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Drama At Infinity Ward

by Seanza • 2 Mar 2010, 10:52 • News
image: infinityward_logo

Without warning, a number of security guards turned up at the Infinity Ward offices yesterday afternoon. Information was hard to come-by as they would not disclose why they had arrived at the offices.

Apparently Activision had held talks with the top 2 at IW, Vince Zampella & Jason West, that morning. This following accusations that the business relationship between the 2 companies has been "tense."

A source claimed that the atmosphere & mood around the IW offices is that of one which is confused & freaked out. That same source then went on to say they "only want to make [their] games", possibly implying that Activision may pull out of their deal with Infinity Ward.

Activision cited a human resources investigation into possible breach of contract insurbordination by the afore mentioned employees Vince Zampella & Jason West. There seems to be truth in the rumours as far as Jason West is concerned after a friend of Jason provided G4TV.com with a screenshot from his Facebook account & Linkedin profile.

Facebook status on the left & Linkedin status on the right:
image: UPDATE-Security-Appears-Unannounced-At-Infinity-Ward-Studio-Heads-Missing-Staff-Freaked-Out-


I'll do my best to keep all you crossies up-to-date with this story!

Useful Links
My Source
The SEC filing made by Activision (tldr version not available :P)
Infinity Ward homepage
Activision homepage
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Krosan 2 Mar 2010, 10:55
I read the title and it gave me instant butterflies in my belly!
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Seanza 2 Mar 2010, 10:56
Main me plz! :D
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stKz 2 Mar 2010, 10:57
oh noes, moar e-drama
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TosspoT 2 Mar 2010, 10:57
Interesting, but crossies does suggest crossdresser which only krosan is
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Seanza 2 Mar 2010, 11:01
I'd say "crossers" would be more fitting for Krosan's kind.
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Krosan 2 Mar 2010, 11:05
gonna cut u up bitch
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Seanza 2 Mar 2010, 11:07
Bring it on bitch.

image: karate
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Krosan 2 Mar 2010, 11:08
aww.. now you ruined the newspost :(
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Seanza 2 Mar 2010, 11:09
He's a fair looking fella!
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Seanza 2 Mar 2010, 11:31
Look at the edit!
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Krosan 2 Mar 2010, 11:32
Much much better!
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zeec 2 Mar 2010, 10:58
Schoolshooting incoming :(
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Loekino 2 Mar 2010, 12:07
haha acting like they are kings
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Sainted 2 Mar 2010, 12:48
These two guys were there when most 2012 (company behind MoH:AA) employees left and founded Infinity Ward, so I'm expecting this will rip the studio apart and hopefully spawn a smaller studio aimed more towards gameplay than stupid systems like IW.NET.
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Krosan 2 Mar 2010, 12:52
I hope Robert Bowling gets out of a job real soon
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Sainted 2 Mar 2010, 12:58
Don't shoot the messenger.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was Activision pushing IW to develop the IW.NET system to be honest. Activision needed a system to sell DLC on the PC, which IW.NET probably delivers.
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Seanza 2 Mar 2010, 13:00
Afaik, the IW.Net system was heavily influenced by Activision.
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Krosan 2 Mar 2010, 13:01
Trust me, this time it's the developers who are the fucktards:

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=224900

QuoteWe always wanted to be on consoles and Activision saw us as more of a PC developer
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Sainted 2 Mar 2010, 13:15
Well I believe every game developer wants to work on consoles right now. Even companies like Splash Damage do, they have even recruited some developers for that purpose. It doesn't mean they want to dumb down the PC version though.
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Krosan 2 Mar 2010, 13:18
PC doesn't belong to the term "consoles", so they're basically saying: we don't want to work on PC versions no more
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Chr1s 4 Mar 2010, 20:04
Can you blame them?
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zerender 2 Mar 2010, 13:01
NO DEDICATED SERVERS? NO JOB!
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overdrive 2 Mar 2010, 19:02
no soup for you!
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MerlinatoR 2 Mar 2010, 13:09
breach of contract via internet trolling, win ;]
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Krosan 2 Mar 2010, 13:18
I think the internet trolling was a result of him getting fired over something else ;)
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Burneddi 2 Mar 2010, 14:02
>possibly implying that Activision may pull out of their deal with Infinity Ward.
>pull out their deal with Infinity Ward

FUCK YES THIS IS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE
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Lover 2 Mar 2010, 14:49
cant believe we are talking about the studio that brought Activision over 1 milliard :/
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zerender 2 Mar 2010, 16:04
billion*
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Lover 2 Mar 2010, 16:17
QuoteThe word "milliard", or its translation, is found in European languages and can be used for 109. However, it is unknown in American English, which uses billion, and not used in British English, which preferred to use 'thousand million' before the current usage of 'billion'.
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zerender 2 Mar 2010, 16:33
*billion to avoid misunderstandings!
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Bitmap 2 Mar 2010, 18:52
* 10^9 or 1000 million to avoid misunderstandings!

"billion" means 10^12 in most European languages.
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Nemesis- 3 Mar 2010, 16:15
we say gigadollars!
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caliban 2 Mar 2010, 16:27
hahahah!!!fufufufu

what beautiful day <3
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overdrive 2 Mar 2010, 19:02
http://www.bingegamer.net/2010/infinity-ward-has-not-received-royalties-for-modern-warfare-2/
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Seanza 2 Mar 2010, 19:04
I've taken it from G4 as they've been speaking with a contact linked to IW & Jason West.
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overdrive 2 Mar 2010, 19:06
im not sure which one of the two is the source, seem to be posted about the same time.
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Seanza 2 Mar 2010, 19:28
Other newsitems on the same story talk about 1 of G4's contacts. So I think G4 is the source.
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Dreamweaver 2 Mar 2010, 20:11
"Their seems" -> "There seems" I think. (Just a feedback).
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Seanza 2 Mar 2010, 20:25
Well spotted sir!
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number1dad 2 Mar 2010, 23:20
Saw this last night on IGN. I skimmed over that SEC filing and I would recommend doing the same if you're interested in what kind of direction video games are going in.
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VerSus 3 Mar 2010, 12:26
i dont get it whats the drama about :D
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ENSJQM 3 Mar 2010, 13:46
money, the root of all evil :(
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