Well this was unexpected.
Infinity Ward community manager Robert Bowling, known as fourzerotwo, recently posted some choice words about
Activision producer Noah Heller. Specifically, Bowling asks Heller to "stop doing interviews," saying that he needs to stop comparing
Call of Duty: World at War to
Call of Duty 4 and that the game can "stand on it's [sic] own merits." Bowling then cites a "bullshit quote" from a recent CVG interview in which Heller states that previous
Call of Duty titles required several shots with bolt action rifles to make a kill and says that Treyarch has corrected this in
World at War. Responded Bowling: "WTF are you talking about?! ... 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."
Bowling concludes that
World at War has many good features and that Activision would be better off promoting them instead of comparing the game to previous titles. He notes that the media should interview someone from Treyarch that "knows what the fuck they're talking about" and not "Senior Super Douche Noah Heller from Activision - who apparently has never played the game and doesn't even work at the developer." Yowch. Soap operas aren't this good.
[Via LockoutGaming]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
11-10-2008 @ 1:38PM
Trogdor said...
Censorship is your friend...
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11-10-2008 @ 1:40PM
melloncollie said...
Shut the fuck up.
11-10-2008 @ 1:41PM
OptimumEDGE said...
Hahaha, that was priceless.
Bolt action takes one shot? Yeh f'in right. In hardcore maybe.
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11-10-2008 @ 1:44PM
Dirty said...
Oh snap!
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11-10-2008 @ 1:45PM
andyg8180 said...
pwnage??
of
BOOM headshot??
lay the smackdown fourzerotwo!!
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11-10-2008 @ 1:59PM
COD Phwoar said...
Maybe Infinity Ward are just upset that Treyarch have made a pretty good (if uber short) game.
Is this another Bungie/microsoft, Sports Interactive/Eidos franchise divorce in the making?
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11-10-2008 @ 2:26PM
Eric H. said...
He wasnt dissing Treyarch...he was dissing activision.
They even wrote that he had positive things to say about the game...
11-10-2008 @ 3:10PM
BananaBoat said...
I love fourtwozero, I hope Activision doesn't throw a hissy fit and get him fired. It takes a lot of balls to completely call out another guys bullshit, but it takes even more to call out a corporate overlords bullshit.
Noone should make the mistake of assuming that Treyarch can develop their way out of a paper bag. They started with the engine ready made from COD4, so it's not as if they put a game together from scratch like IW did. Then again, the game did turn out alright (in multiplayer, I found single player to be bland) in spite of the company that developed it, so miracles do happen.
11-10-2008 @ 2:02PM
NvM said...
And this is why Infantry Ward has my respect despite being owned by(or just gets published by?) Activion.
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11-10-2008 @ 2:04PM
Arnie said...
That was one tight bitchslap!! Ouch is all I can say.
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11-10-2008 @ 2:04PM
Nick said...
whoa.
I'm an adult. Swearing is fine.
But on a public blog?
I think some censorship might not hurt right 'bout now.
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11-10-2008 @ 3:11PM
ZEBRA NINER said...
F-bomb FTW.
You can't get enough obscenities in your internet reading. It's like cereal with no milk.
11-10-2008 @ 3:49PM
wako said...
grow the fuck up.
the internet is public, why dont you go police porn sites and tell them to censor stuff.
11-10-2008 @ 4:32PM
Nick said...
So being immature is okay?
When have there ever been topics NOT censored?
It doesn't need to be so blatant.
11-10-2008 @ 5:18PM
ZEBRA NINER said...
I get what you are saying, man. You wouldn't see the word "fuck" on CNN or Xbox.com. Not saying they should censor this stuff, but it's just not that common on a big site.
Also, why is everyone so hostile about this?
11-10-2008 @ 2:04PM
scott o. said...
why not four two zero....? muuuuch better.
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11-10-2008 @ 2:18PM
halo 3 sucks. said...
Hmmmm. im used to 360 fanboy censoring the word "cr*p"
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11-10-2008 @ 2:20PM
SadisticHam said...
Big words considering IW is owned by activision, i certainly wouldn't march into my bosses office and call him a douche. ;$
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11-10-2008 @ 2:20PM
DBoyFlex said...
Wow, amazing. Censorship is good, but reading it here means there are certainly strong feelings about the topic. wow, what a slap in the face.
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11-10-2008 @ 2:24PM
KC said...
A head shot in COD2 with a bolt action was definitely a one shot kill.
It never seems to work for me but last night I was getting killed in the COD:WAW beta with one shot from a bolt action.
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