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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VeszperrPosted:

For now, Treyarch **** up the 'new' IW in evry way possible !

MidtownPosted:

Treyarch is better as of right now when it comes to producing Call of Duty. True IW made COD4...but that was then, I don't care about that game now because the mods and hacks. I don't have a time machine, so I want to play the best games here and today. MW2 and MW3 are equally bad, and BO and WaW were actually advancements in the game...unlike MW2 or MW3.

theesilent750Posted:

-DrPepper
vibrantflame Saw this coming miles away.

i agree with you because this is true i mean Activision does make all the older games and IW makes mordern games. Its been like that for ever now

Treyarch, Activision just publishes both their games

DRoseMVPPosted:

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.


treyarc made cod 2...DERP

nope http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_Ward#Games


Haha "I heard it was absolutely terrible" "heard they were good" Stop making judgments that you have no idea about. Cod 3 was fun and people might say it was terrible but it didn't have the normal development time, I think it was like somewhere around a year, but I just know for sure that was significantly less than other Cods. Treyarc actually listens to the community more and tries to make a better game and change it up. All the CoDs get their graphics upgraded slightly, but MW3 was complete shit. And how the f*ck are you going to say that treyarch needs to man up and take a risk on a cod game. WTF Let's see here, Treyarch was the first to make a CoD game during the Vietnam and Cold Wars, according to leaks they are completely revamping the perk system for BO 2, IDK how the F you don't see Black Ops 2 as a risk, and zombies was a completely new innovation. All IW has done to change things up is add pro perks and add new killstreaks. Treyarch adds new game modes (zombies, Wager matches), a hell a lot more attachments and camos for guns than IW CoDs, and they had a good in-game scoreboard that was different for every gamemode (Unlike MW3 which uses the same damn scoreboard from Cod 4, it doesn't tell you the amount of plants, defuses, captures, etc).
/Rant Over

-DrPepperPosted:

vibrantflame Saw this coming miles away.

i agree with you because this is true i mean Activision does make all the older games and IW makes mordern games. Its been like that for ever now

DRoseMVPPosted:

ConnorHamilton
vibrantflame Saw this coming miles away.

Did you really? Do explain your vast knowledge of Activisions legal bindings.

And Activision will win, Jason and Vince do not have a legal team anywhere near the size/standard of Activisions.

ConnorHamiltonPosted:

vibrantflame Saw this coming miles away.

Did you really? Do explain your vast knowledge of Activisions legal bindings.

And Activision will win, Jason and Vince do not have a legal team anywhere near the size/standard of Activisions.

PixPosted:

if they did have to remake the game itd be pretty sick to see what the could pull outta them selfs in a few months even tho they wont have to remake it

pitythefoolPosted:

Fix
pitythefool
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.



treyarc made cod 2...DERP


nope http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_Ward#Games

FixPosted:

pitythefool
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.



treyarc made cod 2...DERP