I honestly wonder if Zampella and West wanted MW2 to fail (in the long run) because they were tired of making COD games. Maybe they said no to making MW3 and that's why they got canned. Anyways their is no excuse for how unpolished MW2 is and how they abused their PC fan base.

im glad they are gone but to say that MW2 was a failure is stupid. HEAR ME OUT most of us got the game therefore they got our money. most of us did this because we really wanted to see if it was as bad as all the PC people were saying which it was. therefore to IW etc it was a HUGE success because not only did they make a killing of noobbox etc but most of us got it. Hence the game was a massive success as the sales numbers tell us but it represents that even blank can be sold as if its gold. hopefully activision fails and Blizzard and IW go independent again. hopefully these guys somehow get MILLIONS from activision so that it hurts their pockets and (i know probs not possible) but the rights 2 COD and MW that way the devil of activision gets blank over (aslong as they dont ruin it with noobbox exclusives lol).

Luckily Blizzard has free reign in the games they choose to make and when they release them. Blue was smart enough to have that in their contract when they merged with Activision.

And now 402 iz gone...

Yea I heard he is laying low. He probably is still around just muzzled, because he has a habit of putting his foot in his mouth when he comments non 360 matters.

It's the end of CoD, the treyarch thing will now be doubtfull in my eyes... i suspect we will see something but it will be tightly controlled.

The Two leads at IW being fired is a very bad thing, reading through the court paper I get the feeling that this has been running a while since MW, so MW2 is just an extension of money greed, I have the feeling that they were forced into MW2, especially if they had no money for a proper PC development and felt that they should just deliver the product, I feel that there is a lot of hatred against Activision.

We got screwed over but these guys need their rewards for MW!!! that was a classic game

Rumor has it that EA really wants to snag these guys up along with any other IW leads.

They're planning an announcement really soon!

Like this?: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/ne ... 6384.story

Jason West and Vincent Zampella have formed Respawn Entertainment and signed with EA.

This is all really good pulp to chew on.I imagine these guys have plenty of ideas they have been sitting on for quite a while.

This quote is what gamers will be hanging on for awhile.
"We have learned the hard way," said Zampella, "that the best way to ensure the integrity and quality of your work and make sure the fans get what they deserve is to own the intellectual property."

It will be fascinating to watch the progress and see if W&Z are able to think of the PC community as a whole.I have always thought that the exclusion of dedicated servers and the modders was an unnecessary move. Good creative minds could find a way to practice inclusion and still be wildly profitable with a quality game.Selling content and including the tweakers is not mutually exclusive. And in fact should be able to be EXTRA-profitable.

As an aside does anyone know the history of whether there was a fallout between West,Zampella and Collier?
It would be interesting to see Collier come back from hiatus and have a role.