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The Future of Infinity Ward


The biggest question I'm probably asked the most on any given day is, "What are you guys working on now?!"; Especially since it's been nearly 9 months after we've shipped (the currently #1 most played game on Xbox Live) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, a Variety Map Pack for it on every platform, and several patches later. While I can't quite say what it is, that we're currently working on it, I did want to give you a status report on exactly what's happening here at Infinity Ward and where we're going as a studio.

Future Projects From Infinity Ward

We're excited to announce that in the recent months we have decided to reup on our contract with Activision publishing. The recently renegotiated deal may not seem like much of an impact from the outside perspective, but it has laid the ground work and kick started our future project, as well as the possibility of a unique new IP by Infinity Ward, that we'll have complete control over. We're excited to be working on our next project, but it's going to be quite a while before I can share any details on exactly what that project is.

Building The Community

With Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, we were heavily focused on building a community around our titles. Launching Charlieoscardelta.com to give our fans an early look at the game via the Beta, as well as stay informed on pre-production with weekly blogs, status reports, and 1v1 feedback with myself and the rest of the development teams. We're planning on expanding on this mentality of how we do things in the future, moving out of the era of typical "PR" and moving towards an even more focused community driven future.

About 4 months ago, Grant Collier transitioned from Infinity Ward to Activision (special projects). As some of you may know, Grant handled a good amount of the PR duties for the studio with myself handling the more community / individual focused efforts. With our Community focused efforts expanding even further in the future, that PR-type position is no longer required at IW, as we'll be spearheading more tangible, personal means of getting information out to our players. Which is why we're so excited about the new Infinityward.com site. As we did with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, we are building a strong community around the studio which will allow our fans an even closer look at pre-production of our future titles, and keep them fully intune with the studio, the team, and the projects we're working on at any given time.

Essentially, this means we plan on doing much less of the traditional PR that ends up being a one way street, and building on what worked so well in the pre-production of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, where myself and the rest of the development team has an open line of 2-way conversation with our community throughout development and after launch.

Expanding Our Team and Studio

In case we haven't made it completely obvious via the in-game Message of the Day enough times, WE'RE HIRING! We're aggressively looking to expand our team here at the studio and are looking for the best talent in the industry to join us here at Infinity Ward. Therefore if you qualify for any of the following positions are looking to join the #1 development studio in North America according to Game Developer Magazine, then be sure to send us an email:

Motion Capture Technician
Senior Software Engineer
Software Engineer
Environment Artist
Senior Animator
Associate Producer
Unix Administrator
Marketing Manager
Game Designer

Note the Marketing Manager and Unix Administrator positions above, as they are perfect examples that we're looking for people in all areas of the industry. Trust me, there is absolutely no better studio to work at in the industry. You can learn more about the individual benefits of working here and a bit about the culture of the studio at the new Infinity Ward website, so be sure to check it out and let me know if you have any questions regarding a position you might be good for.

Hopefully this gives you a good perspective on where we stand at the time being, and what you can expect to see from us in the near and distant future.

Comments

I wish if you can put more leveles on the online to be a new chalenges
for the players....
and i have quecshion about the server it`s not working now
How meany time it will take antill its working again

thanks.............

Whatever you decide to do next I'm sure it will be amazing

But don't forget about Cod4

I Know you have stated that there will be no trophies for cod4 on ps3 due to it being to late.

Will you at least give us the in-game music feature?

As a substitute instead as you have not addressed this question which is being asked by the playstation cod4 community.

P.S Any reply or acknowledgement that you at least hear or read what we write would be grateful.

on the xbox 360 the last map pack was ok at best... most everyone on there are wondering are we going to get some new maps? china town no good. no place for air strikes every body hides in buildings.... kill house we dont get to play unless you play 1 on 1... the creek snipe or hide in the cave.. best one is broadcast. so new maps would be a great thing and some new guns that are in single player but not multiplayer.. and why when you finally get the highly sought after gold cross (10 prestiege) you get nothing not even a good job whats up with that ..but after evrything said this is far the best game out we just want more maps and some new guns.

thanx for your time joshua

Hi im MEXICAN and i just want to say that call of duty 4 is the better game i've played in ps3 but the only thing and so bad is that sony has not a ps store for Mexico and i can't buy the map pack because doesn't acept mexican creditcards in an account of U.S.A. but out of that call of duty rocks is the coolest game and it will be great if infinityward it would put new guns and something new when arriving at the tenth level that will be great.

