The increasingly bitter war between mega videogame companies Activision and Electronic Arts levelled up this week when the Call of Duty publisher attempted to drag its chief rival into its countersuit against ex-Infinity Ward stars Vince Zampella and Jason West.
But could Activision also block Zampella and West's new studio, Respawn Entertainment, from creating new games for EA?
EA is laying off an unknown number of individuals from across its Battlefield teams, including workers at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios, IGN understands.
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When logic meets EA it generates anti-matter ..... so try not to apply it in any meaningful way. Entropy is what matters in there !!
cue the apologist saying that these are mostly just contractors hired for this specific project bla bla bla
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.
The free-to-play reboot topped 15 million players in under three weeks, but EA now claims it needs to reshape the development team.
The community warned them this would happen but nope they knew better they continued with the live service push the made the art style cartoonish and this is the result
It's always so bizarre when studios announce something super early in development under the suggestion of forming the game to player feedback, and then they push against all feedback heading straight for the cliff while everyone is warning them along the way
damn them no soul mofos...
and the "justice" system that allows the bs
fact is they we're fired denied bonuses while Actiloosers rape the cod franchise with impunity.
All i see is the death throws of a another corporate whale choking on its own tail.
I hope and pray activision lose this case, of all the BS they've pulled this is the lowest of the low. Reminds me of the Brutal Legend fiasco
Edit - Just read the article and found this interesting
"50 or so Infinity Ward employees have commenced a lawsuit against their own current or ex-employer depending on if they've left or not,"
Thats another 50 people suing Activision, they must have some evidence if all of them are willing to sue Acti
and this made me laugh
One of the things Activision complains about and claims for in this litigation is the cost of having to rebuilt Infinity Ward. It wants EA to pay whatever those costs are. We don't know how much they are. I can absolutely see the knock on effect on Modern Warfare overall."
So Acti screws over IW, the staff leave and now they want EA to pay for having to hire new staff? I hope this will get laughed out of court
And still everyone buys blackops i will never buy it. I will never buy another call of duty game what acticrap pulled was total BS.
It wouldn't surprise me in the least bit.
I take an unpopular stance on uhh subject. If Respawn and EA are in the wrong then they should get their just desserts