Infinity Ward insider says the studio is “dead”

[Sorcery]

Activision fucked up, plain and simple.

When you have a development group that makes games that sell like MW and MW2, you shut the fuck up and give them what they want to keep them happy. The higher ups at Activision were stupid enough to think that they could impose their will upon Infinity Ward, and this is the end result.


Maybe Zampella and West wanted to secede because they wanted to move in a new direction and Activision said "no, make more MW2". Maybe they were courting EA because they weren't getting paid their bonuses. Maybe IW didn't like "pay-to-play" business practices. Maybe Activision was just being a bunch of douche bags in another way. No matter what happened, Zampella and West clearly thought they could've had it better somewhere else (or Activision was just making excuses in order to fire them). The executives at Activision clearly don't get it, IW owns their balls, not the other way around.

I'm glad that this is happening. The game industry is one of the only industries where executives can't exploit the people with talent and get away with it. Hopefully the execs learned their lesson.