Activision countersuit against Zampella and West seeks money back, alleges multi
Further, Activision claims that "on numerous occasions and during critical final stages of game development," West and Zampella threatened to stop production on last year's Modern Warfare 2 "in a bad faith effort to gain further leverage in their contractual relations with Activision." And during all this, the publisher claims that the studio heads were engaging in secret conversations "with Activision's direct competitor" (presumably Electronic Arts, though an EA representative refused to confirm that earlier today).
As a result of these alleged actions, Activision's complaint seeks to "recapture certain equity from West and Zampella, and to recover, as a measure of
damages, all compensation and benefits in addition to equity received by them during the period of their disloyalty." In English, that means that Activision is seeking an undisclosed fortune from the defendants, left up to the court to determine, but consisting of money the two earned during their amorphous "period of disloyalty." And there's a ton more in the complaint that we couldn't fit into this measly post, so we'd strongly suggest clicking through its 23 pages in the gallery below. We'll gather up some of the most notable bits and share them after the break.
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kushhPosted:
well from what ive heard mw2 almost didnt hace cod tittle to it if you preordered it and got the poster it doesnt say call of duty on it i heard they didnt want to pay for the titler but ends up its on the game
so not rerally a suprise to me
so not rerally a suprise to me
Rystar123Posted:
Nah, if activision pull out IW is screwed s AV own the 'Call of Duty' Franchise and all its game coding/inhouse game engine, so basicaly, if IW become indie game producers, there gonn have to start fresh :(
0141Posted:
MW2 is mega fail! Let's all hope they start fresh and MW3 lives up to the expectations of the COD series. Good read, thanks for this.
GW369Posted:
well...personally Im glad things with Activision arent so hot. IW knew that if they handed it over to AV, they would milk it like GH. At least they are saying no to that. Or am I wrong about the whole thing? idk
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