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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they should totally sue

i only buy cods by iw

they are the ONLY activision games i buy, now no more?

so no more buying activision games (unless they port mw2 to wii, thats it tho)

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!

@maxwell

reading that response means im prolly done with activision

my fave game maker this gen, thrown in the streets cus the name is better?

i hated cod till i played 4, that name means fuck all to me

I imagine that Zampella and West aren't 100% in the right on this. I mean, we all envision Activision as the evil empire, but there's got to be some cause in there somewhere

I would like to know exactly what it was they got fired for, but they'll probably end up settling out of court.

Most contracts you sign with ANY corporation states that either you give us the right to fire you for any reason or you don't have a job with us, if they lacked that in their contract it's usually turned into "any wrong you do ever will get you fired, even if its only just "reasonable" suspicion that you could possibly do something wrong in the near future!" which then include the clause "any reason for termination forfits rights to royalty payments and anything you created while with the company" and then they send their teams to monitor you until you make a normal comment of any working man "I hate my job, corporate sucks ass" and bam you're booted for insubordination cause you're saying it to another employee and talking down about your higher ups...

Activision is finally going to get their just desserts. That makes me excited. They bullied around gamers and development studios long enough and got away with it. But burning bridges with Infinity Ward? They're gonna feel the financial sting of that. They're about to get EA'd (losing boat loads of money) sooner rather than later.

Yes. Even MS haters could easily admit that even Ballmer behaves better with his best brains, and we talk about a Scrooge that said US techs (*) should be paid less and that had the crust to cut benefits to MS employees despite them being amongst the ones that bring their company more income per capita. But he would never treat Bungie like Activision did with IW, actually at Bungie they were becoming tired of Halo, he gave them more freedom, and now, not forced, they'll deliver again good stuff.

(*) and back when he said that, despite not in the crisis yet, a lot of bad things were already happening to economy, like Enron, Worldcom, Andersen Consulting, the Argentinian Bonds scam, and it was evident thet they weren't justly paid techs to screw economy, but overpaid finance execs.

to me this sounds like: "We have given them MILLIONS of Dollars!! And all we got back was BILLIONS!!"

Well I won't be buying any more games published by Activision, unless I really want them and they're used copies.

Also apparently Activision interrogated West and Zampella for six hours in a windowless room and also made IW staff members cry.