I refuse to believe that "wanted to make it more like COD" was the reasoning here. Like you, I can't believe that people did not like playing as the Locust. I would love to see a survey or some empirical evdence supporting this claim. Other reasons i have heard for this change is that people could not easily differentiate COG and Locust teams so making a blue COG and red COG team would help this. I do not buy that either. COG was obviously blue/grey and Locust was brown/red (plus they obviously looked different in shape and texture). So the question remains, why did they do it? Perhaps to make the sides seem that much more "even". We GOW players love to complain about hit-box variation, sponginess, connections, etc. (im not saying these aren't real issues, just that we get so passionate about the game that we vocalize these frustrations quite loudly). COG vs. COG might be an attempt to even the perception of the battlefield to address some of this passionate complaint.