User blog comment:Bovell/Rumor: Battlefield 3 outselling Modern Warfare 3 at GameStop/@comment-3129470-20110701093818/@comment-70.30.55.73-20110702232123

If only Moneyvision didn't do the following things: Buy IW right after COD1 came out. In 2005, they wanted big bucks from Microsoft to make a game for the Xbox 360, so they forced IW to make COD2 on it, which received lower review scores than on PC. Because of their impatience, Moneyvision forced Treyarch to make COD3 and release it one year later, which got review scores as bad as COD: Finest Hour. Moneyvision imposed a strict rule that IW is not allowed to work on a project unrelated to COD. Get themselves in trouble with West and Zampella because of royalties. Force a newly formed company to already work on MW3. Force Raven Software and Sledgehammer Games to help IW work on MW3. Finally, hire Bobby Kotick as CEO of Activision.