It's no trouble, the article is well written and is a great in-depth look at all of this development turmoil you are speculating about. It also destroys any idea that Titanfall was a "stolen CoD".

@spaceballs
clearly its all fabricated. You really think cod stole from them? Cod must've been in dev wwwaaaaaay before ti tanfall. It makes sense. Or cross streaming?? I mean ok whatever. Its your opinion

Did i stumble on to the fanfic section of the forum or something?

good thinking.. the thing is, no one really knows what happened. you got a well developed "conspiracy" though.

Actually, it is trouble because
a) it's 25k words
b) it's an e-book, not an article
c) it's written by Geoff Keighley
d) it costs a dollar
e) I'm not supporting either Keighley or Respawn with my money

Secondly, crossing streams as you mentioned earlier is actually complicated.

Take this metaphor of a crossing stream.
Two streams have the same fish. They adjoin but don't touch. Which is more likely?
A) That two streams used to be one?
B) Settlers took fish from one stream and populated them in another?

If by "crossing streams" you mean that the team worked on both games (like the fish analogy), then I'd agree. Because that's my assumption. If you mean that Respawn had absolutely no knowledge of the CoD future game, and it was new breach of contract between the two companies by sharing ideas with one another, I would disagree.

I thought we were making extended Ghostbusters references

I'd rather see EA fall then Activision Blizzard. In all honesty, I think Activision is repetetive sometimes, but they don't pull the same BS EA does.

My very first assumption was that it was a GB reference, but then thought maybe he was just giggling at 'crossing streams' as in two people pissing (which is why I went with "It's the same guy taking a piss in two different places")

But now that I see Ludicrous Speed is actually J_Allard, who iirc used to have an avatar of an old tv show or movie character...and his new name is a spaceballs reference, I could imagine that it was indeed a ghostbusters reference. But without confirmation, this will just have to remain another conspiracy theory.

Are you crazy?   You don’t cross the streams!! Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes... The dead rising from the grave!
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

After reading the Op again, a number of points do not actually play out as they are described during the events where Vince and West was fired from Activision. To much is pure opinion that does not match up with the information we do know how things went down.

First: Vince and West were not looking to sell a game to EA, they were looking to leave Activision. They were looking to have EA help fund a new studio for them once their contract was up. One of the big reason it was rumored they went this route was the money not paid by Activision for Modern Warfare royalties which amounted to a huge sum of money (its always a money issue right). Vince and West did not just go to EA, it was rumored they actually met with a few other publishers looking for a deal.

Even though Modern Warfare Advance Warfare seems to have some connection to Titanfall because it has players with exosuits climbing walls but after that, there is nothing that really is the same between both games. Both games go totally different directions and the only thing you can really draw from the 2 games that are similar is that both are in the future.

The next thing to remember is that Activision had plenty of chances to sue Respawn and they would have had plenty of changes to stop Titanfall from ever coming out to market. There is a small chance that they could wait to file suit after the game has made money but I am doubting this will happen.

There is no way that Titanfall is stolen property from Activision because it would be very stupid of Vince and West to have develop a game at one studio and also under contract then take that same ideal and create the same game at another studio.

If anything, for Vince and West to sue Activision for rights to the Modern Warfare name as they did means the contract between Activision and Vince/West was complicated. Its probably no magic that both COD and Respawn were looking for something different and using the modern setting lets them have more freedom with the tech they provide within the game. Yes there was probably going to have certain things that are similar because so far most modern type future games have had mechs, and exosuits that allow you to perform some type of super action.