Infinity Ward: More staff leave

[I am Penguin]

Infinity Ward: More staff leave
Wednesday 14-Apr-2010 8:44 AM Lead designers, programmer and lead artist jump ship following West/Zampella affair
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The Infinity Ward exodus continues this morning, as four more veteran Call of Duty developers are said to have quit.

Lead designers Zied Reike and Steve Fukuda, programmer Rayme Vinson and lead artist Chris Cherubini are confirmed to have left according to "sources close to the studio".

The four join the growing list of names on the Infinity Ward exit door following the West/Zampella incident, which already includes veteran programmer Jon Shirin, lead designer, Todd Alderman and lead software engineer, Francesco Gigliotti.

On Monday fired Infinity Ward heads Jason West and Vince Zampella made the megaton announcement that they've formed a new development studio, Respawn Entertainment in partnership with Activision's biggest rival, EA.

It's unknown whether these departed Infinity Ward employees will be joining them.

What a shame, Activision and their bl@@dy greed! Well deserved. Good for EA. Not good for COD maybe but I hope They will their case against the Activision idiots.

 

[diabolus]

Well i guess where it's bad for the CoD franchise, it might be good for the MoH franchise ...especially considering those IW people actually made MoH

Either way, Activision has turned into the evil publisher of the industry pretty quickly, EA is angelic in comparison.

EDIT: seems they already said they won't work on existing franchises :/

http://www.strategyinformer.com/new...edal-of-honor-or-battlefield-ip-not-an-option

EA: Respawn on Medal of Honor or Battlefield IP "not an option"

Frank Gibeau of EA Games has said Respawn Entertainment, founded by West and Zampella, won't be handling any existing EA IPs.

The ex-Infinity Ward bosses will be "pursuing their own IP." They're an EA Partners client and therefore have "no roles in those franchises."

aah well, hope they come up with something fresh

 

[Slayeruser]

Well i guess where it's bad for the CoD franchise, it might be good for the MoH franchise ...especially considering those IW people actually made MoH

Either way, Activision has turned into the evil publisher of the industry pretty quickly, EA is angelic in comparison.

EDIT: seems they already said they won't work on existing franchises :/

http://www.strategyinformer.com/new...edal-of-honor-or-battlefield-ip-not-an-option



aah well, hope they come up with something fresh

Maybe that is a good thing, now they can come up with a new game, and hopefully is better than any MW will ever be!!!!!!!!

 

[Toxin]

It would have been awesome if they could have "helped" the idiots at Dice with Battlefield. They could have taught them how to release a "finished" game.

 

[xumwun]

Maybe they will go back to Medal Of Honor.


Edit: Or maybe not

 

[EtienneK]

The new Medal of Honor game looks amazing. It's also set in Modern Times. I think this is a brilliant move by EA.

 

[diabolus]

Some more news on this:

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/pachter-infinity-ward-could-lose-20-more

16/04/2010 @ 11:41
Pachter: Infinity Ward could lose 20 more

Infinity Ward could lose another 10 to 20 employees over the next few months, according to predications from Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter.

The exit of two more high level Infinity Ward employees yesterday appears to leave Activision's most successful developer without a single remaining lead designer from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

 

[Syphonx]

oh well, im sure their next franchise will be awesome, COD was starting to get a bit long in the tooth anyway

 

[DenSweep]

Well if Infinity closes their doors, there goes MW2 online capability!! HAHAHAHAHA. Must still be the dumbest MP setup EVER. No IWnet, no MW2 online, cause they have all the servers.

 

[Syphonx]

Well if Infinity closes their doors, there goes MW2 online capability!! HAHAHAHAHA. Must still be the dumbest MP setup EVER. No IWnet, no MW2 online, cause they have all the servers.

ROFL, if that happens i dont think I'll ever stop laughing