Activision Won't Interfere in Infinity Ward Recovery

[Atmos Duality]

Oh, I will be taking their public statement down on paper. In the event that they go back on their word and it has to be presented in court.

 

[Sacman]

Rearrange the following letters: B L L U.

U L B L? did I get it?
OT: Activision says that but can we trust them?

 

[Callate]

He says that the Activision plans to take a hands-off approach with the studio as it gets back to strength, offering support, but not interfering. "We want Infinity Ward to be Infinity Ward," he said. "It's a very specific culture."

...All the king's horses and all the king's men...

 

[Mysnomer]

News flash, IW lost every writer, every four out of five development leads, every four out of five game designers and every three out of four engineers. Most of the people left are artists and animators. That sounds pretty fucking dead to me.

But that's all they need. Remember, Activision doesn't want creativity, it wants profits. And the simplest plan to maximize profit is to reskin old stuff, exactly what you would need those people for. As for plot and mechanics, you can just do focus groups or something to fill in the blanks.

 

[reddfawks]

Happy opposite day, everyone! =P

 

[JourneyThroughHell]

News flash, IW lost every writer, every four out of five development leads, every four out of five game designers and every three out of four engineers. Most of the people left are artists and animators. That sounds pretty fucking dead to me.

But that's all they need. Remember, Activision doesn't want creativity, it wants profits. And the simplest plan to maximize profit is to reskin old stuff, exactly what you would need those people for. As for plot and mechanics, you can just do focus groups or something to fill in the blanks.

I didn't say that wasn't what they needed. I think it's pretty obvious.
It's just that they shouldn't go around saying "We want Infinity Ward to be Infinity Ward", because it's simply not true.

 

[The Youth Counselor]

Of course Infinity Ward will recover, but it will be called Respawn Entertainment.

As for being under Activision, The studio now currently called IW is only so in name only. It's like claiming you have someone still alive because three of the fingers are still reattatchable, while the rest of the body are obliterated.

 

[felixader]

Sligthly off topic:

I find it funny how they always arrange their Screenshots to display some kind of teamplay that doesn't exist in this game.

There may be some form of teamplay but it doesn't look like this up there cause when you play it like this your team will most likely loose cause you are getting rubbled up standing in a actual teampose like that.

 

[Wtfmissile]

Sligthly off topic:

I find it funny how they always arrange their Screenshots to display some kind of teamplay that doesn't exist in this game.

There may be some form of teamplay but it doesn't look like this up there cause when you play it like this your team will most likely loose cause you are getting rubbled up standing in a actual teampose like that.

You know I've always wondered this myself....and they seem to do it for like all the CoDs and other FPS games.....

 

[SelectivelyEvil13]

Yeah Infinity ward will be Infinity Ward under EA now that everyone's pretty much abandoned the current shell under Activision. After everything else they've spewed, they may as well just stay silent because now it seems like they can't dig themselves out of this pit.

So, they are going to come back and create Modern Warfare 3: Revenge of the Even More Unbalanced Multiplayer Kill Streaks?

No, MW3 will be split into two separate costs: $60 for the 4 hour Single player campaign where they nuke the main character after every other mission and Stalin's ghost will lead the undead Russians who fell in MW2 to invade America. You must then subscribe and download the Multiplayer for an extra $60.

 

[poiuppx]

From a realistic perspective, trying to keep this brand alive is foolish. By the time you finish restaffing, training, situating, and then actually get to work on a new game, the value of IW's name will be sharply reduced. Better to asssign your resources to places where you can expect better value. If they're content to run things from the pure business perspective, you need to know when to cut your losses and move your resources where they'll be more valuable.

Then again, I can't pretend to understand Activision's corporate strategy. I'm still trying to figure out what the point of their E3 super concert party was, given it did almost nothing to promote the actual products or studios, and subsequently went mostly ignored by the gaming public.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Yeah Infinity ward will be Infinity Ward under EA now that everyone's pretty much abandoned the current shell under Activision. After everything else they've spewed, they may as well just stay silent because now it seems like they can't dig themselves out of this pit.

So, they are going to come back and create Modern Warfare 3: Revenge of the Even More Unbalanced Multiplayer Kill Streaks?

No, MW3 will be split into two separate costs: $60 for the 4 hour Single player campaign where they nuke the main character after every other mission and Stalin's ghost will lead the undead Russians who fell in MW2 to invade America. You must then subscribe and download the Multiplayer for an extra $60.

So, $60 for multiplayer, eh? Guess that is 4 maps and you'll have to pay $15 more for every individual CoD4/MW2 remake they port over, too? At least I know I'll get the 'insta-win' perk after I get a 5 kill streak. Woo!

 

[Theron Julius]

The Star Wars analogy is getting more and more plausible.

 

[Starke]

Rearrange the following letters: B L L U.

ulbl?
anyway is it just me or is activision the most evil company in the world.

Nah, not even close, go look up a documentary called Flow.

Though... Activision is owned by Vivendi, aren't they?

 

[z3rostr1fe]

Can someone put an "O RLY" owl to this?

 

[HyenaThePirate]

Rebuild "WHAT" exactly? Anybody who was essential in the creative process behind their two successful titles in the Call of Duty Franchise is LONG gone, jumped ship and moved on. The only people left are either those who were just sheep following mindless instructions, and the people who came on board far too late to have really developed any true chemistry within the dev group.

So essentially they are going to let a bunch of lackluster run of the mill programmers and worker bees try to be the creative geniuses behind... what exactly? What project are they working on? And who is activision trying to impress with this info other than the investors that have probably begun to realize how the loss of the genius behind Infinity Ward leaves them with a lame duck developer at best, a poor return on their investment, or an abysmal failure of a game at worse.

So really, Activision has wasted our time with this sort of statement.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Activision doesn't know how to not meddle. They're worse than those kids in Scooby-Doo.

So, they are going to come back and create Modern Warfare 3: Revenge of the Even More Unbalanced Multiplayer Kill Streaks?

Three kills gets you a nuke. Seven kills causes the sun to go nova. Eleven kills triggers the heat-death of the universe.

 

[Meoith]

So they are not going to interfere with Respawn?, thats refreshing to hear .