The Technomicon

Over the weekend, Josh Olin at Treyarch commented on Twitter that quick-scoping would be “nerfed” in the next Call of Duty game, Black Ops, which ships November 9. Naturally, as with anytime you tell a nerd that things aren’t going to go exactly the way they want it to, there was something of a public outcry. It reached a point where Treyarch opened up a poll on their official forums, asking the community what they think. The result was less than surprising. Actually, I take that back. Part of it was surprising, that being the amount of people who rallied against quick-scoping. I honestly thought this would be a pro-QS landslide.
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