While everybody wants to talk about the resurgence in COD 2019, I can also assure you that the best COD games ever made are the furthest thing from “dead.” In the past month in this subreddit, I have seen more posts about players flocking back to the golden age Call of Duty titles than ever before. Being someone who plays on 360 daily, switching between each of these games, the player base has nearly doubled on all of them. To be specific, I remember a couple months ago there was only 100-200 people on WAW and today there was nearly 700 when I logged on. I have no problem finding lobbies in any of these games, which I fucking love. The engine of these old games just fits like a glove dude. No slide canceling noobs and visual clutter, just smooth motion and the best gunplay.
It’s amazing these games are nearly two decades old and still pulling back plenty of players. The message is loud and clear. People are craving this style of COD that defined 2007–2012. Unforgettable campaigns, grounded atmosphere, balanced multiplayer, and amazing gunplay.
Once again, everyone wants to point at the resurgence of COD 2019 like it’s the blueprint for the future. I’ve seen many posts where the talk of the town is “SEe? ThIS iS THe StLye PeOPle WaNT FOR MW4!” I promise you guys if COD 2019 wasn’t $6 on steam right now, nobody would be playing that shit. People are playing it because it’s cheap, not because it suddenly became this masterpiece that we all remembered and loved. Give it a couple months and I promise you COD 2019’s player base will plummet. It’s not a game that deserves any type of nostalgia compared to the golden era titles anyway. People can praise 2019 all they want, but the only reason it’s getting attention is because it’s the least awful recent option to play.
A ton of us didn’t move on, this franchise walked away from what made it absolutely legendary. And now the community is dragging it back to the roots it abandoned. When a huge chunk of this subreddit is constantly posting golden era clips and more players than ever before are literally dusting off their 360s and PS3s to play games that are pushing 20 years old…that’s the real wake up call.