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Call Of Duty Legal Warfare

The PlayersThe ImplosionThe FrictionThe Conclusion

Contents

The Players

In 2009, the year Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was released, Activision Blizzard made $4.28 billion

Robert "Bobby" Kotick is currently the CEO and president of Activision Blizzard

Activision

Electronic Arts

Publisher of competing military shooter franchises Battlefield and Medal of Honor

the new home of Jason West and Vince Zampella ‘Respawn Entertainment’

Activision helped fund Infinity

Ward in its early days, buying up 30 percent of the company. The studio's first game was World War II shooter Call of Duty

Infinity Ward later went on to make Call of Duty 2, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for Activision

Infinity Ward

2 Leaders of Infinity

Ward On March 1, 2010,

Infinity Ward studio heads Jason West and Vince Zampella are fired.

West and Zampella sue Activision, filing a $36 million lawsuit

Jason West & Vince Zampella

West and Zampella vs. Activision

Activision vs. EA IWEG vs. Activision

The Implosion

On March 1, 2010, Infinity Ward studio heads

Jason West and Vince Zampella are fired. West and Zampella sue Activision, filing a $36

million lawsuit later they claim more than $1 billion in damages

Call of Duty creators Zampella and West go to trial on May 29 - 2012 but the trial was delayed. Later the lawsuit was settled in private negotiation.

West and Zampella vs. Activision

Activision sued Electronic Arts and West and

Zampella, seeking $400 million in actual and punitive damages for poaching the employees responsible for the company’s most profitable series.

The matter was later settled in private

Activision vs. EA

Following Activision's counter suit, top Infinity

Ward developers start leaving 38 current and former employees of Infinity

Ward brought a lawsuit against Activision the plaintiffs seek between $75 million and

$125 million in compensatory damages from Activision for unpaid bonuses for work on Modern Warfare 2

The company paid $42 million in owed royalties to the IWEG

IWEG vs. Activision

The Friction

Motivation Leadership

Conflict and

NegotiationJob Attitude

Failed to create motivational environment

Failed to reward fairly

Motivation

"With Call of Duty 2, we were dead set

against it being World War II," Zampella said in an interview

"We had to fight for everything," said Jason West in the same interview. "They wanted [Call of Duty 4] to be World War II. Again"

Failed to create motivational environment

Failed to create

motivational environment

Promise highly reward but try to delay and

break the promise. When asking for the reason that drives

Zampella and Jason West to EA, they answer that:” a better deal, IP ownership, and higher bonus rates”

Failed to reward fairly

The central man

behind all of the chaos: Bobby Kotick

The wrong decision when firing West and Zampella

Leadership

Conflict process Negotiation

Conflict and Negotiation

Cognition

In 2009, the year Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was released, Activision Blizzard made $4.28 billion, with $1.56 billion of that cash coming in the quarter in which Modern Warfare 2 was released.

The organization promises an extra bonus when they finish the next sequel of the game

Affect the employee get angry. Jason West and Vince Zampella

were fired. Behavior

more and more top leader of Infinity Ward start leaving

Job Attitude

The others that left Infinity Ward were

never fired. Did they all just walk away? West: "You're not paying me so I have to quit,

because you're not paying me, and I have a problem with that." And they have to spend their life savings to try to get paid.

Zampella: They came in and said, "We owe you this money, but we're not going to give it to you unless you work two more years and make us another game."

The interview question

"This legal battle between the old employees

of Infinity Ward and Activision is the most significant in video game history," said Evan Wilson, an analyst with Pacific Crest Securities

The publisher cannot treat its talent like garbage and not expect them to fight back

The Conclusion

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