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Infinity Ward Heads Have Left the Building

What in the world is going on at Infinity Ward HQ? Yesterday we heard reports that the place had been raided by the feds (or security guards). Now, Activision has confirmed that the heads of Infinity Ward are no longer with the company.

Jason West and Vince Zampella have left, or more likely been booted for unknown reasons, and for the time being have been replaced by Activision's publishing chief technology officer Steve Pearce and head of production Steve Ackrich.

Activision confirmed the personnel change this morning; however, they did not give us any clear details on why the changes had to take place under such suspicious circumstances.

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Aeschylus
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sounds like something from a hollywood movie... *waits for the new Infinity Ward series to be announced*
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KBExP
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*facepalm*
Well there goes a great developing company. Well maybe not, the only thing good they created was cod4. Mw2 is probably the reason.
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robo3687
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one story about this i saw was that relations between the two companies were tense, and that activision was pressuring IW in an effort to 'resist change'....

my guess is IW wanted to break out of their mould and create something other than a call of duty game....or even break from activision altogether....

activision really **** me...
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MONEY ??????????
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KBExP said: *facepalm*
Well there goes a great developing company. Well maybe not, the only thing good they created was cod4. Mw2 is probably the reason.


MW2? So you're saying the reason feds/security guards raided the HQ was because of MW2? What the hell?
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pdark007
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Well COD1 and 2 were also awesome and im going to stick up for MW2 cause i think it rocks (multiplayer anyway).as for why they are raied who knows? too much weapons info in the games making the feds think they are supplying the enemy with info?
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bylim5
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Goodbye IW, my love.

But then again, just because the heads of IW have left doesnt mean the rest of the staff have. It takes more people to make a game, y'know.
mat
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this is just activision cleaning house,but money is probably what it over
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LOL Infinity ward with no head....

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might have something to do with this
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i blame Steve & Steve FOR this!
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i'm sure they will find some one in house at iW to replace them.. maybe someone who cant create a coherent single player story.
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marvelxmen said: i'm sure they will find some one in house at iW to replace them.. maybe someone who cant create a coherent single player story.


Lol a decent length SP would be good.
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oh sheet... Next CoD after Treyarch's will be action-adventure genre. nuuu
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bylim5 said: oh sheet... Next CoD after Treyarch's will be action-adventure genre. nuuu


It will also be made but another Developer can't remember the name at the moment
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Vinzor said:

KBExP said: *facepalm*
Well there goes a great developing company. Well maybe not, the only thing good they created was cod4. Mw2 is probably the reason.


MW2? So you're saying the reason feds/security guards raided the HQ was because of MW2? What the hell?


It has been said that IW received no royalties for mw2...If i was the lead dev of a massive game making millions...Id punch every member of activision in the face for not giving me royalties....
Lets not forget that IW was created when a huge amount of people left EA. Now lets hope both Jason West and Vince Zampella make a new game developer that is free from any corruption (i.e EA,activision)
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RatedY2J said:

bylim5 said: oh sheet... Next CoD after Treyarch's will be action-adventure genre. nuuu


It will also be made but another Developer can't remember the name at the moment


*head explodes*
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LMA0
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meh IW is ghey just a bunch of gaming nerds complaining to activision. (note: sum ppl will find this post offensive )
bylim5
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KBExP said:

Vinzor said:

KBExP said: *facepalm*
Well there goes a great developing company. Well maybe not, the only thing good they created was cod4. Mw2 is probably the reason.


MW2? So you're saying the reason feds/security guards raided the HQ was because of MW2? What the hell?


It has been said that IW received no royalties for mw2...If i was the lead dev of a massive game making millions...Id punch every member of activision in the face for not giving me royalties....




And also apparently, they were looking at other publishers outside Activision which could explain breach of contract? This was probably a reponse of IW getting zilch for their efforts and being blocked in creating new IP instead of pursuing 100% of their time to CoD all the time.

Activision is scum. It's CEO Bobby Kotick is also scum.
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Activision & EA can kiss my butt. Money hungry SOB's
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RatedY2J said:

bylim5 said: oh sheet... Next CoD after Treyarch's will be action-adventure genre. nuuu


It will also be made but another Developer can't remember the name at the moment



well, those unopened prestige editions will definitely be worth something decent then, in a while. hold on to em people.

but i think im only talking to s0ny here...
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