People will read it.  It's not a stupid topic.  I do, however, see nerfs and buffs as an important part of the evolution of a game's fairness.  When they release the game, there are inevitably going to be flaws which need corrected, like say, a specific gun more powerful then they anticipated.  In those situations, they fix it to correct the problem, which then creates ripple effects across the whole game.

Long story short, they didn't release a perfect product, they wouldn't pretend to have done so.  They dont just look at the community comments to determine what needs nerfed and buffed, it's deeper then that.

This has been discussed b4 many of times. I hate that they keep changing the weapons around. I do want them to fix errors though like shotguns having more pellets than they should and being able to put damage on an AR.

Quit it already with the Buff/Nerf

There are still blatant balance problems that need to be adressed.  There are entire weapon classes that are outgunned in all situations by others.  And some other weapons are so poor compared to others in the same class that the bad weapons wight as well not exist.  It is obvious that things need to changed to promote weapon diversity and fairness between and within classes.

One of the main goals of mw3 was balanced weapons.  Robert Bowling was pushing progressive and constant weapon balance.  That is part of the reason for the hotfix system.  Changes to weapons take very little time and can be implemented with almost no overhead.  When a clear imbalance arises there will be rebalances to even out performance.

I am positive that poor netcode does more damage to mw3 than actively trying to make the game better through weapon and perk balance.

So buffing a few of the shotguns & LMG's & nerfing the effectiveness of the Akimbo FMG 9's was a big mistake?

I don't get how it "ruins" the game. The LMG buff certainly improved and encouraged more playability with using them. I know the USAS-12 gets used alot more than it was before the shotgun patch.

Dead Man's Nuke is getting a nerf soon, how glad am I to see the range of Dead Man's Nuke reduced so it doesn't kill me from a considerable range.

Are you going to tell me a gamebreaking element of MW2 like One Man Army, Danger Close spam of grenade launchers didn't require a nerf? (if say the devs decided to go back & fix some of the issues from previous COD titles of course).

I welcome changes to a couple of the weapons. It's not like it's going to negatively impact you.

they "fix" weapons issues, but they can't fix the lag problems... IW doesn't have their priorities in the right order.

Lag & matchmaking problems is more difficult than balancing a couple of the weapons.

Weapons in general can be improved by changing a few values in the code.

And by the way, there have a numerous number of connectivity title updates & hofixes since the game launched. I support lag & matchmaking fixes first but to state that "IW don't have their priorities in the right order" is ignorant.