Dan Amrich: more will leave Infinity Ward, lose bonus

The war of words between Activision and the fired heads of Infinity Ward continues, with Activision's Dan Amrich saying bonus money will come to IW employees... if they're willing to stick around. The takeaway? He expects more people to leave.

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I have a couple of problems with this whole thing. First off, everyone is siding with West and Zampella without even asking "maybe activision was right." They were fired for being suspected in doing deals behind the back of Activision, and guess what when they were fired, the sure had an EA deal lined up pretty quick eh? Okay, so part of that sounds like a reasonable firing to me. Second, yes Activision is famous for working people to death, but so EA / Rockstar / <insert most game companies here>. What is really ironic is that in the game dev community West and Zampella are particularly famous for working their devs to death and probably why no one is signing on yet to their new dev house. Anyway, everyone in the gaming industry pretty much is evil, but all these stories seem a bit one sided. I'm not an activision fan, and I know no one who works for them.

This is where I am. My knee-jerk reaction is to keep Activision on my semi-boycott list, and to support Respawn fully if they make a good game. However I still don't know the details - did those two guys really cause trouble and Activision was right in firing them? Are both sides guilty of bad behaviour? I don't know yet - Ars, please keep covering this drama, especially if anything is decided in court, and I'd love a personal opinion thrown in on what y'all think.