News Ex-Infinity Ward heads sue Activision

Is it just me or is this all a bit similar to the fight comic creators had to go through to get royalties and the rights to charcters they had created?
It's a shame companies don't seem to learn from history. Without creators making product for them, they got nothing. So pay them their damn royalties and be nice!

Oh, and the roads.

 

I'd like to suggest to everyone slamming IW for making a "bad product" that they were told to do so by Activision and the reason it's so bad in the first place was probably because Activision forced them to make them maximum profits which means spending less time on development which means less time on the PC version.

I'm sure IW would've liked to say the release date was "when it's done", but it seems like publishers and their shareholders had different ideas.

 

Public baths.
But sadly, not peace by the look of it...

 

Eye for an eye?

 

I hope these guys get paid, that's shame that team responsible for bringing CoD back to life with Modern Warfare doesn't get paid. But who knows what's behind the scenes where none of us can see.

 

Based on the quotes reported this seems like a pretty open and shut case. However, there must be more too this than that.

 

Or if there isn't, I'm sure they'll find a way to make it look like there is. I'm pretty sure Activision are utter *******s, though there are few companies who aren't, these days (Valve?).

As to the game, I played the COD series right from COD1 up until the demo of MW1, and I was never that much of a fan. Always seemed like porncorn gaming: kinda moreish, but you never felt satisfied. From the reports thus far, it seems that MW2 is more of the same, so until it hits the bargain bin I'll skip it.

 

Documents up on kokatu Really dosen't read as a professional legal document at all no fancy lamguage or such.
Interesting claims such as a six hour interegation by activision without them knowing what they were being charged with and other employees being brought to tears.

Unfortunately unless they can get a few other employees to come forward and testify they've no real hard evidence it seems

 

But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have Activision ever done for us?

 

Greetings!

 

It would seem that if they have a contract saying they'll recieve x royalties ad bank statements showing they recieved burger-all, then its pretty open-shut.

Sounds like greed is at the bottom of this, whether from the IW guys or Activison.
I just hope whoever is being a greedy barsteward gets their cum-uppance.

 

The vomitarium?
A friendly consumer experience?
18-player caps?
IWNet?
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Edit: Viruses??