"Highlights a fundamental flaw in how our industry values its talent."

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A former long-time Call of Duty developer has called out Activision executives profiteering from the re-release of games like Black Ops 1 and 2, whereas the developers who contributed "blood, sweat, and tears" to make them gained nothing.

Gavin Goslin worked at Treyarch for more than 15 years as a level artist and level designer, and in a LinkedIn post reacting to low effort re-releases of Black Ops 1 & 2 this year, said: "They are printing money off of work completed over a decade ago.

"As a developer who actually worked on both BO1 and BO2, seeing these charts is bittersweet. I poured my life into those games, spending countless, brutal hours in crunch alongside an incredibly talented team to make sure they were perfect.…