Rumor: Security Locks Down Infinity Ward, Ousts Studio Head *UPDATE*
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I'm playing devil's advocate in this, simply due to the fact that I loath,despise, and hate Infinity Ward for turning a game that I used to play religiously into a puke pile that I play to kill time.
If anythings anything, Modern Warfare 2 could have been easily be done by modders and hackers, and would have been a hell of a lot more interesting. In fact, they perverted this whole genre from war game to action-movie game. You go from a practically nameless private, to 7 different characters, all dying in some horrible happening or another.
And here's my take on the whole WWII-Overplayed scenario. We were fighting legitimate evil in that, actual forces that sought to take the minds of the people. Who the hell are we fighting in this? Sure, the first one had an okay villain,sort of realistic,
I'm getting tired so to summarize my point, They're getting what's coming to them.
If anythings anything, Modern Warfare 2 could have been easily be done by modders and hackers, and would have been a hell of a lot more interesting. In fact, they perverted this whole genre from war game to action-movie game. You go from a practically nameless private, to 7 different characters, all dying in some horrible happening or another.
And here's my take on the whole WWII-Overplayed scenario. We were fighting legitimate evil in that, actual forces that sought to take the minds of the people. Who the hell are we fighting in this? Sure, the first one had an okay villain,sort of realistic,
but now we're fighting a arms dealer and a general who's disgruntled because he's not capturing the troop power he had? What the hell? I mean Hitler was straight fucked-up in the head, but the general has no reason to kill whatever main character you play as in that "scene".(If I remember correctly, he was one of Soap's men, because I remember railing on the names of his allies.)How would the victory over a practically unknown Russian man boost enlistment? If you promised respawns in the army, you will get more psychopaths that you could ever need to fill a front-line with! Sociopaths, nihilists, and maniacs all set to kill as many poor foreigners a American general could want, but no one will care if you kill a random Russian man, and that's if you kill this random arms dealer. I must say I have no clue for his existence other than to fill a plot hole.
I'm getting tired so to summarize my point, They're getting what's coming to them.
wouldn't surprise me and it does sound like something a big corperation would doEcksTeaSea said:
Meanwhile, Brutal Legend creator Tim Schafer (who, as you may recall, had his own showdown of sorts with Activision) chimed in via Twitter: "Getting mad at Activision for this kind of thing is like getting mad at an ape for throwing feces. It's just how the beast communicates."
Great quote here...
Great quote here...
this is not entirely true, only the core people of IW have a contract called "memorandum of understanding" - that's the contract that was always being referred to , this is the contract that Activision agreed to when they bought IW, this was how IW got royalties , a normal wholly owned studio doesn't get royalties
The studio heads worked under a contract, Activision wanted to get rid of those people so they don't need to pay ... they don't need to pay ANYTHING in bonus ... tens of millions in bonus ... about 150million for CODMW2.
This is not a standard of any kind , these aren't bonuses a company gives to employees for "good behavior" and working ethics as well as other factors, this is something else, it's royalties and this differs, because it's actual percent of sales developer PERSONALLY gets into his hands (studio heads decide how much money they going to share with other seniors in various departments)