Infinity Ward Bromance Sparks EA Offer Rumour
Recommendation is so sweet it'll rot your teeth.
Infinity Ward's recently departed CEO Vince Zampella has been given a glowing recommendation on his LinkedIn profile page by a fellow former employee, suggesting that Electronic Arts is to offer a "million-dollar bounty" for his talent.
Jesse Heinig was a production coordinator at Infinity Ward from 2004 to 2005, having been present during the development of Call of Duty 2. He's now a freelance writer for RPG company WhiteWolf, but that hasn't stopped him from being catastrophically verbose on his admiration for Zampella. In fact, the writing career probably helped him out.
"I had the pleasure of working briefly for Vince and seeing his skills first-hand," Heinig writes. "Vince's history in the game development business should already be legendary. How he, [former president] Grant Collier, and Jason West [former studio head alongside Zampella] forged Infinity Ward by turning around the talent from a team that was overworked and unhappy with their previous conditions." Aw, that's sweet.
"Vince is one of the few professionals that I'd call a visionary, in the most fundamental sense of the word: He has a powerful vision and he organizes a team to see it through," continues the recommendation. "He's able to juggle different divisions seamlessly, handle high-level meetings and interfaces between the team on the ground and the demands of the production studio, and still keep an eye on the final product."
...It sort of goes on a bit. Not satisfied with the ultimate show of bromance, Heinig said that Electronic Arts is willing to snap Zampella up for a very nice price. "Don't just take my word for it - rumor in the industry is that EA [Electronic Arts] placed a million-dollar bounty for snapping up any IW studio lead, like Vince.
"Just the fact that the rumor is out there should speak volumes about how badly people want Vince working on their products," concludes the piece.
It's funny, because we've not heard anything about this rumour at all. Could Heinig be simply trying too hard to big up Zampella, or has he potentially put his foot in a behind-the-scenes deal that nobody's supposed to know about yet? Guess we'll find out soon enough.
Via G4.
Jesse Heinig was a production coordinator at Infinity Ward from 2004 to 2005, having been present during the development of Call of Duty 2. He's now a freelance writer for RPG company WhiteWolf, but that hasn't stopped him from being catastrophically verbose on his admiration for Zampella. In fact, the writing career probably helped him out.
"I had the pleasure of working briefly for Vince and seeing his skills first-hand," Heinig writes. "Vince's history in the game development business should already be legendary. How he, [former president] Grant Collier, and Jason West [former studio head alongside Zampella] forged Infinity Ward by turning around the talent from a team that was overworked and unhappy with their previous conditions." Aw, that's sweet.
"Vince is one of the few professionals that I'd call a visionary, in the most fundamental sense of the word: He has a powerful vision and he organizes a team to see it through," continues the recommendation. "He's able to juggle different divisions seamlessly, handle high-level meetings and interfaces between the team on the ground and the demands of the production studio, and still keep an eye on the final product."
...It sort of goes on a bit. Not satisfied with the ultimate show of bromance, Heinig said that Electronic Arts is willing to snap Zampella up for a very nice price. "Don't just take my word for it - rumor in the industry is that EA [Electronic Arts] placed a million-dollar bounty for snapping up any IW studio lead, like Vince.
"Just the fact that the rumor is out there should speak volumes about how badly people want Vince working on their products," concludes the piece.
It's funny, because we've not heard anything about this rumour at all. Could Heinig be simply trying too hard to big up Zampella, or has he potentially put his foot in a behind-the-scenes deal that nobody's supposed to know about yet? Guess we'll find out soon enough.
Via G4.
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Mitch 9 Apr 2010 01:24
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I hope they go to Ubisoft instead