
Activision has explained why it decided to go ahead with the high-profile sacking of Infinity Ward's bosses.

Chance Glasco, one of the co-founders of Infinity Ward and creators of the Call of Duty franchise, has claimed that Activision once pressured the studio to include an invasion of Israel by Iran.

Former CEO describes lawsuit filed by Swedish pension fund as a "collateral attack" on Activision Blizzard.
Kotick Made $155 million from MS in the buyout, the little b*tch needs to stop whining. Thanks to this Microslop deal and massive industry consolidation thousands upon thousands of devs and other workers lost their livelihoods. This greedy piggie pervert needs shut up and f-off.

Windows Central: "The money may keep rolling in, but Microsoft is the custodian of one of the biggest selling video game series in history. If something doesn't change, I fear we'll reach a breaking point and irreparable damage will have been done."
In my view, they should probably merge MP with Warzone and essentially make it free to play like Halo Infinite. The campaign/zombies mode can be $30 yearly DLC. I know this would be insanity as most COD players essentially pay the full price of the game simply for the MP. However-with a shrinking player base they may have to consider it. Making it free would bring in a ton of players.
To late MW3 should have been a lesson but here we are two years later with a steaming pile a shite called blops7
Nothing lasts forever, eventually something will come along to make people forget about COD
Call of Duty was riding the revenue horse and charts for ~20 years. Whether undeserved or deserved.
But I endorse everyone to remind you that Microsoft could have decided differently when they took it over.
The money was certainly there, and they could have taken their time revamping the franchise:
Current-gen tech, manageable microtransactions, not imitating Fortnite and returning to core values of the franchise's origin.
They didn't.
Let's see next year. Hopefully without the then 13 years old PS4 and One hardware.
Does anybody really know how they breach the contract?
It really doesn't matter why they fired the two guys. For the majority of the gaming public, it was all about the money and the only way they'd prove otherwise to the gaming community is if they showed us a long history of discussions into these guys actually trying to break their contract with Activision.
As it is, this came out of nowhere and the biggest losers here are Activision and the gamers for losing the people who made the best selling CoD games.
Granted, this could have been an excuse. Regardless though, it was probably one of the hardest decisions the company has ever made. Kudos to standing up for what they believe in, if in fact they are telling the truth.
So basically, the two IW bosses breached their contract? If that's true then they have to pay the consequences I guess. I'm not sure if I believe it but it could be true. I mean MW2 was a great commercial success so unless they did something wrong - then there is no need to fire them.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
I hate mega-corporations, but I have to side with Acti on this one. This is not the first time Zampala and West felt they were bigger than the industry.