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TheGreatMightyPoo · Mar 26, 2012

Sucks that he split.

geebee · Mar 26, 2012

pnn said:
...to join DICE and work on BF4.

Hell no!

Cat Party · Mar 26, 2012

That is definitely the tone of someone who is not pleased.

NHale · Mar 26, 2012

He probably got tired of kids always tweeting him to fix the problems with COD X after posting a picture of his daughter on twitter...on a Sunday.

FoneBone · Mar 26, 2012

CFMOORE! said:
super senior douche was Noah Heller. Not Bowling. It depends on what the poster meant. We're both right. He ISN'T the douche, but he is the one who called the other a douche.

I'm pretty sure that being the one who called heller the douche was what he meant... and that was some petty, childish bullshit on Heller's part.

Vilam · Mar 26, 2012

Doubt he goes to Respawn, all the people that were going to jump from IW to head there did so awhile ago.

snoopeasystreet said:
"This game needs more weed references"

:lol

TemplaerDude · Mar 26, 2012

Amazing how you guys can infer so much tone from a tweet.

throwawayname · Mar 26, 2012

Fast Capcpom, better hire that guy to get them COD sales!!!!

Lunchbox · Mar 26, 2012

gameover activision

next call of duty is bomba guaranteed. i dont know how much you know about social media hypemen, buy this is HUGE. the call of duty audience will be in an uproar over this.

thetrin · Mar 26, 2012

What's the story behind why everyone dislikes Bowling? I didn't follow the drama.

Haunted · Mar 26, 2012

"Creative Strategist" is the emptiest title I've ever heard. And I've seen some corporate bullshit titles over the years.

Seda · Mar 26, 2012

Major negative vibes from his tweet.

winstano · Mar 26, 2012

From Brian Crecente on Twitter:

Long time face of Call of Duty, Robert Bowling quit today, Activision confirmed to Vox Games.

Gav47 · Mar 26, 2012

pnn said:
...to join DICE and work on BF 2143.

Sure, that'd be cool.

Mr. Enigma · Mar 26, 2012

thetrin said:
What's the story behind why everyone dislikes Bowling? I didn't follow the drama.

He's got a well-documented history of lying to the community and just being a general PR douche.

darkside31337 · Mar 26, 2012

It's utterly amazing that this guy is trending worldwide right now. Pretty crazy stuff.

Roxas · Mar 26, 2012

Just a PR man for the company, who cares

Seda · Mar 26, 2012

thetrin said:
What's the story behind why everyone dislikes Bowling? I didn't follow the drama.

Because he's the face of Call of Duty?

If there's some other reason, I don't know of it. He always seemed to be a pretty decent guy to me.

AnEternalEnigma said:
He's got a well-documented history of lying to the community and just being a general PR douche.

Was unaware.

Wario64 · Mar 26, 2012

TemplaerDude said:
Amazing how you guys can infer so much tone from a tweet.

Every character counts on Twitter

FoneBone · Mar 26, 2012

TemplaerDude said:
Amazing how you guys can infer so much tone from a tweet.

There's a lot you can get from phrasing and syntax. It's not ridiculous to infer certain things.

kuYuri · Mar 26, 2012

Considering the bullshit he goes through, he has a right to be a douche at this point.

TemplaerDude · Mar 26, 2012

Wario64 said:
Every character counts on Twitter

And when you can only use 140 characters it's not a lot of room to say everything you want to say after what you need to say.

PIMPBYBLUD · Mar 26, 2012

Corran Horn said:
Never really liked the guy after MW2 stuff but the way he says that he resigns reminds me of The Office when Michael declares bankruptcy for some reason lol

pargonta · Mar 26, 2012

if not negative feelings, i think he was trying to succinctly explain his departure from the brand, the dev company, and the pub company.

to do that on twitter with no silly abbreviations and with 6 or so characters still leftover to use... pretty good.

eek5 · Mar 26, 2012

Hey You said:
So both Community Manager's at Treyarch & Infinity Ward are gone. Do they know something we don't?

You'd leave too if your job was to respond to 12 year olds' tweets telling you to eat shit and die all day.

Makoto · Mar 26, 2012

geebee said:
Hell no!

I think he's better than zh1nt0.

subversus · Mar 26, 2012

Makoto said:
I think he's better than zh1nt0.

you take it back.

MG310 · Mar 26, 2012

Corran Horn said:
Never really liked the guy after MW2 stuff but the way he says that he resigns reminds me of The Office when Michael declares bankruptcy for some reason lol

Hah, my exact thought when I read it.

Syph Medwes · Mar 26, 2012

KePoW said:
Going to Respawn?

My first thought as well.

mysticwhip · Mar 26, 2012

Lunchbox said:
gameover activision

next call of duty is bomba guaranteed. i dont know how much you know about social media hypemen, buy this is HUGE. the call of duty audience will be in an uproar over this.

