Robert Bowling has been answering peoples questions on Reddit, he has now put the rumor to rest that Activison dictates the development cycles.
"We need more than iteration, we need revitalization."
You can say that again. Game has become repetitive and stale. Nothing new same and old story. The franchise also needs to move into future settings.
Call of duty franchise is like Pokemon franchise or even Madden. Every fan of the franchise want better games, better story, better graphics, but everybody else buy the crappy yearly release anyway. Why would Activision change anything to Call of Duty when it's the best selling games every year?
I'm just over CoD. Vanguard was the first CoD I didn't buy since I started playing in 2006. I don't plan on buying into the game franchise again
Robert Bowling now has a new job at Humble Bundle as the Vice President.
Remember Human Element? The class-based, zombie apocalypse game from Robert Bowling who served as the creative strategist and community manager for Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty franchise? As it turns out, Bowling’s studio Robotoki has shut down.
Shouldn't have given such a different impression of your game then. You described it as a gritty visceral apocalypse survival based on keeping the human element alive. Instead you made a cartoony Mad Max multiplayer shooter. I cannot understand what on earth happened.
Well i guess this is a good thing, what they showed and what the described was not even close to each other.
Is it really Bowling on reddit? Why wouldn't he just use his twitter?
As for dev time being dictated by Activision, I remember him saying before that he had this HUGE patch for MW2 to tweak things like Commando. But then he said it was canned because Activision said so and that it had to do with Black Ops' upcoming release. I haven't played MW2 in a while, but doesn't anyone remember a so called patch for OMA? Was that ever fixed? Because I remember Fourzerotwo blaming Activision for dropping a huge patch that they were working on.
Wish I could find it. I'm sure devs have some freedom, but to my understanding publishers in general have a lot of control over the end product as well
Thats a lie, you always have a 2 year development cycle, and it must be done by the first or second week in November. Activision currently have their hand up your rear working you like a puppet.
Lol who is he trying to fool? They don't dictate shit when it comes to time frames and anyone with half a brain knows this. As the guy above me said, go say "we're not ready for release, can we release it after Christmas" and see how much they really dictate.
Respawn made a great decision not to take this jerkoff across.. what a little corporate bitch. I understand he probably couldn't flat out say Activision control everything to do with development but he could have chosen to just not answer it instead of flat out lying to fans.
Activision probably control almost everything to do with the development hence the reason why all the talented people who worked on call of duty jumped ship to EA. Why else would these people leave such a good thing unless they felt they were unable to quench their creative thirst with Kotick breathing down their necks?
Riiight...Activision would NEVER allow a developer to release a CoD game before it was ready. Not without extensive QA testing and a beta. That would be silly.
biggest lie ever! why would we know the release time years in advance and the order of release etc if the c*** s***** devs dictated dev time