I'm a huge fan of the CoD series myself and if you look carefully you'll notice one thing throughout it's history. Infinity Ward makes the best CoD games. Call of Duty 2 was an IW project and was beloved by it's fans. CoD 3 was a treyarch development and was, in my opinion, terrible. CoD 4 : MW then came out from IW and was probably the greatest FPS ever released. Soon after Treyarch "borrows" the game engine and tries to retread it into CoD: World at War. Somehow between IW giving them a spectacular game engine they managed to create a game with bad hit detection and terrible spawns, not to mention a played out theme of WW2. This brings us to today and Infinity Ward is still rolling in money piles after MW2 released in November. Guess who gets to make the upcoming CoD game touted as taking place during Vietnam? Bet you also can't guess who will want to ride on the backs of all the hard workers at IW by utilizing the IW game engine again? Take one more guess as to who will ruin another CoD title by sheer incompetence alone. Treyarch. If I were Infinity Ward I would demand Treyarch develop their own engine. This is probably what happened and Activision is pissed. Imagine being a track star and having an identical twin brother who is severely retarded. Your parents force you to take turns racing in sanctioned events at the highest level. Every time your retard brother steps out onto the track with his helmet and crayons wearing your jersey he makes you look like a fool. This is how IW must feel having to share code with Trayarch.
Treyarch's Call of Duty games are perfectly fine. My only issue with COD3 was that it never found its way to the PC. I enjoyed it on Xbox 360 though, was it groundbreaking, no, but what COD game has been since the first two?
What I have trouble understanding is how anyone can be unhappy with that enormous success. My bet is you had two guys that thought they were worth more in the grand scheme of things, seeing the pile of money that was generated by MW2 they probably wanted to see a bigger cut for themselves, and everyone fights over money.
Don't like developing for a big publisher, get your own investment capital and release the game for download yourself like 2-D boy did. Wanna make a multi-million selling 3D blockbuster? Well, for now you gotta play the game, you need investment capital, you need a backing partner, and that means you have to play by their rules.
Hey, you just made a boat load of cash on the fastest selling video game of all time, what ya gonna do! Go to the boss, throw a hissy fit and get fired???? WTF????
"Treyarch's Call of Duty games are perfectly fine. My only issue with COD3 was that it never found its way to the PC. I enjoyed it on Xbox 360 though, was it groundbreaking, no, but what COD game has been since the first two?"
Activision is killing itself from the inside-out. First they killed Sierra and Red Octane, and now Infinity Ward will inevitably be shut down, and without up-to-date resources for CoD games, Treyarch will be closed within 2 years because they don't produce anything else big-name besides the CoD games and Tony Hawk: Ride flopped, so I don't think they're on Kotick's good side at the moment.
"Treyarch's Call of Duty games are perfectly fine. My only issue with COD3 was that it never found its way to the PC. I enjoyed it on Xbox 360 though, was it groundbreaking, no, but what COD game has been since the first two?"
I want whatever it is that you're smoking!
The typical Infinity Ward only player is only focused on the narrow multiplayer aspect.
World at War was the finest single player experience in the history of the franchise, and, a Treyarch title.
I'm not saying one is superior to the next, I'm just saying Treyarch is not a hack developer.
One thing that really annoys me is when someone writes or states that a person was "let go" from a company. Like they did the person a favor by allowing them to leave. They were FIRED!!! FIRED !!! Use simple and direct language!
People in this country have been BS'd into thinking that if they change the name of the condition, that somehow they will change the condition.
WTF were they thinking? They release one of the most successful games in history (in terms of sales) and then a few months later they get shit canned? When did Activision turn into EA?
Chris, in my opinion, Activision turned into EA the moment they started selling a rainbow of flavors of their Guitar Hero series. What was once a fun and innovative take on the guitar/rhythm game family (since indeed GH didn't do it first) has become so diluted with "new" fluff that I couldn't care less about future releases.
It was so perfectly stated on Twitter by someone when they said "what, is Activision being run by NBC now?"
Word on the street is that IW is done with Call of Duty. If that's true... something ugly is afoot.
I for one will be glad to see the death of the COD:MW series if it happens. I'm sorry, but the multiplayer aspect that everyone over hyped looked and played like a glorified Counter Strike to me.
I'm pretty the servers were fucked up or something in MWF2 cuz that was definently the most hacked game I've ever played in my life.personally I think treyarch wins with the zombies, and infinity ward for single player. Both multiplayers failed in their own ways.hopefully black ops will change that
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What I have trouble understanding is how anyone can be unhappy with that enormous success. My bet is you had two guys that thought they were worth more in the grand scheme of things, seeing the pile of money that was generated by MW2 they probably wanted to see a bigger cut for themselves, and everyone fights over money.
Don't like developing for a big publisher, get your own investment capital and release the game for download yourself like 2-D boy did. Wanna make a multi-million selling 3D blockbuster? Well, for now you gotta play the game, you need investment capital, you need a backing partner, and that means you have to play by their rules.
Hey, you just made a boat load of cash on the fastest selling video game of all time, what ya gonna do! Go to the boss, throw a hissy fit and get fired???? WTF????
I want whatever it is that you're smoking!
Also, my favorite CoD game is World at War.
The typical Infinity Ward only player is only focused on the narrow multiplayer aspect.
World at War was the finest single player experience in the history of the franchise, and, a Treyarch title.
I'm not saying one is superior to the next, I'm just saying Treyarch is not a hack developer.
wut
People in this country have been BS'd into thinking that if they change the name of the condition, that somehow they will change the condition.
It doesn't fool me, I see them coming!
lol double wut??
I'm just sayin, both Treyarch and IW are very capable developers.
Word on the street is that IW is done with Call of Duty. If that's true... something ugly is afoot.
Overheard: What Activision is really saying to Infinity Ward