I said streaks are unbalanced in pubs as well, but people accept them because they are fun to use. I said that several posts ago.
I was stating the difference between gun and streaks. I was not specifically talking about the bizon. The competitive community asks the devs to modfiy the guns because guns are necessary to play the game. Each gun that has to be banned eliminates diversity.
How did they know if was op before the game was out? The point I was making is that the pub community often times agrees with the gun changes the competitive community wants to make.
I understood what you were saying about the devs being on your side not necessarily meaning you are correct. In the case of the bizon, they specifically went back and looked into it and decided that it was not balanced compared to other smg's. I have said many times that public matches were not made to be balanced. They were made to have some degree of balance(that is mainly the guns and most perks), but also allow new players to get kills and have fun. However, I don't see any issue with the devs attempting to balance them by nerfing the bizon.
No, I was not cherry picking BO2 and Ghosts. I was referring to Black Ops 1 and on. Look up the stats on the bulldog and m27. A gun being commonly used does not mean it is op.
I have proved my point that the devs are not catering to the competitive community. Feel free to disagree with the bizon being nerfed, but IW is doing it.