@Shoogaboog Interesting. I also remember BFBC2 and how snipers were already a plague there. Especially 'aggressive snipers', who usually were just quite bad.
But in the end Battlefield is THE arcade shooter and what's realistically the difference between Bob who already tried to kill someone with his C4 jeep, but dies every time doing so and a sniper that's just camping a mountain and maybe once in an hour gets a kill in? They both don't add much value, the latter seems frowned upon a lot more though.
The whole 'PTFO' is also very overrated and I usually see the people with a very marginal k/d ratio, who happen to be in the middle of the scoreboard at best, spam this into the chat.
In the end BF is not a really serious game and more of a sandbox kind of thing.
DICE made it very clear too. They have eliminated virtually every possibility to make Battlefield competitive nowadays (you can't create private servers anymore, basically no support for clans - platoons don't count, gating unlocks, poor implementation of infantry-only game modes) so for me it is no surprise the game became even more of a sandbox experience than ever before.
I've played BF competively since 1942 (Clanbase nation cups, ESL ladders etc.) and the game is nothing like that anymore. I think people should accept this. The audience has changed.
So, hop on to your plane and use it as a taxi!
