http://www.oxm.co.uk/article.php?id=6894
Gosh. It looks like Infinity Ward is getting a bit cross about the hype around Treyarch's latest entry in the Call of Duty series. Community Manager Robert Bowling has posted a particularly angry rant on his official blog about producer Noah Heller, saying his statements about the game are "bullshit" and he should stop talking about it. And the language gets worse.
Responding to Heller's recent interview on CVG, he says:
"First of all, you didn't work on "previous Call of Dutys", so don't talk as if you're down with how / why things were designed the way they were. Second, you're completely fucking wrong."
Heller and Bowling have very different ideas about how CoD's rifles work, it seems: "I won't compare it to World at War's Bolt Actions, I can't speak to that because I don't work there. Just like you don't work here, so please stop talking about our games."
The rant stems from Bowling noticing that Heller's interviews reference Call of Duty 4 a lot. That touched a nerve, by the sound of it:
"A word of thumb I like to use is.... when promoting your game. Promote YOUR game. Don't compare it to another game, or reference what OTHER games did in the past, pitch YOUR game. I mean, you have lots of cool things you could talk about... like Nazi Zombies...."
He ends on a plea to us in the media: "Can you guys please stop interviewing this guy, talk to someone who actually works on the Dev Team at Treyarch and knows what the f**k they're talking about. Not Senior Super Douche Noah Heller from Activision - who apparently has never played the game and doesn't even work at the developer."
We'll be the first to say that we'll happily talk to Dowling about CoD for as long as he likes if he's going to be this candid. Read the whole thing on Bowling's blog.
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I'm personally disgusted by the behavior on both sides. Robert Bowling needs to start acting like a professional, something that does not include bashing your co-workers in public. Not that there are any heroes in this story: Noah Heller is the idiot who trash talked about Brothers in Arms in an interview a few months back, so if you're looking for class acts you'd be best served by skipping these clowns.
