Activision Playing Tough With Infinity Ward Creators

seems like kotick is still butthurt after they left (or got fired, idk)
Activision just keeps pressing charges and delaying cases, like a child who won't go to bed since the parents took away their most belowed toy, and won't give it back.
Activision are just being assholes at this point, I mean come on

Not that I expected anything less from Mr. Kotick and Activision, but seriously? This is just horrible. Hopefully Respawn can successfully fight this extension and such because this is just wrong. The thing that pisses me off more though is that people out there continue to support Activision, giving them the money to do things like this.

And it's times like this that whatever respect I have for Activision as a money-making business gets overshadowed by my lack of respect for how bigger dickheads they can be.

Activision enslaves everyoe they work with and whips the hell out of them when they try to escape. Just look at Tony Hawk...poor guy can't stop endorsing shameful skate games

It's things like this that make me lose faith in humanity. Every day I try and make at least one person happy, and this stuff almost makes my actions seem insignificant.

Disgraceful that a company as huge as Activision has to resort to these tactics. I knew they were a money making machine and couldn't care about the games they put out as long as they made the money. But this is just awful.

I hope Respawn has amazing lawyers.

Anyone saying that Respawn will make it is simply kidding themselves. Respawn will die from this, no doubt about it. This is not the first time a company has done this to stop a much smaller rival, and most if not all of those have succeeded. The only way we'll see Respawn make it is if Activision relents, and we all know that wont happen. It's a sad thing to see, Infinity Ward was great when it first started, a really respectable company, in no small part from them.

Christ, way to kick people when they're down.

Activison? More like Assdivision.

Really Activision? Do you have to be such a dick?

geez thats harsh
activisions acting like a spoiled brat

This is a great example of miscommunication. From our point of view, it may look like Activision fired their own peeps, and are now throwing some sort of childish temper-tantrum to keep them from working, but in reality, it can't be further from the truth.

What's probably happening is Activision had no choice but to intervene in Infinity Ward's communication problems with their publishing company, and due to a series of greatly complicated actions on Activision's part, the two lead developers from Infinity Ward left, leading dozens of employees who quit legitimately.

I asked myself why Activision would fire great moneymakers, and the answer is, they wouldn't. And now they're trying to recover them. It's fairly simple, but they will lose regardless.

even if there is a huge boycott amongst the gaming community against Activision that won't drain them of the vast resources they already have. and more so there will always be people out there who are out of the loop (IE casual gamers, older gamers, young gamers) and will continue to buy new and old games from the company because they are simply uninformed. honestly, even if all serious (I use this term loosely) gamers did decide to stop purchasing anything with the Activision logo on it, it probably wouldn't even put a dent in their overall sales across every single demographic out there, whether its kids, adults, teenagers, hardcore gamers, casual gamers, console gamers, computer gamers, etc. really all anyone can do is cross their fingers and hope for the best.

we should stop buying activision products...

The Lesser of two evils..I'll stick to neither: this nasty mess needs to go away