Something is going down between Infinty Ward and Activision

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Reasonable said:

makingmusic476 said:

red_dragon said:
Not a stunt when Activision got the SEC involved. This is going to end up in court. I think that Activision wanted to do the subscription based COD and Infinity Ward heads said no and they got fired for that and probably going sued for breach of contract.

I'm thinking it might involve that as well.  Kotick has mentioned numerous times wanting to take Call of Duty in a pay-to-play direction/

This gets my vote.  Activision clearly want to milk CoD to the max, and with approaches beyond what IW want for "their" franchise.  IW comments have given me the impression they don't like the Zombie elements in World at War, nor trying to take the franchise to Wii, plus they don't seem keen on any form of 'pay to play'.

I think we're seeing a real big business vs the developer bust up going down.

Yeah... that's probably not far from what happened. However, does Activision believe that they can keep IW devs after this, and making games with the same quality? Sometimes when the big guy goes, others follow.

If this makes IW disappear or become much less skilled, it could be big trouble for Activision (which is already facing trouble from over-milking the Guitar Hero franchise).