More staff quit Infinity Ward

Looks like people are leaving the sinking ship, it's a shame for Infinity Ward as they make really good games but if people keep leaving what's going to happen to IW, a possible merger with Treyarch and make a new studio.

Edited 1 times. Last edit by Jason Riley on 14th April 2010 11:10am

Posted:3 years ago

and the exodus continues.

how long before the bulk of IW ends up at Respawn, i wonder.

Posted:3 years ago

Game studios have created a culture where they have little to no loyalty to employees and so in turn Employees will jump ship at the smallest sign of trouble or for a slightly better offer.

Posted:3 years ago

Shaun was that the best comment? do you work for a Studio :p

Posted:3 years ago

I like the irony that the majority of the C.O.D. team used to be the Medal of Honour team at EA until Activision enticed them away - what goes around...

Posted:3 years ago

Even if Activision manages to keep the CoD series legally, I don't see it lasting much longer after the exodus has finished. Treyarch made some decent games, but they've all been based off of what IW did before them. Unless there's a serious talent surge there, I don't see CoD being able to beat out MoA in the future.

Posted:3 years ago

Both IW and Treyarch made Call of Duty the series that it is today. Treyarch deserves a lot more credit than what they get. Call of Duty 3, developed by Treyarch had a shorter development time period than COD2 and both MW's. With that said, COD3 was one of the best games in the series even with all the glitches that the game had.

Modern Warfare did revolutionize the series and was a huge success. With that said, Activision had no choice but to continue with the formula that made MW a success and had Treyarch follow suit with World at War. Both Treyarch and IW are studios under Activision so what they say, pretty much goes. That is where Jason and Vince disagree and this is the result- everyone jumping ship.

Edited 1 times. Last edit by Sergio Hidalgo on 14th April 2010 4:11pm

Posted:3 years ago

Yes Paul I do work for a studio, and my point more then anything else was that the culture of people leaving studios/people getting laid of is so pervasive these days that its hardly news.

Posted:3 years ago

Heh sinking ship might be over egging the pudding. I'm sure all those hundreds of millions of dollars Activison made will soften the blow...

Posted:3 years ago

Reputation....

Years to build. Seconds to crumble.

Posted:3 years ago

Money Matters... :D

Posted:3 years ago

Sergio you have to remember Treyarch got all the code and engine from IW, so of course the turn arounds were a lot less, they arguably had half the work done for them already

Posted:3 years ago

Luke - you don't know that the Treyarch guys and gals didn't add just as much back into the engine. The combined might of 2 studios would make something quite special, as we saw with the CoD engine.

Treyarch deserve to be lauded for their efforts - and as the reviews show, they make some damn good games.

Posted:3 years ago