Infinity Ward staying open despite 35 defections

Well if they dont put over power guns and kill streaks like in Mw2 and if they listend to the community they would be good... You know what would make cod better ? A brand new game engine :)

As long as these next games are good....

IW IS BACK.. NO NO NOO I HATE THEMMMMMMMMMMM. THERE THE WORSTTTTTTT

I pray that Modern Warfare 3 is good, with all that has happened.

Cant wait for modern warfare 3 2011 and black ops 2 2012 and COD: back to the future 2013.

@emperiox "this cadet's logic doesnt seems sound"

EA and Activision are all the same. its just poor Developers who get stuck between Publishers from time to time!!

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KOTICK YOU EVIL M*TH*RF*CK*R I HOPE YOU BURN IN HELL!!!

Modern Warfare was such a great idea, now it's been ruined by the typical corporate bullsh**

hhh...idk if what kind of Call of Duty can be produce by what's left from Infinity Ward. I hope MW3 won't be beat to death by Respawn and EA's new IP

Quality.... pfff. Just money, that's how it works. I hope next CoD fails so they learn their lesson.

Well that choice seems to be biting Activision in the ass...

I hope Respawn win - Activision has really overused the CoD brand. They should leave it alone now, after releasing way too many titles... bring on the new title. I'll be looking forward to it.

Dont care Halo Reach is coming out I hope respanw comes out with a better game.

whens the next COD with zombies coming out?

The publisher said Infinity Ward "remains an important studio," and emphasized that it will provide the resources, people, and talent needed "to maintain the highest level of content quality." Thats a bunch of bull. if they wanted highest level of content quality, they would have allowed IW to have as much time as they needed to release the game. Instead, they pushed it through forcing them to cut down certain aspects that IW wanted to put in.

I used to love IW as a gaming company, but now i hate them for making such a terrible game in MW2.

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"The executive said he personally had considered the pair to be his friends, and their actions had compromised that friendship." BS XD

and this game may be halted in production soon if West and Zampella win the lawsuit. and most likey MW3 would be postponed indefinitely if the pair have control over their franchise again, due to the new franchise they would like to start.

Just another immature and totally expected move by Activision. They only reason they are keeping it open is becasue they won't admit defeat to West, Zampella and the other IW defectors. Who knew supposed 'adults' could be so childish.

Activision still owns the studio huh? And the MW2 code? Then I assume the new MW3 will be equal to MW2 atleast. It also depends on which people who left, if all the ingenious people (senior code monkeys) are still there it could still be a good game coming. Just saying. No particular love for Activision though :)

It would be tragic if they shut up shop.

With 35 departures Modern Warfare 3 and anything else that comes out of this studio will be rubbish. Activision, fail doesn't even begin to begin to cut it.

@akiwak MW1 and MW2 were just okay games anyway, 4 hour campaigns and twitch online multiplayer. Sure it was a bit of fun, but nothing more than who-sees-who-first.

The up side: Yes they are going to release MW3!!! The down side: It will significantly go down in quality. The next game released will be just an ok game but not be nearly as good as the previous releases.....

I'm not going to buy it either way, but I will laugh my ass off if this turns out to be the best Modern Warfare yet. How embarrassed would West and Zampella be?

its funny how bobby kotick tries to make the whole situation OK, like he didn't just lose 35 members of infinity ward and most have joined Vince and Jason at Respawn. OK if i work somewhere and the boss doesn't pay me and i don't get my pay check on time and i keep getting excuses about when I'll get it you better believe I'll be looking else where for a new job you kidding me, kotick wants to keep all royalties for him self, douche bag.

@dynamo11 Last I checked EA wasn't beating anyone, Especially when it comes to making money... maybe if losing money was the goal.

@thenavman Naah, simply an issue of burn out with most of them, the closure was indeed based on it supposedly not meeting the standards of Vivendi. Then again, Vivendi wasn't exactly known as a good judge of what works and what doesn't anyway. Least not in my book anyway. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard_North for more.

