Robert Bowling exits Call of Duty, Infinity Ward, Activision

I guess he was a Battlefield man.

I guess he got fed up of being a punching bag for the God awful community.

Will he join Respawn ?

No chance, Respawns community manager has tits. You really don’t want Robert Bowling when you can have tits.

@3 it’s an idea. I didn’t want to speculate in the article but I would be very interested to see that happen.

roberts awesome

Man, sad to see him go. I’m not a fan of CoD as a serie at the moment, but you gotta respect what the man had to do. He was the community manager for a game that generates billions (of dollars and retards ). That’s not an easy task!

Cheers to the man for all his hard work. So sad that he leaves at a time where CoD is turning more and more into a cash cow for Activision, who doesn’t want to stop the infernal dev cycle.

Seriously, to be honest that guy had cheap PR talk since the beggining. I hope he will not go somewhere at all in the industry.

But at the same time i remember an interview where he sits with one of the sledgehammer staff’s and he says: “I’m Creative Strategist of Call of Duty” and SH dev says: “for now!” he laughed and Bowling, ehm, pretty much Not.

Who gives a sh*t be honest!??

I have been a long time fan and player of the COD series ever since the first. My fav being the 2nd, and I still find my self going back to playing COD4 Promod as it has a lot less retards in the game than current iterations.

I remember the press conference they had where Bowling was upping how much better MW3 was going to be over the train wreck that was MW2 (yeah it sold, but it was still the worst in the series, next to COD3).

In the conference he promised that they had listened to all the complaints about overpowered killstreaks, guns, perks, glitches, poor map designs, and of course the retarded invention that is the “death streak” that rewards rubbish players. They delivered on ONE of the things he said, and that was no shotguns as secondary’s. But they still though giving people stupidly overpowered and easy to use Akimbo FMG’s (EVEN with the patch they are still overpowered). They include, dead mans hand which is basically just last stand.

Heck even Treyarch produce better games than IW do now. Black Ops had very few flaws and was an excellent game overall. They pushed the boat out and tried new things with the series.

Dolphin dives, custom emblems/titles, more balanced guns, interactive maps, dedi servers for PC, theatre mode, combat training… the list goes on. Yeah sure a few things could of been better some of the kill streaks were stupid, and last stand still got in there. But still it just seemed like a mix between COD4, and W@W which isnt a bad thing.

Then MW3 came along and what do we have, a game the rewards retards, and rubbish players. You do not increase player skill if you give them just an easy mode to play. That is why games have harder modes. Why can’t this be the same for MP.

GOOD BYE Bowling I hope you go and make some crappy cell phone games from now on and be done with the fps franchise you have fu*ked it up enough.

OHHH SHIT A BUTTHURT COD FAN TAAAAKEEEEEEEEEEEEE COOOOOOVVVVVERRRRRRRRR

BLOPS was and still is a broken mess on the PC.

Cue the calls from EA the moment his resignation came out. Though the one thing I can’t help but wonder is of all times, why now? Why’d he pick now to jump ship from COD, IW, and Activision? Putting my questions aside, I wish him well, and eagerly look forward to where he might land next.

Bye Bye Super Troll

Doubt hes going to EA he owns

Fourzerotwo Media

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Respawn’s next game is probably going to get revealed this year or early next year, so it makes sense for Robert to join them as community manager since they haven’t needed him while in the initial production stages of their new game.

Soubriquet? Really? I mean, really?

You know, readers derive broader signification from exoteric use of English?

This is videogame news, not the Times Literary supplement.

As for Bowling; he’s seemed unhappy ever since Zampella and West departed. This is hardly a surprise.

Good riddance fegget!

@15 You look quite nervous. Is it because it’s a French word?

its the best thing happens to the call of duty community this year .. PC players may get some recognition

@13
according to this : http://www.linkedin.com/in/fourzerotwo
he is no longer at substreamusicpress and fourzerotwo media.

i guess infinity ward / activision realised that they didnt need a “creative strategist” after all.