Supposedly both Vince Zampella and Jason West (now both former heads at Infinity Ward) were fired due to insubordination and breach of contract.
It's been publicly known that both developer Infinity Ward and publisher Activision have had several serious clashes in the past. Most of the problems were centered around the difference of opinions with the entire Modern Warfare saga.
Activision has always firmly believed that setting the series in modern times was 'too risky' and at one point and time they had even gone as far as doing a full market research survey to try and plead their case.
All we do know is that Infinity Ward will be continuing development of two downloadable map packs for release sometime in 2010 for Modern Warfare 2. But after that their future in the Call of Duty series remains uncertain.
Currently developer Treyarch is scheduled for the next Call of Duty release and a new studio called Sledgehammer Games is working on a Call of Duty project in the 'action-adventure' genre set to release in 2011.
Will we see Captain Price again? Does Soap MacTavish make it? What will become of Zakhaev? If Infinity Ward is out of the COD series we will never know. Only time will tell.
Since it's release on Nov 10th 2009, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has generated worldwide sales that have surpassed well over $1 Billion. It has shattered both gaming records and even theatrical box office records.
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