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West, Zampella object to EA addition in Activision suit.By adding EA to the suit, Activision Blizzard will delay the trial, which will see West & Zampella's legal bills mount up. So they want either 1) EA not added to the suit or 2) the trial date not change if EA is added. Not sure if this is a great message to send to someone who is happy to try and crush you: "We're poor, so let's get this over quickly!".
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It'll be amusing to see the shitstorm that erupts when MW3 ships but Activision loses the lawsuit.
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The lesson the publishers will take from this: Activision should never have left Infinity Ward with enough money to sue.
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Was there a status update on this?
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None that I could see. Appeared to be a drive-by comment.
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"Then there's the double-barreled shotgun from Doom 2 - no-one within your entire household could be of any doubt that it's been fired because it sounds like God slamming a door on his fingers." - Yahtzee Croshaw
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Predictions: Activision keeps COD (which has a bleaker future than when MW2 came out) and avoids any further embarrassing releases of confidential information (Destiny), exposed business practices, and potential reputation backlash, and West / Zampella & Co. likely get compensated for the trouble and can move on with their new projects and relationship with EA.
Not the Making Activision Their Bitch I was hoping for, and going out with a whimper, but it's better than other alternatives.
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COD (which has a bleaker future than when MW2 came out)
wat. Black Ops broke MW2's sales records, then MW3 broke BO's. Anecdotal evidence aside, the COD franchise has not lost any steam and I expect BO2 to continue the trend.
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Forgot about that, especially considering MW3 MP is my current gaming choice and my opinion that the gameplay is still super tight and that those maps are very high quality.
Wishful thinking on my part.
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Great Vanity Fair article on the whole thing. Key points: - Zampella and West appear to have pulled a similar process of taking a studio with them when they went from 2015 to Activision - Zampella and West no longer get on personally - Activision were trying to keep Infinity Ward tied to them while Infinity Ward was trying to break off as an independent studio - Both sides come out looking grubby
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