It’s a safe bet to say even if Modern Warfare 3 was in development, it would be in the very early stages. Seems to me that since this memo was sent prior to the lawsuit being filed, that Activision may have planned, on the contingency of their winning, that they would obtain any and all materials Infinity Ward had already worked on for MW3. Meaning, Activision would have all this material to work with that they didn’t have to come up with. Of course, that’s just my theory.
Documents regarding any potential ‘spin out’ of IW, including but not limited to any communications with IW employees, West or Zampella regarding forming a new studio independent of Activision
Documents regarding West and Zampella’s communications with Activision’s competitors, including but not limited to Electronic Arts
The memo goes on to talk about Activision’s steadfast stance on their not doing anything wrong.
Realistically, this is going to be a long drawn-out situation that will result in one of the companies taking a big hit on both the fiscal and business side of things. I don’t want to pick favorites, but from the initial looks of things, big companies who fire small studios because they don’t want to pay them is pretty damn low. Also, it doesn’t serve Activision to not have proof of this insubordination or contract breaching prior to the firing of Jason West and Vince Zampella.
Game Rant will continue to report updates on this story as they come in.
Source: G4
