When Glen Schofield and Michael Condrey left Visceral Games to form Activision's Sledgehammer Games, everyone was left wondering just what the heck the studio's first project would be. If you guessed Call of Duty, you win absolutely nothing ... but you are correct.
Activision was in a talkative mood today, and revealed its current plans for the massively popular franchise. First up, there's the Sledgehammer announcement: the studio is working on an all-new Call of Duty game set in the "action-adventure" genre, and it is to be released in 2011.
Of course, Infinity Ward is still hard at work on Modern Warfare 2's first two add-on packs that are planned for this year. And what of Treyarch? Why yes, Treyarch is doing its thing, too: expect a new installment of Call of Duty from them sometime this fall.
Seeing as how the series is about as action-packed as you can get, I'm extremely curious to see what Sledgehammer's take will be like. Three different studios working on a single franchise? Yep, that's our Activision! Hit the jump for an update on the Infinity Ward management situation.
The following notice was included in the press release sent by Activision (emphasis added):
The Call of Duty business unit will be led by Philip Earl, who currently runs Activision Publishing's Asia Pacific region and previously served in senior executive positions with Procter & Gamble and Nestle. Activision Publishing veterans Steve Pearce, chief technology officer and Steve Ackrich, head of production, will lead Infinity Ward on an interim basis. Jason West and Vince Zampella are no longer with Infinity Ward.
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4:02 PM on 03.02.2010
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I'm so clever...not.
Look at what they did with Guitar Hero. They had their golden goose, Harmonix. After using them for what they were worth, they killed the goose and moved in other, cheaper publishers to follow the series. They then oversaturated the market until there was nothing left, and now RedOctane is no more and Neversoft is on the verge of closing.
You hear that Treyarch and Sledgehammer games? You'd better be watching your asses, because believe me you will be next in about two-three years time.
Here's hoping most of IW bails in October when their contract ends and ends up with another company where they can make games. MW2 is getting a lot of flack NOW from people who found they suck online, but it really is a fantastic game and very solid, as well as a cash cow. Again, Activision fails to realize it isn't the NAME of the game that is selling it, it's the quality that comes with a solid developer (read: Guitar Hero vs Rock Band). The fact Bobby mentioned the other day that he pretty much wished he'd bought Harmonix shows he didn't learn anything from this. IW will move on to another publisher, and make fantastic games (Metal of Honor maybe?) while Activision pumps out 10 CoD games a year until the genre dies.
This "slash and burn" mentality of doing business is what is destroying the game industry, and it looks like it is only getting worse. It is sad, really.
A huge shame there but expect casuals to lap it up until they burn their audience out.
NOLAN NORTH CONFIRMED
It can't be long until they run out of ideas.
Exec 1: Call of Duty...well...how about...'Corporate Warfare' That sounds cool, right?
Exec 2: Yes...and we could set it in...Wall Street or something.
Exec 1: Yeah, the kids will love that.
Fuck you activision.
Which is very, very depressing. Considering it means Activision realizes that people will buy CoD no matter who makes it, and every successful game IW makes, they get more money, while Treyarch and Sledgehammer, I think, would make much less (being less successful). So they stuck IW on a project they are pretty sure will fail, so they don't have to pay them as much once it does.
And now this. I'm done with Activision. I follow game industry news enough to put my money where the talent is, not where the brands are. I could give a shit less about Diablo, WoW, Starcraft, or anything they have to offer. They won't see a penny more of my money.
It would be awesome if 500,000 WoW subscribers quit due to this news. A relative drop in the bucket, but enough to be noticeable to Activision's bean counters.
I'm really very sad to have to come to this conclusion. River Raid was one of my favorite Atari games. At least it's comforting to know that mega-conglomerate entities have a way of imploding themselves once they get so large that they feel invulnerable to repercussions of their decisions.
that would totally work though..youd have to skateboard, shoot people and hit the right notes at the same time. Its like arthritis on a disc
Oh, and Activision? Go fuck yourself.
R.I.P COD you will be missed.
3 studios working on CoD games? What, 3 games a year next? Lulz.
Perhaps they will be dedicated to serving their consumers with these new releases!
Eh, that's all I got. I'm glad this tired series is finally meeting its end, 10+ games in 7 years and not even half were worth playing.
I like to divide Activision and Blizzard as evenly as possible, seeing as I do give a shit about StarCraft, Diablo and WarCraft.
The cats of dogfarts series needs taking around the back and shot. Twice.
give fps a bad name.