Infinity Ward's Bungie jump?

I have a feeling that Infinity Ward are going to pull a Bungie on Activision. I think IW will become a privately held company after they release Modern Warfare 2. If that Happens I see the same deal Bungie made with Microsoft going down between IW and Activision with the latter keeping the CoD name and the former going ahead with the Modern Warfare name or with a new IP all together. 

Hmmm, sounds interesting.  I'd like to see IW go independent and think they probably COULD, but I'm sure it'll end up just like Bungie if they do.  Activision will still publish their games, and they'll still be making the Modern Warfare games (which I guess is going to be their new franchise, and Activision will probably keep the COD name).

I don't see the need.. Bungie did it cause microsoft wasn't letting them try new things or work on other consoles.. They were done with Halo and microsoft wasn't.

I would like them too. IW is makes supreme quality and I am sure they aren't all that thrilled with the whoring out of COD that they have seen happen to their creation. Probably why they have dropped the name and just gone to MW2.

I don't know why people are bitch-slapping Treyarch so much. I thought WAW was pretty good. Is it because CoD 3? 'cause thats what i see IW fanboys referring too when trashing Treyarch. Activision gave them only 11 months to complete CoD3 and thats not enough time to make a game, at least not a good CoD game. I don't think even IW with all the talant and experience they have can make a good game in 11 months, thats just not enough time. 

Yah think games are just announced out of the blue? No... there planned month ahead before anyone knows. I don't care what yah think im just writing what i think and know

"We'll continue to make Xbox 360 games, and we'll continue to make amazing games for Microsoft Game Studios," Bungie clarified on its website. "In that regard, nothing has changed. All that has changed is that now Bungie Studios is once again, the property of the folks of Bungie Studios."

- sigh
http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/138348/bungie-leaves-microsoft-to-become-indie-studio/

"Microsoft will hold a minority equity interest, however, and the two parties "have forged a deep and long-term development and publishing relationship focused on the continued success of the Halo franchise."

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Just proves what im saying that bungie was still going to make Halo games after they left

Treyarch are hacks compared to IW. 

COD4's campaign was short but every moment of it was hand-crafted awesomeness.  WaW's campaign was equally short and extremely mediocre - oh, capture the Reichstag, I've never done that before in a CoD game!

WaWs multiplayer is popular apparently, but let's face it, it had practically already been built for them by IW.

As soon as Modern Warfare 2 was announced, I started to suspect that IW was trying to go independent. Especially since they repeatedly try to distance MW2 from the CoD brand name.

The front half of the Pacific campaign was alright - the rescue, the ambush with the flares and the beach landing - I don't know what went wrong with the back half, it was like being transported to mid 90s game design land.  The Russian campaign could have been lifted entirely from earlier CoD games and the bits of EATG that hadn't already been stolen.

For me, the CoD4 campaign is just one long memorable moment.