I hope InfinityWard listen to us thanks

enrikeonly

ANY NEW MAPS PLANNED ?IS WHEN

This probably isn't the place to ask, but I was curious about DLC. I know there have been no announcements regarding future releases other than there's no current plans (but that doesn't mean there won't be), but I was wondering about the price we pay for it.

How much of that goes to IW? Is it just a percentage of the sales or is there a flat fee paid to cover development costs as well? I suppose I'm just curious because, with the exception of the PC version, the fee we pay is roughly 15% of the total cost of the full game with, I feel we could all agree, much less than 15% of a full game of new content.

cod 5 when is it happening ive played cod 4 so much ive worn out two controllers i see little men in my sleep. i need new dreams

the future sounds good
I want to be on the team with Infinity Ward meaning I would like to work with everyone
but I'm only 15 so yeah

Ok so I`m ganna just make a list here of new things and things already named that should be added via update to CoD4:

1. New Maps(Larger ones)
2. New Guns/Accessories to go with(Scopes & Cammo)
3. More realistic perks(Extra armor in place of juggernaut etc..)
4. Termination of glitches/cheats (play fare kiddo`s lol)
5. More realistic shooting(I hate getting shot through brick and steel walls unless its a 50 cal rifle of some sort)
6. More realistic air strike accuracy (I want to see buildings explode damn it or atleast have the air strikes penetrate through buildings lol)
7. Increase standard team size to 8 instead of 6 & make ground war atleast 15 per team(30players max for ground war) That would be a hell of a gaming experience lol Also keep larger maps in mind for this one as well!

Well this is all I could think of, hope to c ya on the battle feild!

GamerX1989

unlike gamerx1989i just have one rational suggestion, get rid of bastard frag x3! its really beginning to make me lose interest in the game and becomes incredibly annoying with people abusing it, christ why dont you give them all mortars? or infinite artillery?

please please please get rid of frag x3

any chance of a rumbel download for the ps3 cod4 as thay have new control pads out

man i hope infinity ward dose a halloween special like in that video man if so that would rock.

i really love da game and i cant wait until cod5 comes out but until then u guys should have an update for cod4 and it shonld be we can have like three more classes cuz 5 isnt enough

We DO need new maps. Here is a hot idea for one:

A huge, mountain board covered in snow with boulders and trees and everyone's outfits are white like the snow so they can hide - just like in the movie, "Shooter".

Also, being able to play our own music during the game would be nice, too...

1. drop juggernaut(or slow the jug users mobility)
2. more prestige levels
3.give us more combinations with our classes, like, silencer and red dot.

4. ACOG on snipers make them (too) accurate, almost magical.

thanks for the best game ever made!

The ability to play our own music in game would be great.

what i think the game needs is more weapons. you get more weapons in the single player that you dont get in multiplayer, such as the M4A1 or the Javelin , an automatic sniper would be cool. (to add these weapons you could raise the highest level to 60)

Lv55: unlock challenges (of the three guns listed above)
Lv56: M4A1 (25kills silencer, 75kills ACOG, 150kills that sight you get in the single player)
Lv57:unlock Javelin (you now have greater chances of shooting down a helicopter)
Lv58: unlock automatic sniper
Lv59 unlock ELITE perks
Bombardor: Fragx6
Protector: Claymorex4
Death Trapper: C4x4
Track Master: extreme conditioning x2
Beserker: Juggernautx2
Invisible: not visible to UAV at all times, even with shooting without a silencer

New, golden perk. (replaces all other perks)
Hardcore Soldier
Sprint: +100%
accuracy: -75%
health: -75%
damage: +300%

Equipped with:
4 frag
4 flash
gun of choice
gun of choice
last stand

THAT WOULD BE JUST AMAZING!

