After abruptly leaving developer Infinity Ward in late March, former Call of Duty creative strategist Robert Bowling is opening a game development studio called Robotoki.Speaking to Game Informer through e-mail today, Bowling said the decision to form his own company began immediately after resigning from his long-time position with Activision.
"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.
"We have a lot to learn on how to treat talent.* *Coughcrapovisioncough*.
Good for him.
I wonder if he is gonna try to start a new shooter franchise to compete with Call of Duty
Sounds like he got tired of being Activision's whipping boy. Good for him.
good he was the best part of activision
I'm really happy for him. After having to put up with Activision management and the COD community for all those years, he deserves this.