are there any good PC Multiplayer FPS games that respect the sniper?

[Navaros]

this is what i really hate about FPS games. in most of them, the devs intentionally make sniper rifles royally suck. just because people who suck at the game would whine about getting owned by snipers if the devs made the sniper rifles be realistic and worth using during actual multiplayer games.

here is a quote from an actual game designer of the Enemy Territory game:

It's a bit of a cliché that 'Realism' is necessarily no fun, but it certainly wasn't any fun to be owned by rifles at long range when you're packing a pistol-calibre SMG and can't even reach them. Also, we wanted the Covert Ops to be a sneaky killer class, not an outright sniper perforating helmets from the other side of the map. So we messed with the accuracies. As with any compromise, the result is a "least-bad" solution rather than a perfectly consistent everyone's-happy outcome. But them's the breaks, alas. : }

i find this disturbing attitude to be prevalent pretty much across the whole industry.

i hear in Call of Duty the sniper rifles were originally good but then the devs patched them into crap due to the mass whinings of people who got killed by snipers.

so i ask you PC FPS multiplayer game enthusiasts: are there any good PC Multiplayer FPS games that respect the sniper?

if not, do you think there are any coming out on the horizon?

this "nerf the sniper" mentality is an outrage and needs to be abolished