The very idea of killstreaks is absurd if you look at it in terms of game balance. If somebody is already doing quite well how does it make any balanced sense to reward them with extra essentially stat padding free kills? Killstreaks make no more sense than deathstreaks do in terms of traditional game balance. Sometimes as a developer they have to forgo true balancing for fun factor. As annoying as deathstreaks were I understand the thoughts that went into them. If you're getting your ass handed to you repeatedly within seconds of spawning, that's not much fun. Deathstreaks were a means of counteracting the mess that killstreaks and poor spawn systems created. Basically talking about true balance in a COD game is a bit laughable since a truly balanced game isn't much fun to play, at the end of the day that's what COD is all about.
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