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It's become regular, repeated news at this point but no less important. Another two employees who once worked at Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 developer Infinity Ward and resigned in the wake of Activision's firing of former studio leadership Jason West and Vince Zampella have joined West and Zampella at their new Electronic Arts-backed studio, Respawn Entertainment.
Mohammad Alavi, once a game designer at Infinity Ward, has updated his Linkedin profile to reflect a decision to enlist at Respawn as "senior map monkey." Alavi helped design the infamous "No Russian" sequence and the post-EMP mission "Second Sun" in Modern Warfare 2.
Brad Allen, senior artist at Infinity Ward and once again senior artist at Respawn, is coming to Respawn alongside Alavi. Allen's Linkedin profile explains an excellent reason for the change.
"I am joining forces with a team of deadly ninjas," said Allen.
Who can argue with that?
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick made a lengthy comment about Infinity Ward and Activision's decision to terminate West and Zampella during a financial call to shareholders and analysts.
"I personally considered the two of them [West and Zampella] friends," explained Kotick last week, "and their [decision] was a compromise of our friendship, which was equally disappointing. Once we began to understand what had occurred, there was no grey area. There was nothing that would have allowed us to retain their services, as talented as they might have been."
Allen and Alavi elevates the number of publicly confirmed developers converted to 20.
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BLLACKBEAR
Epic Fail!!!! Its not to late to kiss and make up for the right price, lol, this is the end of Call of Duty, and the gamers know it, I dont even think I will buy another Call of Duty MW game
scoobythebeast
I kinda believe that infinity ward wanted to touch up the multiplayer before it was released but we all know that activision demanded a november release date. I would think they wanted to fix it all later but we all know that activision probably wanted them to immediately jump into making Modern Warfare 3. So i really don't blame them as much as i blame activision
vismortis
There needs to just be a page that is updated with everyone that leaves. We dont need a new article everytime someone leaves. Look back at how the Rare(Ware) breakup was reported. Most sites just had a page that listed everyone that ran from Rare to start Free-Radical. Im drawing the comparison just because Rare was the IW of the late 90's and 2000 with GE and PD. And the exact same thing hapened at Rare that is happening at IW with the employees leaving and the former studio becoming a shell.
dsa0224x
all this IW vs. activision is just like music today versus music back in the days. as corny as music was back in the 80's, it was original, it wasnt about making the biggest dollar amount. now every music title in the radio screams copycat. every rapper sounds like the other rapper. very few artists are about originality. record companies are more interested in making profit, rather than finding talented artists to make music as an art..
activision is just part of that vicious cycle of greed in place of the record company. in my own mind its going to leave a nasty mark on the face of video gaming. and its has come to a point where im dont want to go to gamestop to buy another COD or any other game knowing the hidious mentality these game companies have. ive been a game since the atari age , and now i wish i wasnt because in what is happening.
Notafanboythatiknow
No offense Patrick, but this issue is getting redundant. It is great that former IW are getting away from Activision though.
CaBB
Its major cause the people leaving IW were in positions where the title generally began with something like Lead..., but it won't be fatal because activision won't let IW die even if it isn't composed of the original members.
cpspoo
How big was IW originally?? It seems like losing 20 experienced people would be fatal unless you have 100+ employees.
clofton13
Um are these guys responsible for all the people being able to do glitches in mw2 if so i dont care about them and they need to stop making games
Slymerz
No One Ever Cared
bigboi21
I know this is a major event in gaming at the moment, but do you really have to post an entire article every time someone leaves. I mean don't get me wrong i love G4, but can't you just give us some kinda link to an updated page on this news.
Or you know, the counter thing i mentioned a while back. ;)
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