With all the hype surrounding today’s release of COD: MW3: Electric Boogaloo (citation needed), I almost forgot the game was being released by Infinity Ward in name only. The originators were denied their bonuses, fired, escorted off of the premises and sued shitless, and I was thinking about how that all ties back to the anti-corruption protests going on around the globe. How more corrupt does a company have to be to completely black ball the people who made them millions? Activision completely got off Scott Free with their deplorable actions, as today’s release will prove. It’s set to be the highest grossing release in history for a video game, and consequently all media by proxy. They basically proved you can keep an idea and do away with the people who had it. Imagine if James Cameron was fired from his studio after Avatar was released, and they gave the sequel to Uwe Bowl to direct? There’s not much of a difference. No fan of the series would ever be indignant enough to boycott the release on principle alone. You can hate what they did, but you’ll still give them your money. The team who created this game could very well find themselves fired as well, as the gaming industry is notorious for it’s unjust layoffs.
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