It's not the old COD lobbies they miss... They miss the feeling of "Becky, from maths class, not liking them" being their biggest problem.
Same deal with MMO players. They don't miss "the social aspect of MMOs", they miss the novelty of sitting around with like-minded degenerates in a cool-looking chatroom until the dungeon queue pops.
Honestly tho we have lost the social aspect of MMOs. Back when WoW came out you didn't have shit like Discord, where all communication for every game lives now. At best you had TeamSpeak but for the most part communication was done primarily in the game. Combine that with zones and quests that have you killing the same mobs for hours in an empty field and people actually chatted quite a lot more than they do nowadays. We've kind of optimized out the natural communication in MMOs and idk if we'll ever be able to get it back really.
Current MMOs still have social aspects anyway. Most people doing raids on OSRS aren't soloing them because that's fucking hard
I never played an mmo, but i played a shit ton of TF2 back in the day, and we would just play 2fort for 10 hours and talk. It was basically just a big chatroom where we shot each others and stole our intel.
They yearn for the simple times but their main memories from back then are the fun times like COD lobbies.
It’s the matchmaking that is just random and not skill based.
The screams of that camper kid that got obliterated, the screams of that one child that could not get past the pro camper. Oh how I miss hearing the explicit things some teen did to my mom.
Nowadays everyone is offended, you can’t curse and you get banned for teabagging.
Oh, and back then that guy with the cool skin earned it, and did not buy it.
I hated the screens of kids though. At least when I played, it was with my other college aged friends. Every time one of those rage kids popped up, they'd be called a."squeaker".
When you saw a dude rocking gold camo on the ak, you knew he was a headshot machine and you stood no chance
I've gotten this feeling back recently when I started playing Fragpunk. I would highly recommend it. The unranked PvP modes are chaotic, fast paced and have tons of action with crazy ability cards you can add. It's been a great change from the sweaty FPS gaming that's so universal now.
I'd like to thank Apex for banning Linux, otherwise I would have never bothered looking for Fragpunk.
I would also like to thank Marvel Rivals for being an unbalanced hell and forcing my hand to ditch it. It got tiresome having a team full of people who don't bother staying together or coordinating, who run into the line of fire one by one. In Fragpunk unranked games I don't have to care at all what the team is doing. Like old CoD lobbies or Team Fortress 2 lobbies, in Fragpunk you can just go out there and have fun and look at the scoreboard at the end to see what other people did.
People view a lot of things with rose tinted glasses. COD lobbies were fucking shite. That's why I played solo with everyone muted.
Most people didn't have a mic, or a mic so bad you couldn't hear shit.
It was like the wild West, but instead of slinging guns, we were slinging insults. It was a good time if you were fast on the draw... Partner.