I've always said that any institution which deliberately cultivates an adversarial relationship between management and labour is in for serious trouble. How can you expect to fight your competitors when your people are busy fighting each other?
The developers at Infinity Ward and the publishers at Activision should be natural allies, and here they are trying to use coercion, desertion and legal action against each other.
This is how far a culture of skepticism, pessimism and fear will get you. Lots of estrangement and backstabbing.
"The worst part about these reviews is they are [subjective]--and their scores often depend on how drunk you got the media at a Street Fighter event." — Mona Hamilton, Capcom Senior VP of Marketing
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