Insider: Infinity Ward Dead and Will Continue to Crumble
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I sincerely hope they can, although for Zampella it would be striking gold a third time seeing as the last game he worked on before joining Infinity Ward was Allied Assualt.TsunamiWombat said:
I still find the parallels between this and the (less acrimonious) folding of 2015inc over Medal of Honor vaguely hilarious.
It's as if Kotick and Riccitiello are playing pong with their most valuable employees, thwock you have him for five years, thwock, no you have him back. I really hope Riccitiello has learned from the mistakes he made last time that Kotick has repeated and then some.
The problem is, regular people don't even know about any of this, or any gaming politics, so they're only going to know about a decline in quality (if they even notice, which is unlikely), once they've bought the game at which point the sale and damage is already done, doesn't matter if a few regular people dislike it after they buy it, Activision will still be laughing all the way to the bank.
Mid to long-term Activision has all it needs to come out on top. Sure it lost some amazing talent and screwed up the morale in the studio. But given the economic circumstances I'm willing to bet there's plenty of available game designer talent out there, and the product most important to them (MW series) is hardly reliant on excessive innovation, it's a military version of FIFA in this regard.
This is probably the saddest part of the whole debacle. It's like watching Evil Corporation Pty. Ltd. buy out the rights to not only Leonardo da Vinci's paintings, but da Vinci himself, and then start churning out new works, painted by some random painter but bearing da Vinci's signature. People don't actually care who made the painting, all they do is look at the signature and open their wallets.elvor0 said:
...did that analogy make sense? Anyway, I'm not really big on the whole FPS scene, so MW isn't really my thing, but I'll be interested to see what Respawn Entertainment comes up with, whether it'll follow an entirely different tangent in terms of gameplay, or if they'll make something to compete directly with anything IW/Activision makes.
Kind of off-topic, sorry, but I just wanted to say that I love your avatar. I could sit here all day watching that hand...Aurora219 said:
Amen, but then again Treyach is still going strong, so the Call of Duty series will still sell. Roll on CoD 7 then!!Jiraiya72 said:
Hopefully, West and Zampella will get the rights to MW3. If that happens, I think a whole lot of people will leave IW for Respawn because they want to finish what they started. Considering the way MW2 ended, I'm sure the people at IW are anxious to end the trilogy (please be a trilogy)
