I can relate to diabz though. Blasphemy is going on since the last 2 updates and it's truly saddening and infuriating at the same time, if you are a quaker to the core, almost on a religious level.
In the long run, id might lose more players than it acquires - precisely because of the betrayal of the loyal and old-school player base (and the utter ignorance towards them) which kept the title alive for 15 years.
I doubt that newcomers will stay for long. In pub, with this loadout-unified ammo-etc. bs, it's even easier to rape lesser players to other galaxies than before. It's the first day of the Steam release and I already encountered a few "I'm not gonna play this shitty game ever again" comments from brand new accs, after sitting with 1-2 frags and 50 deaths in the utmost bottom of the score tab. They won't find instant gratification here, quite the opposite; instant roflstomp for quite a time - and they will move on to some shiny and easy title. It's not '96-'00 nowadays, when people wouldn't care and just played for the pure sake of it. We have a CoD-BF generation since then.
Maybe not. My review currently isn't on top anymore but at the bottom of the first page. I think they have a system in place to make sure it's not always the same reviews getting all the exposure.
Just link your other account if you're scared CMSS, by the way you should open a group and recrute all the OPTICZ xxX360Xxx COD guys from the Ghost, MW, and Black Ops hubs, you'll have a sick QL Clan with MLG players only