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Old 12-23-2011, 12:18 PM
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Default Another "AK-74u" issue (read before you judge lol)

Now as we all know, CoD's "AK-74u" is based on an airsoft gun. But the issue I'm bringing up here is how it's classified on the page under the in-game name. We have several pages where airsoft stand-ins are classified separately from the real steel that they're standing in for (The Hurt Locker comes to mind). My question is shouldn't the AK Beta F (or whatever it's called) be classified the same way under its actual name?
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Old 12-23-2011, 02:30 PM
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Now as we all know, CoD's "AK-74u" is based on an airsoft gun. But the issue I'm bringing up here is how it's classified on the page under the in-game name. We have several pages where airsoft stand-ins are classified separately from the real steel that they're standing in for (The Hurt Locker comes to mind). My question is shouldn't the AK Beta F (or whatever it's called) be classified the same way under its actual name?
I believe the general logic is that the quote-unquote name allows it to be looked up easily, while also showing it's a made-up name (and in a real sense also a made-up gun since no JG AK Beta F that fires real bullets has ever existed). It's only based on the AK Beta-F (increasingly less so with each iteration, too), so it makes more sense to call it by it's fictional name in quotes to make it easy to look up rather than the name of the toy gun the artist had on his desk when he was designing it.
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