I asked the same thing on Twitter. And I believe it was Candyslexia who made a huge push for it. Although i have been on Twitter and the forums for months not letting up trying to get this mode in. Just search my post about it. But I think it is only 5 min rounds and you can see the flag because they dont want to have people camping with the flag and racking up major killstreaks. Although I remember in Blops that not knowing where the flag was added a lot to the game. It made all your team work together and calling out location of enemy to find it. Made for some really intense games. I will ask on Twitter what their thoughts on this are and let ya know.

Yeah, both HQ and CTF are terrible in MW3, just go back to what you were playing before.

I'm a player that goes for flags in CTF so I WILL NEVER PLAY HC CTF LOL

I also pushed hard for HC CTF and I am disgusted how it turned out.  All that seemed to happen was people trying to spawn trap these horrible spawns in the this game.  No one was running for flags no one was playing the game mode.  It seemed like the game mode was more get 1 flag capped so we win and spawn trap and try to be "beast" and get a MOAB.  Granted yes while my clan played HC KC if someone was on a good streak we would avoid tags for the MOAB.  Although we really did not "spawn trap" as there are only a few maps that you can really get a good trap set up in KC.  The spawns and flag placement in this game is just rubbish pure rubbish.  Arkaden is played SUPER small mostly people running on the outside of the "mall" because that is the were BOTH flags are.  You can just about tube from 1 flag to the other.  Yes there are strategies for you to run through the mall to get the drop on people but its still very little action in the mall (were most of the action is on all other play lists).  There were only 3 of us on at that the so maybe it will be different when we have a whole clan.  Maybe we will turn into loser ass spawn trapers just because people will think thats how your "good" at HC - CTF.  I think I'm just upset with this game that was built up to great and turned out for a turd.  The only people that still try to defend this game is the MW2 fanboys that think there "beast" for getting MOABS while 360 quick scooping.  All I can hope for is that 3arch isn't going to try and pick up these lame fanboys with BO:2, Let them fade out with the MW series.