Like senior Gerstmann, I'll be looking forward to whatever new product will come of all of this. Shake-ups like these sometimes have a greater purpose.

Looks like we'll be seeing Treyarch take over the reigns of the Call of Duty Franchise....

activision: "right, so youll make Russian Civilian Zombies mode and sell it for 10 bucks a pop, its brilliant"
IW: "err...no?"
activision: "no....no? I dont know this word...what does this mean"
IW: "it means we won't make that stupid shit"
activision: "oh silly IW president... do you not know that you are speaking to...GOD"

 Double Fine's Tim Schafer, who had his own troubles with Activision over the release of Brutal Legend, recently commented on Twitter about what's happening between Infinity Ward and Activision.

"Getting mad at Activision for this kind of thing is like getting mad at an ape for throwing feces," said Schafer. "It's just how the beast communicates."

from G4TV

Seems like a perfectly reasonable course of action to me, Jason West didn't do his job to the standards expected by Activision, he was let go. It isn't pleasant (this sort of thing rarely is) and it is indeed unsettling to see relations between IW and Activision are rocky. But Activision owns IW and this is all business, at the end of the day Activision has profits to make and employees to keep in jobs, if certain folks at IW aren't towing the corporate line then they naturally don't need to be apart of the corporation anymore. It's simple business :)

" Seems like a perfectly reasonable course of action to me, Jason West didn't do his job to the standards expected by Activision, he was let go. It isn't pleasant (this sort of thing rarely is) and it is indeed unsettling to see relations between IW and Activision are rocky. But Activision owns IW and this is all business, at the end of the day Activision has profits to make and employees to keep in jobs, if certain folks at IW aren't towing the corporate line then they naturally don't need to be apart of the corporation anymore. It's simple business :) "

" @Hamz said:

" Seems like a perfectly reasonable course of action to me, Jason West didn't do his job to the standards expected by Activision, he was let go. It isn't pleasant (this sort of thing rarely is) and it is indeed unsettling to see relations between IW and Activision are rocky. But Activision owns IW and this is all business, at the end of the day Activision has profits to make and employees to keep in jobs, if certain folks at IW aren't towing the corporate line then they naturally don't need to be apart of the corporation anymore. It's simple business :) "

I just don't see the sense in sending bouncers in and unsettling the whole team. "

" @Marz: I think that was already happening. I even think that's what Infinity Ward wanted... well, maybe after a MW3 (aren't  there some major story loose-ends in MW2?). I think they want to move on to something else. "

Activision is a cool guy.

There are probably reasonable economical and political decisions behind Activision's move, but they botched the whole procedure by sending in bouncers. That was almost a personal attack against the IW staff; what ,did they think they weren't civilized enough to just talk? 

"  Double Fine's Tim Schafer, who had his own troubles with Activision over the release of Brutal Legend, recently commented on Twitter about what's happening between Infinity Ward and Activision."Getting mad at Activision for this kind of thing is like getting mad at an ape for throwing feces," said Schafer. "It's just how the beast communicates."from G4TV "

RIP Jason West.

" @zudthespud: Easy answer is to make sure that no one in the company gets any devious ideas. Keep in mind Activision owns Infinity Ward and that means they have financial interest in the assets created, stored and produced at the IW office. "

well i just assume it's about the third studio that activision thought about bringing in to make more COD games. and IW probably wanted to finally make something else or make modern warfare games themselves. i guess now a lot of those guys will quit, open up a new studio and make a new hit game. just like they did after quitting 2015 (i hope so). 
good luck IW.

First they leave EA now Activisions goes nuts.
 
I guess it is Ubisoft's turn to hire these guys.

" Clearly a publicity stunt to take away some of the media's attention to BC2. ---l--- "

Isn't sending security to escort dismissed (fired) executives out of the premises a company standard? 
 
I still hate activision, but i don't see why people are latching on this.  
 
I hope they go to EA just out of spite.

