What do I think?  Good for him.  First of all he sucked at his job, he needs to do something he's better at.  Second, I believe his job severely damaged his mental health.  Just read one day's worth of the tweets he gets and read about the death threats people sent him in the mail (and I don't blame people for the rage either, MW2 and 3 have both been a mockery of FPS) but I bet you the guy is gonna have PTSD for the rest of his life after dealing with the COD community.  So i'm glad he's relieved from all the verbal abuse.  But god save the next IW community manager if IW never starts listening to the community...

First jd_2020 and now fourzerotwo.

Hopefully some one who backs up the PC community will take his place.

But this is happy day.

I get a kick at how this discussion has been pushed to the least used section of this forum, it's almost like they don't want this front and center.

At least while Robert was here there was some connection with the development team and it at least seemed like our voice was heard.

Eh, I wish him better luck at his next job and maybe that he will not have to deal with so many entitlement minded individuals as that plagues the CoD series. Perhaps in his next job he will be taken more serious and given a better chance at doing what he can do. I do not blame him at all for leaving. I know if I was in his shoes and had to deal with all the shiat he has been through I probably would have thrown in the towel sooner than this and probably done so in less than a polite way as he has done.

mralpharogue,

the fact that you blame the PC gamers for console hacking and the all-around sh*tty-ness of the console CoD community and the brokeness of MW3 indicates that you are both 12 years old and not a long-time CoD player.

Let me let you in on something:  If it wasn't for PC gamers, you wouldn't have COD at all.  COD started out as a PC-only game.  In fact you would even have your derpbox 360 if it wasn't for the original PC gamers.  I myself play the derpbox, unfortunately, but I have my facts straight, and PC players have nothing to do with console hacking.  In fact I'd like to see a citation for "99% of all hacks come from the PC community" - that has to be the derpiest thing I've heard all day.  And look at BF3 - that game has far more PC players than console players, and it's hack free.  All BF games have been.

I've played since COD3, much longer than you, and I know exactly what Robert Bowlhead does (or did).  He once had the title of "Community Manager."  His main job was PR, communicating with the players, and announcing important updates like patches and DLC.  He eventually went on to being Creative Strategist.  His new job description didn't exactly require him to do any of the old community manager responsibilites he once had, but he chose to still interact with the community on twitter, although he completely dropped forum communication.  A Creative Strategist is supposed to take in feedback and bring it to developer team meetings and advise the dev team on the general direction to go with the game.  The CS doesn't get to make all the final decisions but his voice is still important when choosing the creative direction of the project and making major creative decisions.

Bowlhead did not fulfill his job responsibilities and he has made this clear numerous times by demonstrating that he doesn't actually know how his own game works and gets some pretty major facts wrong.  He has claimed that the Hybrid Sight requires the 2 Attachments proficiency, he has claimed that all shotguns shoot 9 pellets after the buff (when in fact only 3 of the 6 shoot 9 pellets) and he also said SitRep would counter Dead Silence, among many other facts he had completely wrong about his own game.  If you don't know major things like that, that means you weren't involved in those creative decisions.

All in all, RB was a whipping boy, a mule who simply did exactly whatever the Activision execs told him to do and say.  He stepped out of line a few times and pissed off those Atvi execs, and now he's gone.

Go back to your corner where you can hurr and durr some more.

youtube.com/watch?v=JfInJP5ehA4

People quite there job every day. Only because he's known it big news.
Only thing I've to say is

People talking about this over on the MS forums also. http://forums.xbox.com/xbox_forums/xbox_360_games/a_d/call_of_duty_modern_warfar e_3/f/2315/t/229507.aspx

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My thought are on that page. For some reason it wont let me cut and paste it and it would take WAY too long to rewrite it again as it was tl;dr in teh first place. But its full of usefull thoughts and COD history.

You know there are a lot of things I don't like about MW3, like the small maps, the excessive junk on the maps, under powered explosives, the lag (although of late that has actually improved for me) and akimbo weapons to name some. But the hate for Bowling was over the top. I did contribute to that when I posted how useless claymores and bettys were and then stated that was another Bowling failure. Regardless of what I thought about the game I should have never made it personal and I am actually sorry about that. The game has flaws but sometimes that's what happens when you try something different. And from my over 20 year working career I have learnt that it is infinitely easier to criticize someone's idea than it is to defend your own. They got some of the balance wrong but it's a game. Let's not lose perspective here and make what we don't like about the game into personal attacks.