User blog comment:Argorrath/Black Ops II Vengeance DLC Map Pack Preview/@comment-1263839-20130619143332/@comment-1263839-20130619192545

Not really... I didn't start hearing "omg original character sucks" en mass (obviously there is the odd complaint) until late Black Ops.

I personally got sick of them by Ascension, but by that point I'd given up on hoping that Treyarch could do anything with them.