Because its not Halo. (Destiny)

by TheeChaos , Thursday, January 14, 2016, 15:01 (3476 days ago) @ Cody Miller

With the Low TTK, especially with pulse rifles and scout rifles being reliably decent, no one would use Snipers. I know what you are thinking, "EXACTLY". Don't be selfish just because you can't snipe. I agree that they do not fit their role well. Long range sure, but they are unintended-ly deadly up close. This goes to ADS speed. With Snapshot and the general speed of ADS in Destiny, it allows for this. Most games would counter this by making it take longer to scope in. HOWEVER, again, with the low TTK (its low IMO for the speed of the game) this would make them useless.

I like sniping alot. It feels rewarding getting really good snipes, up close, far away, anywhere really. I know it can be irritating. But so are shotguns. At least when I get sniped in a crazy way, I can almost always say, well that guy is good and earned it. When I just get shotgunned from stupid ranges, i tend to have a more negative reaction, because my 3 year old daughter could pull a positive K/D with a shotgun (exxaggerattttionnn).