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The developer royalties tag on WindowsForum.com collects discussion of how game creators are compensated when their past work is re-released or resold. Recent coverage centers on a former Treyarch level designer who argued that Microsoft-owned Activision is profiting from PlayStation ports of Call of Duty: Black Ops and Black Ops 2 while the original developers receive nothing. The thread frames this as a long-running debate about who should be paid when a decade-old title returns to market, and notes that no pay policy change has been announced. Expect conversation about royalty arguments, re-releases, and studio ownership rather than confirmed policy news.
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    Former Treyarch Designer Calls for Royalties After Black Ops PlayStation Ports’ $435M Sales Estimate

    A former Treyarch level designer says Xbox's parent company is profiting from his old work while the people who built it get nothing. Gavin Goslin's LinkedIn post has reopened an old argument about who should be paid when a decade-old game is re-released. The re-releases in question are the...