Machiavellian said:
Would be cool if MS could rotate all those studios that only work on COD to also work on Halo as well. There is no doubt that ABK have a lot of season senior talent and if COD goes on a 2 year cycle, that will free up at least a studio or 2 to do either something new or help out with existing IP like Gears and Halo. It will be interesting to see how Phil work with the resources within ABK going forward. |
There's an interesting thing about that, Hoeg believes that the wording in the Ubisoft agreement can be twisted into saying that anything an Activision studio works on (such as Halo) would therefore be an "Activision title" and allow Ubisoft to claim it, Idas believes this not to be the case though, I suppose it's how you interpret the contract and different lawyers will interpret it in different ways.
Anyway, I don't think ABK will change drastically, COD needs even more staff than ever, so they'll be new studios opened for COD. Could get Toys for Bob off COD by opening more Infinity Ward studios and such around the world. They definitely won't move them to help on the far less popular Halo and Gears though, I don't think they even need to, Gears is fine and Halo appears to have fixed their content pipeline issue now.
But CA should be acquired and made into a full-time support studio for 343i in addition to working on original IP.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 17 October 2023
