Infinity Ward Founders File Lawsuit Against Activision

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Rhonin the wizard said:

Activision's response to the lawsuit:

Activision is disappointed that Mr. Zampella and Mr. West have chosen to file a lawsuit, and believes their claims are meritless. Over eight years, Activision shareholders provided these executives with the capital they needed to start Infinity Ward, as well as the financial support, resources and creative independence that helped them flourish and achieve enormous professional success and personal wealth.

In return, Activision legitimately expected them to honor their obligations to Activision, just like any other executives who hold positions of trust in the company. While the company showed enormous patience, it firmly believes that its decision was justified based on their course of conduct and actions. Activision remains committed to the Call of Duty franchise, which it owns, and will continue to produce exciting and innovative games for its millions of fans.

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Such a canned response, its like they have a machine for these responses... yeah we did all we could, its totally out of the blue that we fired these guys right before we were supposed to pay them their royalties.  It just so happened they were doing something we could question (which if anyone knows in corporation speak could be damn near everything) and we let them go, we did no wrong!  Oh yeah keep buying our games please!