Also, it's simple logic that says that casual gamers are not going to make up the majority of online players. Because they're -casual- gamers. They're not online all the time. The people who are on all the time are the people that play a few hours a day (and I wouldn't call them hardcore), and their friends play a few hours a day, etc. Still wouldn't consider them hardcore. I'd just consider them -gamers-.
TPWW had what I would consider a few people who were pretty competitive with the CoD series. I had a list of people I played with regularly on my friend's list, and several RL friends who played regularly. To those types of people, I don't know a single one who would agree that the tube deserved to be in the game. And those are who the game's core mechanics were designed for, IMO.
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