Skull132

Uh, no. First off, you got the two weapons mixed up. The Mk20 is the F2000, while the TRG is the Tavor. Also, the Tavor is used by the Israeli army as an assault rifle, and there is a version of it with a full length barrel in the game. Both are bullpup, thus they are shorter, and better at CQB, but still should have full, AR length, barrels.

In ArmA games, there really aren't 'inferior' and 'superior' weapons. Both guns are accurate in the sense that the bullet will ALWAYS go where the muzzle is pointed (specially since they both fire the same round), the only differences being in fire rate, recoil, weapon size, weight. So instead of trying to find out, objectively, which gun is better, why don't you play with both? Play with them, and find out which gun works better for you, in what situations.

I'm not sure as to how many have already said this, but it boils down to the server/community you're playing on/with. I play on servers run by MILSIM groups, usually on domi, and over the past 4/5 days I have only seen one sniper. Everyone else has had ARs. Also, the snipers have a downside in my opinion: they're slow. I will not take a sniper rifle to an assault, because when you play aggressively, engagement distance is going to be around 300 metres. If you start fiddling around with a bolt-action AM rifle at that distance, while facing down a fireteam of enemy, you are most likely going to end up dead. It's all about your own game mentality, and how you play. You would select your weapon according to that, and if you want to skirmish with the enemy, then yes, a sniper rifle is the best option, but not for forcing your way into a compound.

I honestly don't think that it would change all that much. Yes, DayZ is bringing in more money to BI thanks to the increased game sales, but the communities of DayZ and ArmA 2 proper appear to be two very different communities. So I don't think that anything much would change if DayZ would go stand-alone.

I wonder if the EU court will have anything to say about this. Then again, I'm not sure if they can say anything about it :/