Ex-Infinity Ward heads asking for $36 million in suit

I hope this bankrupts Activision.

@osiris So sit here in the forums and cry about it all day. I'll be playing COD. Later.

@wbezuidenhout That's right...I don't care. I am a gamer and I love the product they produce. I can give 2 sh*ts about what they're doing administratively and from a corporate perspective. Like I said, as long as they produce the product I want, I don't care. Why should I care? The price has been the same for me since COD 1. You call me ignorant? I am just a guy with no agendas. I live my life happily and am even thankful there's company's like IW and Activision to provide me with entertainment of any kind.

Dont know whos right or wrong and dont care too much but one thing i find amusing is how the lawsuit states its being brought about because of unbridaled greed, then goes on to demand 36 million for 2 people in damages... lolz

You Go Guys (West and Zampella ) It is their product and Activision is just pi@@ed that they made an agreement like that. They didn't think it would go over that well and now regret offering so much. Well they made their bed and I hope they are forced into keeping it :)

what's wrong with "a culture of 'skepticism, pessimism, and fear'? Sounds like my wife's motto.

I'm with Infinity Ward. If the next Modern Warfare isn't made by them, I WILL refuse to buy it. I want a sequel, but not one made by somebody other than the geniuses who created the Modern Warfare franchise.

F*** you Activision, and thanks for destroying one of the best developers around. I'm not buying MW3 if it's made by anyone else than IW.

@cthuman Have you seen the people leaving IW because of Kotik's strongarm tactics? Modern Warfare is already going somewhere completely different with the top 4 (including the director behind its all-too-awesome multiplayer) leaving.

Activision you really, really s*ck

When the CEO of activision said he did not want game development to be "fun", I guess he really meant it. If those phones and computers were bought by the company, these developers cannot really complain.Although, I am curious as to what these developers did to incur the wrath of Activision. I do hope these developers get control of the CoD franchise, as it is better in their hands than in Activision's.

@cthumann Bobby Kotick loves you, and every other person who thinks like you: "I don't care whether it's any good, I don't care who got screwed to make it, I don't care what they charge for it, I'll buy it because it says MW on the box!"... You are the reason Kotick wants to grind the COD franchise into the ground, and will make tons of money doing it!

As long as Activision and Infinity Ward keep pumping out more Modern Warfare titles, I can give a crap who gets paid for what.

i hope they get there company back and the call of duty brand since activision is a company which deserves no respect

Wow, they SUCK! Never liked Activision anyways. Friggin R-tards soo damn greedy.

i just googled this bobby kotick guy.....he looks like money-sucking-scum-bag-hate-gamers kinda guy.... pretty decent =p look at one of his quotes at a conference "We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games." u gotta love him loooool *sarcasm*

I don't care who is in the right, I just hope it costs Activision a lot of bread. Is this message going to get "deleted" too? Am I "insulting a user"? I only ask because the last time I took a verbal swing at Activision my acount got bumped all the way back to level 19, and I got a three day suspension. *******.

@ jer_1 I agree with you man Activision is run by evil, heartless money loving scum bags. I hope IW wins. Now that would make me happy.^_^ I wonder how badly they treat there employees. A wise man once told me not to judge a man based on how he treats his equals but on how he treats his inferiors.

all those two knuckle heads need to do to get back at Activision is get most of the key Infinity Ward developers to quit and start up a new Company and make a spiritual sequel to CoDMW2 and get EA to publish it.

djtim, I imagine it was Activision's idea but both parties are to blame as far as I'm concerned. They both had their names on the box. But don't mind me, I'm just bitter and vindictive.

Oh, how I'd love to see these guys win the suit and offer a job to every person on their original dev team that's currently employed by Activision.

@ VR_Verdugo You seriously think it was the developers choice to screw over the PC platform?!

I consider 36 mill to be decent figure considering they made two very big games that gave ATVI so much more in return. Theres alway's two sides to each story so I'm not gonna pick a side yet. OTOH... I do hope that they keep the control for MW series. BTW if anyone cares, stocks for ATVI have slumped today.

so they make billions and then everything goes to crap wow that is stupid

well i got my money's worth with MW2. im done buying anything from Activision or Infinity ward. all this is nothing more than Bobby Kotick trying to be stupid. they deserve all the problems that they have after screwing the PC community, the enormous amount of glitching at MW2, and so on.

I have no love for Activision but we're only getting one side of the story here. I'm sure more details will emerge. Also, I must confess some degree of satisfaction at these IW guys getting screwed over like the PC community was screwed over with MW2. Still that's no excuse for greed or cheating anyone out of their fair share.

