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IW's former heads file suit against Activision

Posted Mar 4, 2010 at 2:43AM EST by Mabie A.

Listed in: PSP, Wii, PS3, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360, PC Gaming Tags: Activision, Infinity Ward

We now have more information as regards to the sudden departure of Infinity Ward heads Vince Zampella and Jason West. After they've been sacked by Activision, they're now gearing up for battle in court, slapping the publisher with a mean lawsuit.

Reports say that Activision was set to pay the duo "substantial royalty payments" but instead fired them even before the date of the said payment arrived.

According to Attorney Robert Schwartz: "Instead of thanking, lauding, or just plain paying Jason and Vince for giving Activision the most successful entertainment product ever offered to the public, last month Activision hired lawyers to conduct a pretextual 'investigatino' into unstated and unsubstantiated charges of 'insubordination' and 'breach of fiduciary duty,' which then became the grounds for their termination on Monday, March 1st."

Both Zampella and West are also seeking the return of their contractual rights to the Modern Warfare brand.

Via [Joystiq]

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Talk about ungrateful assholes, They made you over a billion dollars and put you in the record books, Just give them their cheque like...No instead you make up some BS reason to fire them. I hope activision gets raped in court.

This is a prime example of bosses not appreciating there workers. You can just picture the bosses at Activision like, "Hey this mw2 thing has made us quite a bit of money","I know but now we have to give a small bit of it away","Screw that, we'll just fire those guys, keep the money and hire some new coders","Great idea, Sure those guys are a dime a dozen"

I wonder can studios under contract go on strike. Or would that be a breach of contract.

# ... — TheRockness 2010-03-04 10:04

Thats pretty greasy of them. Activision hax.

# damn — vizard00 2010-03-04 10:43

maybe a blizzard COD for girls , that activision should be down . damn bfbc2 not so good to cache COD4 players . and no game in calandar , realy bad for FPS gamers

# RE: IW's former heads file suit against Activision — Shardnax 2010-03-04 11:53

They are going to lose to Activision, if it even goes to court, unless they have something more substantial than this.

# RE: IW's former heads file suit against Activision — Guest 2010-03-04 13:41

well, they obviously have some evidence to back them up which they are not going to release to the public... dont base the trial on what the public knows, but we are just getting the outer layer.

# RE: IW's former heads file suit against Activision — Guest 2010-03-04 14:04

How hypocritical of activision!!! for those who dont no ther history activision was actually started by a group of programmers who left atari because atari didnt respect there work and only paid them basic salarys, no bonuses, no royalties and no recognition. why do you think Pitfall by activision is actually known as David Cranes Pitfall

# RE: IW's former heads file suit against Activision — Guest 2010-03-04 17:37

Wow. I'm boycotting activision games now. including WoW.

Anyone remember when activision's games sucked?

# COD Hero! — Daistaar 2010-03-04 19:27

I don't know why everyone is so angry... Sure it sucks to see IW go through such drastic and dramatic changes but now Activision gets to open up the platform in a new direction: Here it comes.... Call of Duty Hero!

They'll make a plastic gun peripheral with multi-colored buttons so that you can simulate war! Feel how real it gets as you use the new Sony Arc and CODH plastic gun to lob grenades and fire to pwn people LOL! Just imagine, you line up the perfect headshot and quickly, right on time hit green green blue yellow!!! Nothing beats the REALISM! What's even better is that you'll have a new sequel or expansion every 2 months!!! Call of Duty Hero: Afghanistan coming May '10, CODH Downloadable packs including the skate park from TH: Ride (because you need ways to tie-in your other titles) coming soon!

I just hope the IW retained the rights and wasn't forced to rescind them like Bungie did with Halo to get free from MS. (Here come the thumbs down :D)

# RE: IW's former heads file suit against Activision — But Fukir 2010-03-04 19:41

Interesting.

Why is this filed in the PSP section?

:)

# RE: RE: IW's former heads file suit against Activision — Guest 2010-03-04 21:57

Sony = Developer of PSP

# This is an example of — T-Max Blaze 2010-03-04 21:06

Corrupt, money hungry publishers that want to force developers to compromise their product. AND FOR WHAT?????

# COD — mooneshwar360 2010-03-04 22:28

Wow totally effed int he ass!
=(
man why they gotta fight each other they did such a good job on this game and should be paid equally.

# Activision. You Used to Be Cool — Alex 2010-03-04 22:44

now every programmer just wants to Fuuck you up the ass with a role of quarters

# Activision — Guest 2010-03-05 14:58

why not just pay the guys? it's not like they dont have the money to do so?!

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