User blog comment:Flamesword300/Quickscoping is not dead- its changed/@comment-1263839-20130908123421

Sniping was not balanced in MW2. The whole point of Sniping is to have a long range advantage whilst being vulnerable if one managed to get close. That's what made WaW's (and to a lesser extent, CoD 4 and Black Ops') snipers so good. MW2's snipers, mostly because of Quickscoping, granted the player the ability to go toe-to-toe with somebody with say, a Shotgun at point blank range and win.