"Revelations" from Call of Duty suit led to rift between West and Zampella - Report

This is what happens when you let large publishing corporations buy your company. After they do that, you are at their mercy because they hold all the money and all the cards. If I'm going to sell my company to a big business, they I'm not going to be a part of that company anymore. I'd take my money and run. You never want to be the little man having to obey the bigwigs if you don't have to.

Titanfall looks like it will be a great game, but with EA in charge, who knows what will happen to Respawn or the Titanfall franchise.

This game looks really awesome. I'll be sure to follow up with more reading to see what the plan is going forward. I especially like the idea of bounding within the environment with ease. Seems really smooth.

I bet he got fed up when on one side he is getting rid of corporate America whilst Zampella was signing deals with Microsoft for exclusivity. I'd be curious to know if he even approved of the EA publishing deal.

That would probably be why Kickstarter, Project Greelight, and other alternative funding/publishing means are getting so popular. Game devs don't want to lose control of their idea to money men.

Let's see them try and strong arm me!

So he finally came to the revelation that publishers are out there to make money....who would have thought....

This is the guy to blame for ruining COD. Zampella is a cool dude. I think he sees how bad the franchise has been raped, kinda hard to not notice really.

it would be great if West also made his own game so instead of one we get two games :)

I'm sure Sony has a few new spots available for a name like his..

"How do they prevent themselves from being strong-armed by the guys with the money?" They don't. Neither do the veterans. And you can't make games with your own money either. Hell, the movie/television industries are in a similar state.

Creativity takes a backseat to marketability, or it dies. It's the pathetic reality of many modern industries.

Announcers voice: On the last episode of *insert soap opera title for this video game article*

The entire company is shit and their game. I will never pay a cent nor supporting this crap company.

yawn

Sounds like West had a "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" revalation at some point, told the execs to stuff it and Zampella wanted to kowtow. Given the timed exclusivity deal, its pretty easy to see why West took his money and told everybody involved to stick it.

And thus Activision's work is over.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVzB4rWdcck

One word West. Kickstarter.

This is turning into some odd soap drama.

What I took from this article is that greedy executives are killing the game industry by driving off the best talent. Which doesn't surprise me.

I'm sure west has enough money in the bank that he no longer needs the game industry anymore.

Sounds like Activision was right...at least about Jason West