Tune in next time, when Activision counter-counter sues Respawn, Bungie discovers that his marriage with activision isn't going as planned and Infinity ward gets into another fight with Activision. this might be the first soap I sort of like...

@ Valas_Azuviir I heard Blizzard North had started working on diablo3 and Blizzard hated what they had made so they fired most of them.

@clydeknightwind I thought they had signed the rights over to Activision. For once in my life I hope i'm wrong lmao

@clydeknightwind Yeah exactly, that's what we're all hoping for I think!

HAHAHA CoD MW3? It's not gonna happen from activision if they lose the suit. West and Zampella have the rights to the intellectual property in the contract last i heard and that would go them in the case of a win from the prosecution.

another dlc for mw2, in my opinion the first dlc wasnt really worth getting especially for the price of $15 they need to add old weapons from cod4 or more maps in the package, maybe that'll make it worth buying

EA beating Activi$ion with both BBC2 and the new Medal of Honour that looks amazing!

@robtheguru Agreed, and it's ironic that the creators of Modern Warfare also founded the Medal of Honor series. Activision will live to regret their decisions I think.

I'll give my hope that IW will make Modern Warfare 3 the best while Activision is being for nice then greedy (odds of that are 1 out of 9999999999) anyway, hope of the map pack will be more better. I'm kinda surprise that Treyarch is not affected by this. What's up with that

To be honest, Activision are just a bunch of money grabbing thugs. Asking people to pay £10 for 5 maps, 2 of which are just taken from the original MW, is absolutely rediculous. I hope MW3 bombs and it's a definite possibility considering how amazing the new Medal of Honor looks.

I have all the hope for Respawn Entertainment, but I'm still somewhat interested to see how Modern Warfare 3 is going to work out and if it bombs well at least I still have Battlefield: BC 2.

Shame on them,,,for they ruined the victory they have achieved in Modern Warfare 2

its all about Respawn Entertainment now the best of IF have joined it

Come on guys IW won't close if Activision don't say so because they have money. they are releasing Sta Craft 2 and another Call of Duty game not to mention World of Warcraft, I'm sure they have money to burn. My point is that I've seen so many hate comments here and IGN and I'm just sick of people telling Activision to go f@k themselves. Honestly, I don't think this Kotik is a nice guy but even if he isn't, he won't give a rats behind what people think in Gamespot it just makes people sound immature. I respect the comments posted here and though but I just would like to comment on all the profanity against them (Activision). These are public forums and some people read through them, I just don;t see the point why people have to swear to get their opinions heard.

The 2nd Map Pack should have more Maps and it should be for FREE this time!! $15 is way too much for only 5 new Maps, sry i mean 3! I rather play Bad Company 2 >> Free Maps!

the second map pack better be good, stimulus was a let down. please dont give us unchanged old maps again for chrissake. we all have our copy of cod4, we can play them for free whenever we want. they should at least change them up a little (newly opened areas, weather conditions, time of day etc..). Bailout is the only good new map in the pack and it aint worth £11 on its own. the treyarch map packs were quality.

I couldn't see them close infinity ward because of brand recognition. the general public associates that name with pretty much all the GOOD call of duty releases (especially the modern warfare series) and to dissolve it now seems like another bad decision in a long line of bad decisions. empty seats can be filled, and i'm sure it's simpler to do that than to close up shop and reassign (or fire) the remaining team. Kotick calling those people his "friends" is pretty funny though. i didn't think satan had friends.

So what happens when you do pay your hard working developer studio? This stuff happens. I'm shocked in my opinion that Infinity Ward will stay open after this period of struggle for Activision.

@ theslimdavylp Why? Burn out most likely, it's one reason why Blizzard switches out IPs every now and then, to keep things fresh. Also the reason why the Blizzard North guys bolted, they'd already done two Diablo's and wanted to do something else for a change, they were told no, so they resigned.