Activision Couldn't Appear More Evil

The latest legal battle between Activision and Infinity Ward studio heads, Jason West and Vince Zampella, really takes the cake.  Mind you this is opinion of course without knowing all the facts of the situation, but on the outside looking in, it just looks like Activision trying to screw a couple of guys out of a whole lot of money.  At the same time Activision is trying to hang on to the Call of Duty franchise, which West and Zampella state they are in sole ownership of.

This once innocent publisher put out games that pushed the envelope on the Atari 2600, like Pitfall, Chopper Command, and River Raid.  Now they can't seem to escape the image of a money hungering beast.  Selling the soul of the Guitar Hero franchise (Harmonix) only to hand it off to a talented group of skateboard game developers (Neversoft), all along claiming Rock Band to be a rip off.  They've swallowed up mid and upper tier publishers like they were plankton (Vivendi, Blizzard, FreeStyleGames, Bizarre).  All while led by a man that can't keep himself out of controversy.  He's only interested in franchises that "have the potential to be exploited every year on every platform with clear sequel potential and have the potential to become $100 million franchises".  In other words, exploiting you.