Activision smacks down Infinity Ward

[Toastburner B]

What do you do to a company that developed one of the three games that earned 68% of your income last year?

Well, if your Activision, apparently you fire the top people of Infinity Ward, replace them with two people from out of studio, send "bouncer-types" to the studio, and in the process, freak out the staff, and hand off the franchise to yet another developer. Activision has done all this, citing "breach of contract" and "insubordination", according to a filing with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

In one of the articles I linked to above, Actvision claims that they do not expect this move to "have a material impact on the Company." Yeah, I don't see how basically decapitating and crushing morale at a studio that delivered a billion dollar game to you could possibly have a effect on your bottom line.

And, because everyone loves Tim Schafer :

"Getting mad at Activision for this kind of thing is like getting mad at an ape for throwing feces," said Schafer. "It's just how the beast communicates."