Robert Bowling Unexpectedly Announces He is Exiting Activision [UPDATED]

Goodnight, sweet prince shitty corporate mouthpiece.

Will he be on the Bombcast?

Maybe his hover hands made him do it

lol hover hands

the less i see or hear of him the better

Maybe he saw Bobby Kotick before he had a chance to morph from the Devil into his Kotick costume?

HOLY POOP

OK.

Maybe he got sick of the Call of Duty franchise.

Is Creative Strategist (Community Manager) sort of like how Subway call their employees Sandwich Artists? 
 
fourzerotwo always struck me as either incredibly ignorant of the PC platform or he was being told what to say by Activision.

He always seems cool on the CoD Elite interview videos. What a shame he is leaving...He was growing a beard.

HE WAS GROWING A BEARD!!!!

Dat picture.

That's a hell of a photo.

Must have disagreed too much with upper management.

Who?

I'm pretty sure it has to do with MW3 being hacked.

Bowling was like:

???????????

Meh.

He's starting Hover Hands Studios.

@gorkamorkaorka said:

HOVER HANDS

Well there was no point in him joining Respawn until they had something to talk about.

I guess he got tired of all the hate mail lol. And lying to people faces about features in Call of Duty and things that were a complete lie

HOVER HANDS

<checks pockets>

<checks under bed>

Hm, can't seem to find a fuck to give

copy and paste warfare 3

Whoa

UPDATE: Activision has replied with a short statement on Bowling's exit.

"We sincerely thank Robert for his many years of service. He’s been a trusted and valued member of the Infinity Ward team. We wish him all the best on his decision to pursue future opportunities.”

Does that sound at all to you like the sort of thing a company not quite expecting this type of thing to happen might say? Read that way to me, anyway, but maybe I'm off-base.

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In a startling bit of news that pretty much just happened, Robert Bowling, the longtime creative strategist for the Call of Duty brand at Activision and developer Infinity Ward, has announced he is resigning from his current position.

No reason was given for the announcement, but the terms were absolutely clear. He stated as follows:

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.

Bowling had been with Activision since 2006, working early on in the franchise's existence as a community manager, and eventually rising up to become the most recognizable face associated with the brand. For all intents and purposes, he has been Call of Duty's primary mouthpiece since the Modern Warfare era began, especially in the time following the exit of Infinity Ward founders Vince Zampella and Jason West, who went on to found Respawn Entertainment.

We've reached out to Activision for an official statement regarding Bowling's exit. We'll update this story should they respond.