" @zudthespud: Easy answer is to make sure that no one in the company gets any devious ideas. Keep in mind Activision owns Infinity Ward and that means they have financial interest in the assets created, stored and produced at the IW office. "

Anybody else finding Kotick to be a hypocrit this coming just after his little "I'm no empire but rebel" speech?
 
  http://kotaku.com/5474949/bobby-kotick-warm-and-fuzzy-defends-notorious-no+fun-statements

All good things come to a End.

I want a map pack dammit.

" Isn't sending security to escort dismissed (fired) executives out of the premises a company standard?  I still hate activision, but i don't see why people are latching on this.   I hope they go to EA just out of spite. "

" Isn't sending security to escort dismissed (fired) executives out of the premises a company standard?

" Activision is a cool guy. "

What is going on?

I love how people are making light of others losing their jobs. This is pretty much bullshit.
 
But in some weird way, I'm happy. Maybe they will break off (again) and start a new, better company. It is obvious that Activision's is influencing them in a negative way. 
 
COD was the only franchise that I have bought from Acitivion, If they decide to fire the team that was a main part of why Activision is swimming in money, then there will be massive boycotts. It won't be too effective, since casuals don't know the difference between a good COD game (IW) and a bad one.

I've been digging around on this story since last night, having not really known too much about the relationship between the 2 companies previously. Maybe some of you have seen this already, but here's a story from last year about Activision not wanting IW to do a "modern" shooter in the first place. Sheds some light on the current situation, maybe...
 
 http://www.gamespot.com/news/6232123.html

I wonder what kind of PR dept does activision have that let's them do this kind of stuff. 
 
Maybe they just don't care since many of the COD sales comes from the sheep that buy the game regarding the developer studio that made it.

Regardless of whether this was sound business thinking and a long time coming the way it's being portrayed in the the gaming media is going to be damning. Even more mind boggling is this all comes around a week after Kotick referred to himself as "Being in command of the Death Star" at DICE last week and lamenting letting several profitable endeavors like Rock Band and The Sims slip away. At the very least Infinity Ward has lost their leadership and from the way things sound the natives are restless. Even if Activision isn't hurting for money at the moment losing the majority of Infinity Ward is going to hurt in a major way.
 
On a personal note I've been rooting for EA rather heavily in recent years (yeah, I feel dirty) and the prospect of DICE and former Infinity Ward employees working on Medal of Honor or Battlefield makes me kind of giddy. Still, it's never nice to see someone lose their job.

Kotick is up and about, I must say...
Can't wait to see what the end of this will be! -Maybe next weeks bombcast will include West and Zampella. :D

" @LordAudie said:

" Isn't sending security to escort dismissed (fired) executives out of the premises a company standard?

This ain't Brazil, dude. "

" @atomic_dumpling said:

" @LordAudie said:

" Isn't sending security to escort dismissed (fired) executives out of the premises a company standard?

This ain't Brazil, dude. "

 Whats Brazil have to do with anything? In any tech job (or any office job most likely) they will escort you to make sure you don;t steal anything. "

Maybe someone didn't want  Ghost to die.

So I guess that's their excuse for letting MW2 go to shit lol

Ironic thing is regardless of the quality of the games, people will still buy the annual CoD release for at least the next 2 years. They have enough good will for that franchise.

Wow.......

 
I have no words that can describe the craziness of the past couple days.....

You know what the SEC is serious business and they don't mess around with the allegations that Activision is levying against Infinity Ward. If Activision's evidence is concrete, which it looks like it is, then the heads of Infinity Ward should be fired. However if Activision is using the SEC to threaten and push out the heads of Infity Ward then I hope Bobby Kotick gets burned on the stake.

"

Wow.......

 
I have no words that can describe the craziness of the past couple days.....

"

This is all happening because they failed to spend a few hundred thousand of their millions of profit  from MW2 on dedicated servers to make everyone happy.
 
The end is nigh! :P