14 DAY TRIAL // Bobby Kotick, the Chief Executive Officer of Activision Blizzard, has stated that the current view of developer Treyarch as the second string team when it came to Call of Duty video games is unfair, given the amount of work they have put into the multiplayer element in Modern Warfare 2 and the current success of recent launch Black Ops.
Kotick told Destructiod that, “That’s an unfair view of Treyarch. You know it’s not really an objective view. Treyarch contributed so significantly to the multiplayer technology that’s in Modern Warfare 2 and they didn’t really get the credit for that.”
Kotick also said that Treyarch has a good solid team which should not be stripped in order to fill the positions that have been left open at Infinity Ward after two of its founders left in the spring and then prompted other key personnel to join them in their new venture, Respawn, which is working with publisher Electronic Arts.
Kotick repeated the line that there is “no shortage of talented people who want to work on Call of Duty”, suggesting that Infinity Ward currently has enough developers in order to work on new content for Call of Duty.
Treyarch has managed to impress this year with the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops, which was positively received by gamers and managed to deliver a single player component that seems more grounded and intelligent than that of Modern Warfare 2, the last Infinity Ward made title.
The game managed to break launch day records, creating more than 300 million dollars in revenue for Activision and continues to sell well.
The publisher has already confirmed that it plans to put out a new Call of Duty in the second half of 2011 but it's not clear which studio will be doing the development work on it.
Infintiy Ward and Treyarch face competition from newly created outfit Sledgehammer Games.