Lv50: unlock prestige mode (golden desert eagle)

I think I have an Idea for future Call of Duty games, or a new franchise all together

1. COD:SWAT
2. Future combat using guns like:
Assault rifles:
HK416, XM8, M14EBR, FN SCAR,, MAGPUL MASADA, M29, LWRC IAR, LWRC M6 PSD, TAR 21, and Barrett M468
SMG:
Bushmaster Carbon 15 pistol, PDW, MP7, and MTAR 21
Sniper Rifles:
CheyTac M200 (from shooter), M110, AS50, M82, Arctic Warfare Magnum, and new barrett .416 round
Others:
Cornershot, M32, the Hammer, SWORDS, Dragonskin, Osprey, Stryker, Land Warrior, rail guns, and cloaking (hehe)
3. COD:Vietnam, most people are ready for it
4. COD:Gangsta (haha jk)
5. End of World type scenario: WW3? Collapse of civilization? Riots? Nuclear War? Killing each other? Aliens??? Very Scary!!!
6. COD:The Way of the Samurai (it could work) (Last Samurai like)
7. COD:Knights of the Round Table (k now im just being stupid)
8. More historic type battles, like Mexican American war. Repeater rifles used
9. Wild west type outlaw game, chose side of good/evil
10. Rambo anyone??? New BA character that fights in made up horrific war, stealth combat

I think the only good idea is the futuristic game, with laser weapons and invisible camuflage or something like that and it really could work. well that is what I think

I think the guys at infinity ward have done a brilliant job on this game, but the reality is players are getting bored. You are going to have to make more Guns, Perks, Prestige modes, And MORE MAPS !

Also possibly alter the names or abilities of some of the current Perks such as Juggernaut...(Maybe Solid Steel, extra Armor) Just make it that little bit more realistic and make certain guns Unable to shoot through walls Such as the weaker SMG's. Thats sure to keep the players Gaming ! Good job guys !

Thanks

Mattman2511

GREAT Game
its very fun

Awsome game but getting boring. We need more map pack if nothing else. We don't need more or less perks, we don't need different guns. I will pay for the maps that the users created on there PC's. Don't give us anything and we slowly stop playing and that one game that starts with H and ends with O will be the top dog again.

3 Words: Google Cheytac Intervention, then give me that gun.
OK it wasn't three words =D
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Firstly , great game guys , it really surpasses any FPS in the market place. There are so many things that you could add or change if you read the posts but the following would be great and easy to do!

1. A vote in the lobby to turn replays on or off.
Specialist snipers need this to survive.

2. Silencers / supressors for sniper rifles please.

3. Body armour instead of juggernaught (more realistic)

Thanks for the oppertunity to give my two cents!!

[M&B]marksaffa - Australian clan of over 100 members
- We go balls deep -

Are You Guy's Gonna Put Sum New Weapons In MultiPlayer?

More Guns Please.
And Bigger Maps.
And Get Rid Of CReek!

I think that once u get the gold cross(10 prestiege) that u could use a silencer & a red dot sight or an ACOG sight, it be cool to be stealthy but also to shoot long range, u should also make more perks. Great Job!!!
Keep it up!!!

ok well let me start with... hmmm let me think... AWESOME GAME!!!! see before this the only shooters i liked were third person now the ONLY game i play is COD4. ITS GREAT. and to all those ppl out there complaining SHUT UR PIE HOLE! but anyway, i do have some suggestions to make this game extrordinnary.
1. when you get 10 kill streak you get an airstrike but you fly the plane so you can sere what ur bombing.
2. 20 kill streak: get to fly helicopter so you shoot.
3. 50 kill streak: get a tank and a helicopter... (hehehe)
4. 60 kill streak: get 3 NPC's who guard you and when you die hunt down your killer for 30 seconds if they dont kill him by then they just die. (if they get shot they die as other soldiers would)
5. make a map with hills will long grass for snipers, buildings with machine guns, buildings for snipers and stuff like that

alter to my last post here:
3. 50 kill streak: get a tank and a helicopter... (hehehe)
4. 60 kill streak: get 3 NPC's who guard you and when you die hunt down your killer for 30 seconds if they dont kill him by then they just die. (if they get shot they die as other soldiers would)

change this to
3. 60 kill streak: get a tank and a helicopter... (hehehe)
4. 50 kill streak: get 3 NPC's who guard you and when you die hunt down your killer for 30 seconds if they dont kill him by then they just die. (if they get shot they die as other soldiers would)

(umber of streak other way round

It's so easy to fix, hear are a couple of things you can do. If it's too hard to conceptualize.

1. If they get reported ban them from Hardcore for a month.

2. Set a parameter that if they kill within the first couple of seconds it will kill the team killer and not the intended player or players.

