Its Been A Long Time Coming....(Exodus in Motion) *UPDATE*

*UPDATE* 26. That is the number of talented devs and designers that have taken their leave from Activision's very own prison, Infinity Ward, and have either joined forces with Vince Zampella and Jason West at Respawn, or aren't employed as of yet.

The original seven to join Respawn were:

Todd Alderman - Lead Designer on MW2
Mackey McCandlish - Lead Designer on MW2
Mark Grisby - Lead Animator on MW2
John Paul Messerly - Lead Animator on MW2
Chris Cherubini - Lead Environmentalist on MW2
Rayme C. Vinson - Software Engineer on MW2
Jon Shiring - Programmer on MW2

The latest to jump ship from Infinity Ward are Senior Designers Mohammad Alavi, Chad Grenier and Brent McLeod as well as Programmer Chris Lambert and Jason McCord all last Friday. In addition to them three more left this past weekend: Level Designer Keith Bell, Designer Charlie Wiederhold and Level Designer Preston Glenn.

*UPDATE* Five more people left yesterday: Lead Character Artist Joel Emslie, Weapons Artist Ryan Lastimosa,  Artist Brad Allen, Lead Programmer Robert Field and (not a dev but still important) HR/recruitment specialist Kristin Cotterell.

All I can say is that this is testament to Activision's bad handling of an easily fixable situation; all of this could have been avoided and the people who matter, the Gamers, could've had MW3 in our hands in 2011/12. Now I doubt if the game will be put out and even if it is, if it will be worth it to even rent the game. I'll be checking that Respawn page like a hawk for any changes though, that's for sure...

-Armand