Robert Bowling Resigns from Infinity Ward

[NuckFuggets]

Robert Bowling (FourZeroTwo) has publicly declared his resignation from Infinity Ward and already the community acts as if a war has been won.

Today, I resign from my position as Creative Strategist of Call of Duty, as a lead of Infinity Ward, and as an employee of Activision.

— Robert Bowling ([MENTION=32993]four[/MENTION]zerotwo) March 26, 2012

Are we going through this again? Someone who has been the face of one of the most popular franchises in video games and you publicly celebrate their resignation? I love how the majority of people feel they could manage a community of several million better than Josh Olin (JD 2020) or Robert Bowling (FourZeroTwo).

This isn’t just some hobby that they did for years… this was their jobs. Day in and day out they worked to give you the best experience they could. They’re one person at a company of, I believe, thousands of employees.

They can’t control everything. They are employees at large corporation given directive from executives and management. You are absolutely out of your fucking mind if you don’t think they go to bat for the community in their meetings with what we want. But at the end of the day they are employees of a large corporation and you support what your company decides to do regardless of if you agree with it personally (so long as it’s an ethical decision).

Robert has spent 7 years being the punching bag for IW and Call of Duty. If you think you can hold a candle to the job he’s done, by all means submit your resume. I would love to see you respond to EVERY SINGLE PERSON that you claim is his job to do… quite frankly you would fail miserably if you even think that’s possible.

Done with my rant, my $0.02.

[M4 Gh0st]

Get'em Mat.<3

[iR1ZE]

This really sucks. I wonder what will happen now.

[Beardnor]

I couldn't agree with you more.
The man had a difficult job and I would wager that he was fed up with the "ethical decisions" he had to endure from the company.
IW, sledgehammer, and Activision have some large shoes to fill.

[RagingCANE]

I always thought fourzerotwo did a great job and I never blamed him for any issues MW3 had. It's sad that the faces of the franchise are being buried. Maybe Respawn will blow our minds with their first release and Maybe MW2 is as good as it gets for COD. Activision can put out anything with COD on it for years to come and it will outsell everything else but we have to wait and see where the true innovation for the next generation of consoles comes from.

[turkey head war]

402 did a great job addressing concerns as far as I am concerned. Props to the man for what he did, and I hope IW finds somebody that can do what he did.

"you can please some of the people some of the time, and give the others can die unhappy the rest of the time." - turkey head war

[F-Bobby]

So I guess this means clan ops aren't gonna get fixed anytime soon.

[Rubbr Chickin]

Sad day in my eyes. I feel as if COD has died.

[iR1ZE]

[MENTION=17687]F-Bobby[/MENTION] There is a clan op scheduled now, but Robert Bowling had nothing to do with Elite, that is Beachhead Studios

[SeaBass]

I'm sure Robert Bowling will have no issues picking up a new position quickly, and I wish him lots of luck out there. I don't know of many people that take their own personal time to address issues on twitter. Most people wouldn't even leave any type of reply, and probably leave that responsibility to a secretary. Hopefully who ever replaces Robert is as willing to work with the community as he was. Otherwise, I don't see IW lasting too long, but I'm sure they'll find a way to carry on for a while...