3. Create some new medals and give these idiots a goal to accomplish, most of them are gold crosses with nothing better to do.

4. set up a flag that highlights players that go below -200 and knock them off the server for a full day.

WHATEVER YOU DO, JUST DO SOMETHING. WE ALL PAID FOR THIS AND YOU GUYS DO NOTHING ABOUT THESE ISSUES. IF NOTHING IS DONE I PROMISE I WILL NOT PURCHASE ANOTHER COD EVER!!!!!

I was wondering if you are goig to be adding a hardcore version of ground war? Because i play with about 30 people and we love hardcore we just wish there was a larger goup for it. Thanks

Fix the enemy intel! If you pick up one with the cheats on you cant get the achievement because you can never pick it up again so you can never get the achievement Fix it..............

I just wanted to post that i got really disappointed to know Call of duty 5 is not gonna be made 4 u... and is gonna come back to WWII...that just sucks...
Anyway i wanna say as well that COD4 has been the 1st COD that i played...and it's AWESOME u really did quite a good job!!!
I'll be waitin for the next COD YOU make!!!!!
Greetings from Spain!!!!!!!

Hey guys. I am glad to have a presant game instead of a world war 2 you know it was kinda getting anoying so ya. anyways I just got started on this Web and I am now a member to we get any in side stuff. And btw you should make it so 2 or more can play COD4 on one System if you know what I mean, I think that way you would get more people on live but make it one playlist like Big Team stuff. L8er thanks!

cod4 4 its my life infinity ward untill to day i click online and dowload game settings come as usual untill i noticed it wasent going away i left it for 1 fryking hour and then i have a look and it says error so i look on the internet and finde out this has happend to thousands of people WHY HAS THIS HAPPEND?????I FELL LIKE GOING MAD!!!!!!!! so please infinityward please can u fix this and if eney one wants to add me im a level 44 5 prestig mode

yes its dunph1

Guys .... LOVE The Game (girlfriend Hates it LOL) But we all are wanting a little more... Mainly Maps ... I even think a Mapcreater would be VERY Cool Like in the Game "Far Cry" ... also on the kill streaks ... I've always though that "Callin the Dogs" would be Super Cool... Have like 3 or 4 Dogs Storm an area
Keep the Great Work coming :)

Add an option to filter matchmaking results based on country/ping time. I live in Australia, and 99 games out of 100 are played against americans, which means lag. Horrible, crippling lag.
So i have to quit the match and score a loss. Most of my losses are from leaving laggy games.

here is my issue. i was a level 55 5star and didnt want to go prestige mode. so i stayed 5 star. racked up good kills good score good acuracy until today. because out of freakin nowhere i become a level 39 silver stinkin oak leaf lt. col. and i have inherited a absolutely horrible kill death ratio of .25 on acount of i kept my 13000 deaths from before but now only have 3000 kills instead of 19000. my accuracy is no longer 16 but is 12. my score is no longer 180000 but now only like 18000. the only plus is i kept my 900 wins and dropped a good 1000 losses so i have a pretty darn good win ratio. and i kept all my challenges. but still it sucks not knowing how good im doing because of some crazy foul up that should darn well had been preventable. help me out here.

Yeh u should get more lvls n prestiges plus new maps YES and gun YES... but why the hell did people make COD5 in WW2 Medal of Honor does that now COD they should do better ones WW2 as been done a million times for god sakes im just gunna stick 2 COD4 until COD6 comes out so get new stuff etc thanks :D

How About COD - March through Time. Start WW1 for a couple missions, to WW2 for a few, then Korea, Vietnam, ending at a WW3 type game, and in Multiplayer as you rank up you get more modern weapons. From a M1 to a Rail Gun.

I'd like to see the ability to mute players in the lobby. Some players just spam their noise through the mic and it's really annoying.