I'm glad these guys are going after Activision. Activision needs to remember back when they were a development house making games for the Atari 2600. Activision has gotten too big, they have grown fat and greedy from sucking on the Blizzard World of Warcraft Cash flow. THey need to remember gamers and the people who make them their money.

Buying used is not a boycott of Activision. Someone must still patronize them in order for there to be used games to buy. If you wish to protest this sort of unethical action by not doing business with Activision you must not buy any Activision products new or used.

Buying used activision games from now on, what scum they are to pull a stunt like this. If i was Infinity Ward personel, id site Activision breaching safe work condition protocals and leave them. Any major publisher would give their right nut for a developer like Infinity Ward. I hope West and Zampella win this suit HARD!

Rorshach120, the 36 million is for 'damages' they are also suing to be paid and continue to be paid the royalties owed them on the game as well as to keep the creative control they've been given.

These guys are owed royalties on a billion dollar grossing game. They are owed control of a game franchise with a billion dollar grossing installment.

Activision is, quite simply, not honoring their agreement.

Activision really are scum i hope west and zampella win this suit and continue making good games away from those b@stards

Wow, activision is ran by some true scumbags. Don't count on me buying an Activision game again...

Gamers, buy your Activision games used, I'd rather have a lesser evil like Gamestop have my money.

IW should become their own company if they win this, hopefully they can buy back the Call of Duty IP. Sounds like Activision treats its employees like Guantanamo Bay detainees.

They win. They get $36mil. They start new company. More awesome games. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if they avoided using a publisher by just going the semi-Valve route of all online downloads i.e. PSN, Xbox Live, steam, etc.

Activision's actions, if it is true, proves that the gaming industry is becoming increasingly corrupt. I hope those two wins.

gamespot should put this new at homepage, every gamer should know and make a stand to these big corporations that think they can do whatever they want, while the real creative people gets F***K. Is not about if you like COD anymore. I wont buy any COD from activision, and that is if I buy any activision game at all....

West and zampella! we gamers stand by you!. I really hope they win.. I wont buy any activision games anymore, they forgot they were game industry and became the worts scumb of america, the coorporations.

So wot are the chances of MW 3 then

The best possible outcome of this? Bobby Kotick gets fired, Activision goes under, and we never have to hear about them turning good franchises into a milked franchise. IW is an amazing group of people, and deserves to win this.

Well if Activision entered a contract with them to produce a product, and they produced said product, and now Activision is trying to back out, it sounds like a breech of said contract. Nonetheless, whether one hates or loves the CoD series, it has helped bring in plenty of dollars to Activision's coffers. Reading this makes me glad I canceled the pre-order.

oh the problems of mortals .... how they vex me.

@anotherone10 thank you for putting some much needed reason into what was fast becoming one of the most idiotic threads I have ever read. The very idea that people should be paid on quality alone is an immature, adolescent foolishness. Quality is subjective to OPINION and to base a persons royalties on an OPINION is incredibly counter productive to the process of this or any other medium. And for anyone who has enough faith in Activision's creativity to believe they would fire someone for making a mediocre or derivative product really should educate themselves further on the subject. Activision are an absolute disgrace of a company and are the epitome of everything wrong with American capitalism.

This isn't about if people like or dislike the Call Of Duty/ Modern Warfare franchise, its about how Activision is being so unbelivably greedy. Jason West and Vince Zampella are the founders of Infinity Ward & without them Activision wouldn't have racked up some $8 billion from MW2. For Activision to fire them just before they were supposed to get paid is outrageous, even if some people think their game is mediocre, they absolutely deserve to get paid for all their hard work. I hope Activison get sued, they deserve it.

OMG no one cares about IW get over it gamespot, COD 6 sucked on more levels than a 20 cent hooker !!!

I suddenly believe in Karma. Hopefully West and Zampella dont get anything out of this.

That being said i'm not sure if IW is as bad as Activision, i mean we have no information on what they have done. Quite frankly i wouldn't be surprised they got fired for blatantly stealing their ideas from so many other games, for example: titles/icons from Street Fighter IV

It took everyone long enough to realise how greedy Activision really is, even though they were charging £5 extra RRP higher than any other game which has ever been put out and they are milking Starcraft 2 buy charging a full game price for each of the three campaigns. It is a total rip off and no one seemed to realise that, they are just con artists.

alot of comments condemning activision.... lets not forget that IW forgot where they came from when MW2 was made, if it was made for console only, fine, but supposedly it was made for pc also in which case MP failed big time. reap what you sow. Battlefield BC2 has pretty much put MW2 into the dirt anyways. Thankyou DICE!!

my solution to all problems in activision and infinity ward : sack Bobby Koticks period.