Quote Originally Posted by Vahlnir View Post
I think the issue is that the sounds weren't even around long enough for them to get an accurate gauge of player reception. Clearly this was a decision made exclusively at the top, probably by Yoshi P himself. I don't recall ANYONE asking for this change. There were more than a few unnecessary changes and questionable decisions made early on though, all of which I question to this day.
There were people who were complaining about it in the early 5.0 days. Mostly on the explosions being too soft and needs to be louder. I remember on twitter someone asked soken directly to change the SFX for gunbreaker and soken responded with ok and bam 5.01 it was changed. So, yeah...