It would also be nice if you could boot team killers in hardcore.

please add something for the guys with golden guns cause I got the M60 M10 and Dragunov I don't get anymore of an advantage!

like a perk or gold knife, maybe gold grenades

yeah thats not gunna hapin but add something!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i wanna know when the new perks are coming out and when the new everything is coming out

please add a famas its amazing

i want a new shotgun

i also want a new gigantic map and a new tiny map

custonilise your camo for your self and your body and scrap jugernAuT its turd and make it realistic by body armour. a perk what makes the singshot guns go fast because i get killed of rapid fire controoler all the time

If someone could tell me why PS3 didnt get chinatown kilhouse broadcast or any of the other new maps because i like them but i cant play on them because i have a PS3 so if someone could tell me why the PS3 players didnt get these new maps

IF any one want to contact me in any way i play on PS3 and my username is SLAYER232

The game is great one problem is team killers.We need a vote to kick button.For example when at the statis screen in the middle of a battle a small message would appear at the the top right of the screen #of votes need to kick so and so and if they are kicked twice from the twice they cant get back into the same lobby or join in progress of the people in match.

also add TEAR GAS. you can press down on the directional pad to put on the gas mask but your vision will be divided into two circles like you have a gas mask on.

You guys should make it so online and local multiplayer you can put a silencer on snipers but, make it so you have to earn it by enough headshots or something.

I play this game for at least 3 hours a day so i really hope you guys do this. : ) I LOVE CALL OF DUTY 4!!

P.S. YOU also should make a CREAT A CLASS for local multiplayer. : D THNX for reading!!!!

you should make it so like.. theres a 4 perk thing so like... make it so theres perk 1, perk 2, perk 3, and perk 4. and perk 4 would have TEAR GAS like the other person wrote, and other things in it.

you guys should make a perk that makes it so you can use 2 scopes on a gun, like red dot sight with a silencer or acog with a silencer. = )

i really hope you do this!! PLZ!!!!

you should make it so you can choose like gillie suits and like snow suits and desert suits...

PLZ!!

you should make a FAST RUN perk...

PLZ!!

you should make instead airstrikes and helicopters, 3 kill streak: call in the attack dogs for 30 seconds, 5 kill streak: radar for 30 seconds, 10 kill streak: bullet proof vest for 30 seconds(but if get shot in head you die and when you respawn you dont have it anymore.

PLZ!!! DO THIS!!!

you should make a playlist of music with rock, and metal. like: Metallica, Megadeth, kansas, america, acdc, etc.

i really hope you do this!! = )

again, i really hope you do the 2 scopes with like a silencer and a red dot sight or acog scope with silencer...

PLZ!!

you guys should make it so we can make some maps again cuzz i REALLY want to!!!

PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ

P L Z!!!!!!PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ!!!

P L Z

c'mon!! preattly please with a cherry on top?!?!?!?!?!?!

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It's too bad you couldn't design a little better. CoD4 has the potential to be great but falls short. If you employed someone who understood the genre everyone would be better off.

I'd really like to see some of the cod 2 maps updated and put on cod 4 as it was so fun watchin every 1 who hadn't played cod 2 runnin round without a clue what the map was like! other than that only sum server updates so there are none of those annoying connection interupted messages and so we could have larger games with more players. everyone on ps3 feels we get looked over and getting our online matches with as little lag as possible would be apreciated, :)

ya that would be cool having cod 2 maps on cod 4... good idea...

we need more perks... well we dont NEED more perks... we just REALLY want more... : )

c'mon give us new perks!!! lol =) PLZ!!

The thing that is pointless for Cod4 online mode is
nightvision google
i bet less than 1% OF PEOPLE use them.
We need a make like overgrown(atleast something with ghille suits) and no street light or any thing execpt stars and a full moon.
then it would be hard to see where you r unless you have night vision googles and it would be even harder if people are laying in grass to see them

i think the night vision goggles are pretty useful when your tv has glare...

New prestiges, new perks, double attachments/triple attachments AND CUSTOM MAPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Plus Javelin, Stinger, etc. M21 Supressed like on missions, and finally get rid of multiplayer glitches.

EVERYONE GETS OUT OF THE MAP ON BACKLOT IN 2 SECONDS, all you afto do is spawn on OpFor, go onto the bin and jump over the wall, there, out of the map. An invisible barrier would be better :D

And claymores should be more effective, on Hardcore you should afto set claymores up like you do in real life.

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Updates like this would be awesome! And make Call of Duty 4 even better!

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Hey, I was thinking it would be awesome if you guys had like weekly challenges for the game that would increase in difficulty with each prestige, and give you more experience for completing them. Something along the lines of, "Win a Free-For-All match by only using knife kills." You know you like it :]