wraggster
May 4th, 2010, 18:40
Bungie has ruled out the possibility of it ever working on a Call Of Duty game - or any other Activision-owned IP - despite its new 'alliance' with the publisher.
As we reported last week, the developer has entered into a ten-year exclusive publishing deal with Activision for a single IP; the studio's first since Halo.
Both parties have recognised the special relationship, dubbing it an "alliance". However, Bungie has retained the rights to the IP - and full creative control.
When CVG asked if Bungie would answer the call should Activision ever ask them to get involved with its biggest owned franchise, the studio's community boss Brian Jarrard said:
"No. We have no interest at all in working on anybody else's intellectual property. Realistically, the scale and ambition of what we hope to achieve with our own IP for the next ten years can only really happen if we have the full might of the entire studio working on it."
He added: "After spending the last ten years working on somebody else's IP, when the studio became independent back in 2007, one of our core charters in our constitution was that from now on, we would own what we create. Working on somebody else's intellectual property is just not interesting or compelling to us at all."
The likelihood of Activision asking another studio to give some assistance to the development of Modern Warfare 3 is growing by the week.
MW developer Infinity Ward has lost over a third of its staff this year - with many defectingto Respawn Entertainment, the EA-backed studio set up by sacked ex-IW bosses Jason West and Vince Zampella.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=245299?cid=OTC-RSS&attr=CVG-General-RSS
As we reported last week, the developer has entered into a ten-year exclusive publishing deal with Activision for a single IP; the studio's first since Halo.
Both parties have recognised the special relationship, dubbing it an "alliance". However, Bungie has retained the rights to the IP - and full creative control.
When CVG asked if Bungie would answer the call should Activision ever ask them to get involved with its biggest owned franchise, the studio's community boss Brian Jarrard said:
"No. We have no interest at all in working on anybody else's intellectual property. Realistically, the scale and ambition of what we hope to achieve with our own IP for the next ten years can only really happen if we have the full might of the entire studio working on it."
He added: "After spending the last ten years working on somebody else's IP, when the studio became independent back in 2007, one of our core charters in our constitution was that from now on, we would own what we create. Working on somebody else's intellectual property is just not interesting or compelling to us at all."
The likelihood of Activision asking another studio to give some assistance to the development of Modern Warfare 3 is growing by the week.
MW developer Infinity Ward has lost over a third of its staff this year - with many defectingto Respawn Entertainment, the EA-backed studio set up by sacked ex-IW bosses Jason West and Vince Zampella.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=245299?cid=OTC-RSS&attr=CVG-General-RSS