User blog comment:Flamesword300/Quickscoping is not dead- its changed/@comment-1263839-20130908123421/@comment-1263839-20130909070744

@Flame: I wasn't referring to it being easy (though, they were anyway), but it is completely unbalanced to "be on target" at close range nearly all the time, which the Snipers of MW2, MW3 and Black Ops II all let you do and in fact encouraged. Sure, you might need a perk or two to support it but it was a tactic commonly used to great success.

Or perhaps I should rephrase this, just because Sniping is easy doesn't make it OP (see World at War, Black Ops 1, CoD 4), but it can be if exploited (see MW2, MW3 and Black Ops II). It's undeniable that all of the snipers of the latter three games are designed to be useful in a close quarter combat scenario, otherwise they would have the same limitations of the former three games, that is not one shotting if it hits anywhere above the belt.