TheRussian, you must understand where a lot of the hate for armor stems from. It is not because players cannot afford to buy armor to survive, but because Pixel Gun 3D has evolved to a point where armor is a necessity and not having it restricts a player from having a fair advantage in-game.
An example of such an occurrance happening would be long ago when players were worried about The Wand more than anything. When it first came out, there were no ways to counter the weapon and it trumped most weaponry back then by a huge margin due to it's high power (being able to kill players in 3 hits) , unlimited ammo, and ability to spot players behind walls (this is partly why players now are not able to see each other's in-game name behind walls anymore). The Wand's attributes were just more advanced than other weaponry to a point where players no longer could properly defend themselves beside getting The Wand themselves. Now, at that point, Pixel Gun had become "unbalanced". Why? Because The Wand had become a necessary piece of weaponry and many matches could not be won without it.
Now, of course, The Wand and many other Wall-Breakers, for the time being, have been greatly nerfed, decreasing their usability by not including unlimited ammo or by removing the Wall-Breaker ability altogether. However, it was a long time before anything was done to fix the problem and during that time, much of the community had been sick of it. This type of sickness that now divides players into Pro-Armor and Anti-Armor is, unfortunately, the same that divided players into Wall-Bangers and Non-Wall-Bangers long ago. Yet, there is a difference between the two problems. That is whether one was essential to gameplay or not.
Wands were never essential to gameplay and many players could live without it. If Wands were removed, the gameplay would stay the same. However, the same doesn't hold true for armor. Armor has become necessary due to the growing number of weaponry that can kill those without it. Removing armor now would be catastrophic due to most weaponry being modeled to combat those with it, which would cause new and old players to constantly die from merely a few shots from weapons such as the Crystal Laser Cannon or PSR. This was caused, in part, due to Rilisoft merely considering the gameplay short-term and not long into the future. It is due to Rilisoft not obtaining any feedback for the idea of armor that caused this mess and, unfortunately, there isn't much of a way out of it.
So, in short,
@TheRussian and
@RiliSoft , armor has caused a great deal of hate to occurr within the Pixel Gun 3D community due to it's necessity to gameplay and that feedback for the game was never considered. Perhaps now you understand a little more why some members of the forum opposed the change so much.