Call of duty Black Ops 2: 2025 setting violates IW contract — report

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Uh-oh, it would appear that Activision may have done an oopsie.

According to court documents relating to the upcoming ‘Acti vs. fired IW heads’ battle obtained by GameInformer, no post-Vietnam Call of Duty game can be developed by anyone other than Infinity Ward, which of course would be a problem for the near-future Call of Duty: Black Ops II.

Infinity Ward’s Memorandum of Understanding clearly states that Activision will retain authority and responsibility over all titles within the Call of Duty franchise while “specifically excluding any Call of Duty title set in modern day (post Vietnam), the near future or distant furuer, which shall be under the authority of IW”.

Whether Activision still considers the agreement valid after it fired IW heads Jason West and Vince Zampella is the question here, then. The upcoming court drama will hopefully clarify on that.

Should the former IW execs come out winners though — according to an intellectual property lawyer GI spoke to — they may have the right to ask Black Ops II to be pulled from shelves (the less likely option) or get forced royalty payments (the more profitable option).

The court date has been set for May 29.

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Source: http://www.thatvideogameblog.com/2012/05/09/black-ops-ii-2025-setting-violates-iw-contract-report/

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vibrantflamePosted:

Saw this coming miles away.

pitythefoolPosted:

TwistedMetal Infinity ward is just mad because treyarch makes better game's then them.Infinity ward killed the cod name.


lol?????

infinity ward made cod 1 and 2, I never played them, but heard they were good.

Treyarch made cod 3 and I heard it was absolutely terrible.

IW made cod 4, the best game in the series

Treyarch makes WAW using COD4 code, I'm pretty sure infinity ward wasn't happy they had to give them their game code. WAW is also a carbon copy of COD4. So how exactly is treyarch making 'better games' The only thing that was added was zombies and that was expected to not really pan out.

IW makes MW2, they update the graphics, add new perk system (pro perks etc), add new killstreaks etc etc. They try to make the game better. While I don't necessarily agree with everything (Pain pills lol) it was still a great game.

Treyarch makes BO, It was a decent game, Again they took the safe route pretty much taking the good from mw2 and adding a few things like a money system which was kinda stupid and whatever. The wager matches were fun though. It was kinda laggy and stuff.

IW makes mw3, I think its pretty good, but I'm getting kind of tired of FPS/cod after like 4 years of playing it and not much else. The new point streak system is nice for worse players.

My point being IW is the trailblazer, Treyarch is the moocher riding IW coattails. It'd be nice to see treyarch man up and take some risk on a COD game.

FinancialChadPosted:

This won't follow out. They're nearing the end of development, they couldn't sue the game at this point. Correct me if I'm wrong, but since the game is this far into development, suing Treyach for this specific purpose can lead to Treyach's ability to sue IW for multiple reasons. Not sure if this is a rumor or not, but I honestly don't think this will happen. They are too far into production to stop it now. Also, they have ties with Gamestop and preordering, already they have gotten thousands of pre orders. They would have to end the tie with Gamestop, and cause multiple problems with that. Also, they have released the trailer onto live television, and ads across websites, they couldn't just restart. I'm sure this won't carry out.

DersPosted:

Well, That is stupid.

RaitoKunRyukPosted:

Oasis So you got fired ages ago and now you feel like jeopardising the success of a game that falls under the same brand you once helped to build??

All because you feel like dipping your hands into what will inevitably be a filthy rich BO2 money pot.

Can someone please relegate these has-been's to a dark corner so that we never have to hear them again? Please?


They are just abiding by law/contract. The other company broke the contract, so now they're going to do whatever necessary to get proper judgement.

You can't just bend the rules and expect to get away scott-free. Assuming that you can do whatever you want just because you got rid of the main people in your way just doesn't cut it.

wtswasthatPosted:

**** Infinity Ward... let Blops2 be release and spend the next couple of years finding a GOOD team, developers and what not. Mw3 was so god awful and that's because you had terrible companies helping, spend a year at least getting a good company together again, and please oh please don't have any BS in your next game, as for the treyarch violation, who cares anymore? Allow them to make games about any wars, just not a sequel or trilogy to your story lines, other wise treyarch will fail, then you guys will be looked upon to deliver games every year and when you cant do that anymore you will fail and the Call of Duty will be nothing but a memory.

OasisPosted:

So you got fired ages ago and now you feel like jeopardising the success of a game that falls under the same brand you once helped to build??

All because you feel like dipping your hands into what will inevitably be a filthy rich BO2 money pot.

Can someone please relegate these has-been's to a dark corner so that we never have to hear them again? Please?

HumanPosted:

hope they god damn pull it from the shelves, looks like crap anyway

Rockst4rLobbiesPosted:

TwistedMetal Infinity ward is just mad because treyarch makes better game's then them.Infinity ward killed the cod name.


its a contract that's why there suing "not because there mad at treyarch"

No_OGs_LeftPosted:

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TwistedMetal Infinity ward is just mad because treyarch makes better game's then them.Infinity ward killed the cod name.



Call of Duty 4, and World At War are what created it and anything after that ruined the franchise.
Ill admit that Infinity ward did a great job on call of duty 4 my favorite cod next too World at war but you know hackers ruin everything :/.




Agreed, it's quite unfortunate. I'd rather play either of those over the newest games.


I too agree, hackers have murdered the best of the CODs, they really turned me to the un-hackable battlefield