Kotick: Easy decision to fire Infinity Ward devs

This is a industry news saga- And everyone needs to read up on it. While there are two sides to every story the above comment was either mad rantings or a ceo trying to keep his job, anyway there is alot to this but below is my simplified version- I encourage anyone interested in the gaming industry to read up on it. 

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You hire a guy to paint a picture of a boat to sell to others with an agreement to share profits a certain way.  You pay him up front. The artist creates all these new tools, devices, brush techniques, lighting, and ways of doing things to make the portrait of a boat a huge seller. Billion dollar seller. 

Okay you now do not want to share the profits as agreed, making a very unhappy artist. Your now afraid they may paint something else for another guy who will then make a ton of money.  So you engineer a firing in hopes of keeping all the money - but what is worse is

You claim that the artists way of creating the painting is now your property. Everything from brush strokes, lighting, angles - anything the artist did to make that painting so great is now your property and he can not use them on anything he wants to paint in the future.

That is what Activision CEO Kotick tried to do. Who lost big time.

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Hero to company industry

Goat to creative developers 

Anyone who says EA is worse than Activision, could you do us and your mothers a favor and kill your self's. Your really not worth the Oxygen you take from te rest of us. No company on this planet is worse than activision, and Kotick. Only morons and idiots actually think CoD is a worth while game anymore. Thats ok just keep buying the trash and ruining the industry you will regret it sooner or later. And then maybe youll be depressed enough to pull the trigger.

Is that a wig?

It seems Robert Kotick is on a roll!  Under his lead, Activision just might turn into another EA....just might.

"Keep On Gaming, Gamers." -- Papa Arch Deluxe

Anyone on this site defending this guy is a literal moron. Remember, he's the dude who WOULD raise game prices past $60 if he could. He literally admitted that his business strategy is just pumping out game after game until people get sick of it then they drop the franchise. Tony Hawk? Guitar Hero? Jesus man, seeing this fuckface smile makes me want to slap his consumer disrespecting ass.

blemish the franchise hahaha wow, that really gave me a good laugh. Lets all look forward to the 6th CoD game still running on the same old, tired ass engine next year.

lol a movie would blemish, the call of duty franchise, you already did that releasing 1-2 COD games a year.

God that pic @_@

I can just see it in a red/black two tone with "K O T I C K" and some release date printed at the bottom.

(Well, I spose some photoshop for vampire teeth)

Did he forget about the e-mails that revealed he had no plans on paying Vince and Jason the money that was promised to them by firing them?  

Im all for freedom of speech but in Kotick's case it needs to be revoked. I will embrace the day he no longer is the head of Activision.

Kotick, don't you have enough money to buy yourself a hot wife with enough fashion sense to tell you to grow some side-burns cuz your hair looks like a powdered wig dyed brown.Just saying... ; ) 

I think people forget that Kotick has a business to run.  He cares more for money than games/gamers? True. But he is not there for games, he's there to make money from them.  With as much as we know now, it seems obvious that neither side has done only good.  It's hard for people to look at this situation without bias, but it makes you look so immature when you don't consider what the entire situation is...business. To end, That's Business. Things like this happen in every field.

Obviously, Kotick is going to call them the bad guys. The guy is slime and I can't stand him. He has no respect for the people he employs nor does he respect his consumers. I can only hope something happens that would cause him to have to step down from his position and let someone else be in charge that actually gives a damn.

He's a business man pure and simple has no love for games.

I hope one day that Kotaku releases an article on what exactly went down with these guys.

You either side with the developers and believe they were working for a Scrooge who was going to fire them anyways regardless just to save money. Or you side with this guy and believe that Zampella and West were planning a coup d'etat. Either way to say that either side were blameless is a lie. When you deal with hundreds of millions a lot of things get eschewed. 

Out of all the Game to Movie adaptations I think Call of Duty would be the easiest hands down. For whatever reason all of the games I can think of that attempted or have been rumored to have a movie adaptation were set in Sci-Fi lore and required what I assume to be more complicated special effects and tricks. It's not like Doom, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Halo, Gears of War, or Dragon Ball Z where they need a lot of imagination to atone for things such as monsters and character designs that only work in Video Games, Cartoons etc. Granted I'm sure the adaptation would still be a challenge. I just don't think a Call of Duty movie would be AS risky and demanding as the aforementioned. 

I would love to see the response of releasing a Call of Duty movie. I wonder how well it'd sell on opening night. Unlike Kotick, I can't imagine why making a CoD movie would "Blemish" the franchise. This is the only video game franchise so far (that I've heard of) where a film adaptation just seems so doable and right! If anything I believe releasing a movie would make the franchise even more legendary, regardless of it's quality. Imagine seeing Soap, Price, Ghost, Sandman all in an actual movie! I mean it just feels so right to me. I don't even play CoD. 

I am laughing at all the dumbass children posting on this thread. They love to bash this guy because they think it makes them look superior somehow. In truth, they are zitty little turds sitting in their mothers basement casting dispersions on a very rich, smart and successful man.

He's worried about blemishing the franchise after releasing the call of duty for the PS Vita.... Get real

I LLLLLLLLLLLLOVE this quote!!! ready? .... "blemish the franchise" phwaa... phwwaaa... WAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA

"You find out that your employees stand to make millions on royalties due to the contract we gave them and will retain the rights of the Modern Warfare franchise, then the sales explode more than your estimates - what do you do? You spy on them to find some dirt and when you can't, you invent a story about them seeking employment with a competitor and fire them. You then withhold any royalty payments to the rest of the employees unless they stay with Infinity Ward since 'we can only pay you if you work here', even if the work they would have gotten paid for is already done."

There, I fixed your quote there Kotick. 

Although the image was never very clear, this guy's face and hair remind me of Super Mario's Toad.

It amazes me that someone so out of touch could be in charge of such a large organization (and make millions doing it).  That being said, the math doesn't lie.  Let me show you:

Power = Work / Time  (known equation, whether it's mechanical or electrical power)

If Knowledge is Power and Time is Money, the equation becomes:

Knowledge = Work / Money

Solve for Money:

Money = Work / Knowledge

As Knowledge goes to zero, money goes to infinite.

you know how there are just those faces where looking at them just rubs you the wrong way and you  want to punch it....this guy is one of them for me.

You don't need to make a movie, just show a playthrough of the game in theaters. It'd be the same thing except it wouldn't annoy you with tiny gameplay bits every now and then...

Activision cannot survive without COD, i have a feeling that Mark Lamia and David Vonderharr might also abandon ship and we might even see Treyarch disappear soon...

Could he please just jump off a cliff?

I thought he looked like the slimy boss from the movie Moneyball.  Then I looked it up.  He IS the weaselly boss from Moneyball http://kotaku.com/5844105/in-moneyball-activisions-bobby-kotick-plays-a-familiar-role 

Blem-ish (verb:used with object) - to destroy or diminish the perfection of: As Activision not wanting to "blemish" their COD brand with a movie.

I-ro-ny (noun) - the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: As Activision is worried that a movie might blemish the perfection that is COD.

haha - Suck it Alanis Morissette