Activision Wins Dismissal On One of Two Fraud Claims

Activision 1, West and Zampella 0. Round two...fight!

State Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle in Los Angeles agreed today with Activision that a fraudulent-inducement claim made by Jason West and Vincent Zampella, creators of the blockbuster game “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2,” shouldn’t go forward. He let stand a claim for promissory fraud.

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How would Activision prove that there were secret talks?

I had to google the first term since IANAL.

Apparently, it applies when you trick someone into thinking a situation is what it isn't in order to get them to sign, like if you told someone "we won't get more than a couple of customers per day needing maintenance on their equipment, so go ahead and sign this 12-month agreement to handle all maintenance."

Of course they would win, they are a big scumbag corporation and the USA government is in their pockets and are corrupt.

w4ffles said:

How would Activision prove that there were secret talks?

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There's no guarantee that the creators of Modern Warfare 2 are particularly bright in all areas of all things and could potentially have sent facebook messages via company wifi to EA contacts, used a company provided blackberry to send SMS texts/emails, send email from or via their work account, send the emails while logged into a web-mail service at work like gmail or hotmail with the company having screen-monitoring apps to ensure employees are working and not 'playing' and they were screenshotted, etc? or any number of other bone-headed things that people can do because people make mistakes.

I have to say, Activision suing EA for $400 million for interfereing with the contracts of their employees seems a bit .... lame and strange. I'd hope I'd be able to do whatever I want with whomever I want if I was a free-agent. If Star Wars: TOR, WoW's lastest work and Diablo 3 are any indications, people with talent don't last long at ActivisionBlizzard. *BaZing*

Peoples who go "baddabing baddaboom" donts like smarts peoples in the ranks!