Don't know if you guys have been keeping up with the mess that's going on between Infinity Ward and Activision, but apparently 2 high level employees with IW are no longer working there and Activision is suing for insubordination. Not long after this Activision announced it's plans to basically whore out Call of Duty not only to even more developers, but also into additional genres like "action adventure." My guess was that IW didn't want this to happen so Activision told them where they could stick it.
Anyways....a guy in the comments left what I found to be a funny dialogue of what may have been said between IW and Activision.
Is this how it went down?
IW: As the creators of "Call of Duty," we think it should have a two year release cycle to keep things fresh.
Activision: Two a year? Sounds great.
IW: No, no. One game every two years.
Activision: What? No. That's not maximizing profitability and brand awareness!
IW: ......
Activision: Don't look so glum! OK, compromise time: we'll just release an inferior iteration of the series by a mediocre developer every year you don't deliver a completed game to us.
IW: Look, we just don't want you to ruin Call of Duty the way you did Tony Hawk and Guitar Hero.
Activision: Don't worry, I'm sure we'll find new and completely different ways to ruin Call of Duty. How about a third person action adventure title?
IW: What? No. That's not Call of Duty.
Activision: This preliminary box art sure says it is!
IW: Oh look, you put a "Call of Duty" sticker over the words "Uncharted 2." I'm sure Call of Duty: Among Thieves is going to go over really well with the gaming public.
Activsion: If you don't drop the sarcasm we're not even going to bother showing you Call of Duty: Xtreme Beach Volleyball. It's explosively jiggly!
IW: See, this is what we were afraid of. You're not just mishandling "Call of Duty," you're exploiting it... You're abusing it... You're raping it.
Activision: So? We here at Activision believe it would be downright irresponsible to our stock holders if we didn't rape our intellectual property as hard and as often as possible. Market research shows that "Call of Duty" has several years of quality rape left in it and it is critical that we don't miss a single rape-ortunity.
IW: We never thought we'd say this, but we miss EA.
Activision: Oh, boo hoo. Quit your crying or we'll rape you too!
IW: *Leaves*
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yep, pretty much sums it up... CoD = FAIL
ReplyDeleteI was gonna comment but it's not worth it.... So long CoD
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