It's Treyarch's year. Also, If IW losing half it's staff didn't affect MW3's sales, I really doubt losing a community manager will cause much of an uproar. Some people will complain, sure but that will blow off extremely quickly. The most that will happen is that the people who don't enjoy IW's installment on 2013 or the sales decline a bit, they'll blame it on the loss of Robert Bowling(lol).

TangoAlphaLima · Mar 26, 2012

Vilam said:
Doubt he goes to Respawn, all the people that were going to jump from IW to head there did so awhile ago.

Except Respawn probably didn't need a Community Manager until now, with their unnamed title rumored to be released in one year.

CFMOORE! · Mar 26, 2012

Syph Medwes said:
My first thought as well.

doubt they'd have him. if he had balls he would have joined them way back during the exodus. instead he stayed with the safe choice.

KaiserBecks · Mar 26, 2012

What a beautiful day. I hope he'll be a creative strategist in another industry, preferably an industry I've never heard of. Knowing that I won't see that lying jerk promoting another CoD ever again actually makes me looking forward to playing MW4 some day (maybe even with dedicated servers!). And that says a lot.

zlatko · Mar 26, 2012

He's a good dude it seems.

Maybe DICE money hatted him for BF series?

D_prOdigy · Mar 26, 2012

Thanks for all the creativity in CoD, good sir. Good luck on whatever venture you take up next.

Booshka · Mar 26, 2012

TemplaerDude said:
Amazing how you guys can infer so much tone from a tweet.

thisisneogafdude.jpg

Arment · Mar 26, 2012

I remember when he was hired right between the CoD2 and CoD4 transition. I didn't envy him of his job to deal with the players then. Unfortunately that's right when CoD started sucking so I always did attribute him with that.

Best of luck I guess.

The Faceless Master · Mar 26, 2012

Makoto said:
I think he's better than zh1nt0.

why set the bar so low?

alr1ght · Mar 26, 2012

Imagine talking to youtube commenters all day long. That's probably what he went through.

Danny 117 · Mar 26, 2012

D_prOdigy said:
Thanks for all the creativity in CoD, good sir. Good luck on whatever venture you take up next.

Sean · Mar 26, 2012

NHale said:
He probably got tired of kids always tweeting him to fix the problems with COD X after posting a picture of his daughter on twitter...on a Sunday.

Dunno how he managed to put up with the Call of Duty audience for all these years. That shit is enough to drive a man insane. From taking a quick look at his trending topic on Twitter, here are a few tweets:

DaIlladelph
Thank god that Robert bowling faggot quit he ruined call of duty.

xXiiTZBRANDONXx
@fourzerotwo FUCK ROBERT BOWLING HE CANT FUCKIN MAKE A GOOD GAME

PratikBhupendra
Robert Bowling gone hopefully cod gets better. The fuck cunt !!!

tipperarylad
FUCK U ROBERT BOWLING...GO DIE IN A HOLE

slycooper995
yes suck it you motherfucking assfuck i hope you fucking die robert bowling you

kuYuri · Mar 26, 2012

Wish Robert would start posting on GAF again.

HotHamWater · Mar 26, 2012

Sean said:
slycooper995
yes suck it you motherfucking assfuck i hope you fucking die robert bowling you

Click to expand...

I didn't know Sly had it in him.

Foffy · Mar 26, 2012

D_prOdigy said:
Thanks for all the creativity in CoD, good sir. Good luck on whatever venture you take up next.

How much of this post is mockery?

D_prOdigy · Mar 26, 2012

Sean said:
Dunno how he managed to put up with the Call of Duty audience for all these years. That shit is enough to drive a man insane. From taking a quick look at his trending topic on Twitter, here are a few tweets:

And now I'm rooting for him.

TemplaerDude · Mar 26, 2012

Sean said:
Dunno how he managed to put up with the Call of Duty audience for all these years. That shit is enough to drive a man insane. From taking a quick look at his trending topic on Twitter, here are a few tweets:

God, what the fuck is wrong with people.

U2NUMB · Mar 26, 2012

I would love to see him over at DICE.. tired of their community manager.

Havok · Mar 26, 2012

I've always been genuinely surprised that he wasn't let go after publicly attacking an employee of his parent company over comparing two games in the same series and getting a few details wrong.

Best of luck, I guess.

burgerdog · Mar 26, 2012

AnEternalEnigma said:
He's got a well-documented history of lying to the community and just being a general PR douche.

I remember when he lied during an e3 interview where he said something along the lines of MW2 being 720p.

Seda · Mar 26, 2012

Sean said:
Dunno how he managed to put up with the Call of Duty audience for all these years. That shit is enough to drive a man insane. From taking a quick look at his trending topic on Twitter, here are a few tweets:

Wow.

Good luck on your future endeavors Mr. Bowling.

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