Activision: Infinity Ward "Remains An Important Studio"
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2There has been much debate over whether or not Infinity Ward will continue after the employee exodus following the Activision fiasco.
Even analysts were split on the issue but now, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has updated everyone on the current state of affairs: Infinity Ward isn't going anywhere. During a post-earnings conference call, when the publisher reported a 33% leap to $1.3 billion in the first quarter, Kotick referenced the loss of key employees at IW but also said it "remains an important studio." As of now, 35 employees have left the team since Activision fired leaders Vince Zampella and Jason West (who have gone on to found Respawn Studios), and Kotick said Activision is "obviously disappointed" and that they wish they "could convince some of these talented people to stay." But because they can't, Kotick and Co. remain committed to IW, and the publisher will continue to provide the necessary "resources, people, and talent" to keep the studio going. As of right now, IW is indeed working on their "next big project," which everyone assumes is the third Modern Warfare installment. Some said that if IW closed, Activision would find another studio to work on MW3 and after the purchase of Bungie...well, people got to talking.
But it appears all of that is unnecessary, as analyst Michael Pachter appears to be in the right on this one: he said Activision would do exactly what they're doing, which is to keep IW staffed for MW3.
5/6/2010 8:50:26 PM John Shepard
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Alienange
Thursday, May 06, 2010 @ 10:57:48 PM
Stranger things have happened.
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GuardianMode
Thursday, May 06, 2010 @ 10:10:47 PM
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Dancemachine55
Saturday, May 08, 2010 @ 8:15:25 AM
If there's no MW3, then there's no $1.2 billion for Activision to go nuts with. IW will never die, but it will never be the same again.
I will always have fond memories of the first modern warfare. COD4 was its name. And it did something beautiful to the FPS genre.
I dumped the old model for the new MW2, and I can tell you buddy, the grass ain't greener on the other side.
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frylock25
Thursday, May 06, 2010 @ 10:18:26 PM
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just sayin it seems that way.
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GuardianMode
Thursday, May 06, 2010 @ 10:39:43 PM
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Qubex
Thursday, May 06, 2010 @ 10:39:59 PM
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Q!
"play.experience.enjoy"
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Alienange
Thursday, May 06, 2010 @ 10:59:48 PM
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shadowpal2
Thursday, May 06, 2010 @ 11:00:32 PM
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Hezzron
Friday, May 07, 2010 @ 12:50:57 AM
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bigrailer19
Friday, May 07, 2010 @ 12:53:38 AM
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johnld
Friday, May 07, 2010 @ 12:59:47 AM
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RebelJD
Friday, May 07, 2010 @ 2:32:09 AM
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This type of crap reminds me of the rap game. When talented acts signed a shitty contract and were forced to replicate their hit single. Some acts chose to say "screw you" and never made music again, not because they didn't want to but because under contract they couldn't...not unless they produced what the label wanted of course. Now the same crap is happening with video games?
Infinity Ward will fall just like other amazing sub-labels fell from under a major record labels wing. Money, money, money.
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Friday, May 07, 2010 @ 3:01:09 AM
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just one thing i really can not see happening, plus their next game is a all new IP so..........
but that i would of said the same thing about bungie signing a deal with moneyvision so i guess anythings possible!
i really dont get that though.
bungie left M$ because they were pushing bungie into working on games they did not want to work on.
they left because M$ was not giving them "freedom" well moneyvision are not exactly known for there heres 100 million bucks go do whatever you want attitude!
leaving M$ and joining moneyvision for "freedom" is like leaving Ferrari and joining ford for job security.
technically there doing the complete opposite, id conciser M$ a sh*t load more lenient and "freedom giving" than moneyvision!
who wants to bet bungies new IP will have 3 sequels and a spin off by this time 2014?
bungie, another developer to sell their soul to the devil :(
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Imagi
Friday, May 07, 2010 @ 5:09:46 AM
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JackC8
Friday, May 07, 2010 @ 6:53:36 AM
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Mr Bitey
Friday, May 07, 2010 @ 10:23:03 AM
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BeezleDrop
Friday, May 07, 2010 @ 11:28:39 AM
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BikerSaint
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Thursday, May 06, 2010 @ 9:51:38 PM
Want to bet that that kotex will keep IW upen & making MW 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10.100,5000 until the rest of IW is so fed up with the MW series that everybody else winds up leaving, and that means even anti-vision's own planted biscuits too!!!