and quickscoping gets rid of the balance that snipers are supposed to have, their big weakness is supposed to be that they aren't effective at long range, quickscoping gets rid of that weakness and makes the guns unbalanced

I've really never saw a game which balenced the sniper rifle since they usually make other bullets from guns really weak since you can spray and snipers one hit kills since limited ammo and long reloads so if there is a limited amount of people you could just run around and one hit kill everyone while the machine gun requires a longer time to kill and have alot of accurate placements of the bullets while the sniper only needs one accurate placement.

Actually one game I played balenced the sniper rifle well(actually in the game it was your hand) by having it where if you didn't scope in it would barely do damadge and you needed to "charge" the shot by scoping in for about 5 seconds to get it to max power.

In every gun fight a machine gun has the advantage, you can easily take out a quickscoper unless he has the quickest reactions ever. I don't see why many people complain about quickscoping it's harder than using a regular gun. Snipers only have 1 shot to kill someone if he misses then he's most likely dead.

Machine gun, because it's shooting pretty much in every direction (like some 30 degrees or something) and it shoots a lot more bullets then a sniper rifle so......... yeah.

Sniper rifle because I am more conservative with my ammo.

depending very much of the gameplay of the game.
the shooters i used to play. usualy had both and were balanced because people were moving around alot and you always had to watch your back. you couldn't just sit somewhere for 30 sec or more sniping people (or even 15) the sniper (and about 2 others) were used for long range shots/battles. and the closer the enemy was. the more spray weapons came to hand.
all (14) weapons had their own weak and strong points and needed different tactics.

in most games today i would choose the sniper. it will be like duckhunt =P

Machine gun all the way. Spray and pray is the way to play!!!!!

Personally, I like machine guns. they are better in every way exept for accuracy.

Machine gun, due to the fact that I am terrible at sniping and staying in one place.

you guys are crazy sniper beats the assault rifle no problem. Get like a Barette 50 call i could kill you from a mile or two away and you couldnt do **** with a assault rifle

I think both are awesome, and fun to use.