User blog comment:Damac1214/Back in Black - Call of Duty: Black Ops III teased, reveal trailer coming April 26th/@comment-101.170.42.158-20150409224348/@comment-1187559-20150410180123

Seems a much more valid reason. 3arc was never bad at making games, but they were making theirs while IW was at peak (after all, CoD 4 was one of the first to push the series in to the moderny/near-future setting). But I don't really like everyone going "Oh, 3arc is best" just because IW have released some bad games more recently. Especially when for 3 of their 4 games they were being called shit.