The Infinity Ward staff exodus still appears to be in effect as the company loses its latest member, veteran programmer Jon Shirin.
Shirin tweeted around half an hour ago:
"After almost 6 years at Infinity Ward, I resigned today. I'm incredibly proud of everything we accomplished and I'm going to miss everyone."
It's not yet clear whether or not Shirin's resignation has anything to do with the firing of Infinity Ward's top men forming Respawn Entertainment, forming a partnership with EA and putting out a recruitment call for staff.
He has been with InfinityWard near the very start really, and he has grown close to the two founders that once occupied it. Now they are public with Respawn, he is in no doubt going there.
the fact that they've lost the guy in charge of the multiplayer build (MW's biggest selling point) means the next IW CoD will hopefully have a descent single player campaign.............. but i doubt it.
can only be a good thing if respawn can make a game without geting their ideas trodden on.
EA generally leave thier partnership studios to do Thier own thing. They basically publish and promote the games and do little else.
I really hope that respawn make something that isn't another military shooter. I'm sure after making nothing but COD for the past 8 years they'll want to do something else. I know i would.
I really hate MW2 on the PC. The hackers are everywhere, in fact I was just playing it 5 minutes ago and some hacker saying he was from IW leveled me up to level 70 in one kill.
That's what happens when you try to screw good people, they will just leave, setup their own company with the support of another big publisher and a release a new, better version of COD with just a different name. Look what happened to Championship Manager. Eidos tried to screw over the developers so they left made Football manager and the fans followed them and footballer manager went from strength to strength and championship manager is/was canned.
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