A gun that you can freely select and get as many times as you want, is easy to use, can kill anyone in one hit, from any distance on the map. Would anyone even bother trying to argue that this is fair in some way? I would guess that the awp is responsible for about 40-50% of all dust 2 DM kills at the moment. The game has so much more depth when everyone is running around using a variety of weapons, M4s, AKs, the scout, SMGs, etc.

Perhaps the solution is not to get rid of it completely, but to make it not so freely available. I really liked when the evil deagle was in the server, perhaps the awp could spawn at those locations, or a variation of those locations now that there are different spawn points.

Or maybe it could be selectable in the menu, but the player has to either get a certain number of kills, or die a certain number of times before they can use it again.