out the earned bonuses in the first place.I believe it would also hurt their talent/recruitment pipeline, as no one would want to work with a company that has had a public image of being shady/greedy/not caring about ethics.

Posted: Apr 26th 2010 9:02PM Gco said

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damn reply system lol
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Posted: Apr 26th 2010 9:01PM Crimsic said

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All three of you are wrong.

It was me.

Posted: Apr 26th 2010 9:02PM TakeCTRL said

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Battlefield: Modern Warfare!

Posted: Apr 26th 2010 9:09PM (Unverified) said

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I thought this was appropriate.



http://www.redbubble.com/people/chickensashimi/t-shirts/4999589-6-corporate-warfare

Posted: Apr 26th 2010 9:15PM Johnnynumber5 is powered by cell said

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Good work man.
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Posted: Apr 26th 2010 9:30PM original fred said

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The dinosaurs died because you touch yourself at night.

Posted: Apr 26th 2010 9:37PM TheMichaelJackson said

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I killed the dinosaurs with my dancing powers.

Posted: Apr 26th 2010 9:42PM Mr Khan said

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It was all a big scam on EA's part from the beginning. They send West and Zampella over to work for Activision, make a franchise so big that Activision would become totally dependent on them, then leave and return to partner with EA and leave Activision to collapse.

It's brilliant!

Posted: Apr 26th 2010 9:49PM Ottozero said

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What can I say, Blizzard Please for the LOVE OF GOD!!!! Divorce this Bastard of a company Activision... oh yeah at first He loved you, would call you everyday, and buy you stuff to impress you....but now you see his TRUE SIDE....eViL....gReeD.....Sequel after sequel.....Please blizz..leave him.. leave HIM!!!!!

No but seriously I'm happy for Respawn (good name too) and hope Infinity Ward crash N burns....along with Anti-christ-vision :D

Posted: Apr 26th 2010 11:04PM SilverPR said

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By this point of the drama we can say....

Less Seniors Staff in Infinity Ward = Epic Fail

Posted: Apr 26th 2010 11:17PM OnToGloryReturns said

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The truly sad thing is that Activision will continue to crank out COD and the general public, who know nothing of these issues, will eat it up and Activision will continue to roll in money - for a while at least.

The thing I'm hoping for most is that the court rules that West/Zampalla have creative control over the MW brand and Activision can never release another one - they'll still make money but that would be a big satisfying FU in their direction.

Activision isn't the only greedy, slimy publisher in he business but they truly represent everything that is wrong with the industry - I'll make my teeny tiny contribution by turning my customers off from anything they publish - Split Second over Blur, MOH over COD, etc.

Posted: Apr 26th 2010 11:22PM SilverPR said

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I agree with you, no Activision games from me. Even if millions of morons still buy their s#!t, I will made my contributions, small even though.
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Posted: Apr 26th 2010 11:26PM Inect said

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How do you not touch your self at night? Think about it.

Posted: Apr 27th 2010 12:59AM ScottG13 said

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Can we all agree that IW is no more? Core talent and leadership are gone. That's it. Whatever is left will become something different. But now IW. Activision thinks the value is in the brand. Game buyers will determine whether the value is in the talent or not.

Posted: Apr 27th 2010 8:05AM (Unverified) said

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But you're also forgetting that the common gamer is also a moron that couldn't give two shits about Activision, blind loyalty will make them buy under the Infinity Ward name - even if they removed all of it's staff and replaced them with some new guys.
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Posted: Apr 27th 2010 10:12AM Architecture said

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If Activision wanted to stop the talent from pouring out of its premiere developer, they should've installed a siphon filter...

Posted: Apr 27th 2010 12:39PM SnatchTease said

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HAHAHA ACTIVISION FAIL HAHAHA DIE DIE DIE HAHAHA ALL CAPS FTW HAHAHA

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