User blog comment:Damac1214/Where should Call of Duty go next?/@comment-4767172-20130414114755/@comment-3967954-20130415152438

CoD will never include two extremely similar weapons in one game for a simple reason: the weapon choices in CoD are designed to be varied. Look at games like Battlefield 3; there's tons of guns in that game and they all behave incredibly similarly. CoD prefers to vary its weapon choices, not just because of the in-game stats, but also to make it more interesting. Having multiple Kalashnikov variants in the same game, such as an AK-47 and an AK-74, would just be dull and the developers would rather use the AK-74's slot for a different weapon. In their case, probably an experimental one that hasn't been adopted by any military force.