Post: 7 Infinity Ward Devs Leave in 1 Day
04-24-2010, 09:57 AM #1
Caspa
Retired Mod
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Posted by George Broussard on his You must login or register to view this content., Infinity Ward have suffered their biggest loss yet, with 7 developers resigning in 1 day, a 'Black Friday' for the company. The list includes senior designers Mohammad Alavi, Chad Grenier, Brent McLeod, Charlie Wiederhold, along with programmer Chris Lambert and designer Jason McCord. By my count that leaves the total count at 19 since the start of the entire fiasco, when Jason West and Vince Zampella were fired by Activision.

It has also been confirmed that 7 of the developers that have already left Infinity Ward are jumping ship to West and Zampella's new studio, Respawn Entertainment.
- Todd Alderman, lead designer on Modern Warfare 2
- Mackey McCandlish, lead designer on Modern Warfare 2
- Mark Grisby, lead animator on Modern Warfare 2
- John Paul Messerly, lead animator on Modern Warfare 2
- Chris Cherubini, lead environmental artist on Modern Warfare 2
- Rayme C. Vinson, software engineer on Modern Warfare 2
- Jon Shiring, programmer on Modern Warfare 2

Sadly, this probably won't make any difference to the regular gamer, who won't be aware of this drama when a final product is released, and as Broussard said himself, ”the heart and soul that created it is leaving the building and that has long term effects.” Again, this leads to further set backs on the creation of Modern Warfare 3.


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04-24-2010, 07:47 PM #20
Bluemywaffle
Aka Integrity.
What'll happen to Modern Warfare servers? Would Infinity Ward close it after Bankrupted? I doubt they'll close the servers though, They're billionaires. :\
04-24-2010, 10:45 PM #21
Mue
Do a barrel roll!
I cant wait for a game made by respawn entertainment. Those designers definitely know how to make a good game.
04-24-2010, 10:48 PM #22
Xvailer
League Champion
IW might die oh noes!
04-25-2010, 02:19 AM #23
Kinetic
The Truth
These IW happenings were going to happen eventually since their 2 main people left. This is just the blowback for the top 2 people in IW being fired.

IW did do a good job, the just messed up the fact that their games can be hacked so easily, and they have horrible spawn systems.
04-25-2010, 03:19 AM #24
kfcb18
Keeper
all i have to say to iw is nothing


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04-25-2010, 08:23 PM #25
papa mudd
Pokemon Trainer
I remember reading about this the other day, before posted up here. Glad a news team posted this up, cause I can't post in this area (o:
anyways I don't know if anyone mentioned it, but it is now 8 instead of 7.

Also I'd like to suggest a single news thread or forum/subforum to discuss this ongoing matter. I mean there a lot of stats and related items that can be taken into consideration on this topic.

Also I think this brings the total resignations up to 19

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