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Former Infinity Ward executives Jason West and Vince Zampella have launched a lawsuit against former employer Activision for "substantial royalty payments" relating to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The lawsuit follows a great deal of controversy and rumours over the last few days, which saw West and Zampella fired from their jobs at Infinity Ward, the games studio which developed the billion dollar grossing Modern Warfare 2. West and Zampella co-founded in 2001 and sold it to Activision in 2003. At the time they were fired, Activision made a SEC filing in which it indicated that an investigation was being conducted into their "breaches of contract and insubordination". They say they were weeks away from being paid royalty payments over MW2. In a nutshell, West's and Zampella's argument nbmishini appears to be that these allegations of "breaches of contract and insubordination" were unsubstantiated and put forward to justify Activision firing them before their royalty payments became payable. Their press release said: "Activision has refused to honor the terms of its agreements and is intentionally flouting the fundamental public policy of this State (California) that employers must pay their employees what they have rightfully earned," said their attorney Robert Schwartz. "Instead of thanking, lauding, or just plain paying Jason and Vince for giving Activision the most successful entertainment product ever offered to the public, last month Activision hired lawyers to conduct a pretextual 'investigation' into unstated and unsubstantiated charges of 'insubordination' and 'breach of fiduciary duty,' which then became the grounds for their termination on Monday, March 1st." "We were shocked by Activision's decision to terminate our contract," said West. "We poured our heart and soul into that company, building not only a world class development studio, but assembling a team we've been proud to work with for nearly a decade. We think the work we've done speaks for itself." Zampella added, "After all we have given to Activision, we shouldn't have to sue to get paid."
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Modern Warfare 2 is arguably one of the most successful games in history and together with Call of Duty, has generated more than $3 billion in sales for Activision. In addition, Activision seized control of the Infinity Ward studio, to which Activision had previously granted creative control over all Modern Warfare-branded games. The suit was filed to vindicate the rights of West and Zampella to be paid the compensation they have earned, as well as the contractual rights Activision granted to West and Zampella to control Modern Warfare-branded games. The suit includes claims for breach of contract, breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, wrong termination in violation of public policy, and declaratory relief."





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