Comments on: EA And Activision: Things Are Getting Ugly.

By: Braton14

Braton14 — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 01:26:00 +0000

Just looking at the Age Of Conan advert on the right and thinking that Conan could be replaced by arthas.. I think everyone knows who’s been replaced as the king of MMOs

By: Loser2

Loser2 — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:39:00 +0000

trolololollolololololololl

By: ♠ sixxPENCE

♠ sixxPENCE — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:21:00 +0000

Dan, for the most part I do concur with what you’ve said about more research should be looked into about California labor & employment law before we go all half cocked with assumption.

Though I assure you when this dispute started it was initially of West and Zampenella wanted Intellectual property rights as well there royalties for the COD modern warfare series.. Then Activision started the accusations of them breaking contract by working with EA behind there backs., And only ones besides EA siding with Vince and Jason, Is the IWEG = Infinity Ward Employee Group with 38 ex employees saying the same as West and Zampenella. Theyre suing for bonuses an unpaid compensations. as well punitive damages. As for May ,7th 2012 is not for EA and West/Zampenella it is for the hearing for the IWEG..

By: FleshEatingZipper

FleshEatingZipper — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:28:00 +0000

Hey, thanks for the comment Dan. Yeah I read quite a bit about the lawsuit but I really didn’t want to go into it all since 63828464839291 sites are covering it. I just figured it deserved a quick mention since it is one of the fronts in the war between the two companies.

I also mentioned that the two were unrelated. I realized there could be some confusion so I made sure to pop that in there.

Again, thanks for the comment. A little constructive criticism is always better than being called a faggot by a reader, because they didn’t like an article.

Cheers

By: Dan (OneOfSwords)

Dan (OneOfSwords) — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:17:00 +0000

Depends on that person’s contract.

By: Dan (OneOfSwords)

Dan (OneOfSwords) — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:17:00 +0000

There is no relation at all between the suit you are reporting on and SWTOR or Bioware. None at all.

By: ArbiterX

ArbiterX — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:01:00 +0000

its more EA vs Activision and BioWare & Blizzard are getting pulled in by the media

By: Trey T.

Trey T. — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:17:00 +0000

What the hell is going on here?! Usually a company just makes a better counter offer to keep their key employees (or gives them a piece of the rock, promotion, etc.). I guess it’s really not about the programmers. Any excuse to let the lawyers loose.

By: ♠ sixxPENCE

♠ sixxPENCE — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:43:00 +0000

Actually this is pretty old news , I mean this was on the hinges all the way in 2010, The main thing that started all this. Was Vince and Jason who were not just any programmers they are the true founders of Infinity Ward for one. Two; they were not getting there royalties from the series and they asked up front for their money they were owed ! Then Activision pulls this they were being lured away by EA b.s. Here check this wiki link ,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_Ward (i know wiki is not the most reliable) But this will give you alot more insight. If you search for more definitive answerings I suggest you google for much indepth sources. Trust me they are out there and Adam Sessler from X-play did a good piece about this on his radio show. Truly open my eyes up on the matter.

By: FleshEatingZipper

FleshEatingZipper — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 21:40:00 +0000

Actually, I should be more clear. The lawsuit doesn’t relate to the SWTOR / WOW competition, it relates to EA allegedly luring programmers away from Activision. They are pretty mad about SWTOR, though.