we grew up playing competitive shooters, the community reflected that back then. with the newer generation and ease of access into online games the balance of competitive and casual gamers has tipped. this is something that i have come to accept in the past few years
without getting to deep into it, if you compared the mentality of the australian mb2 community back in 2005 compared to the resurgence in 2018, we had a lot more players who didnt want to play open seriously and just wanted to play for fun, where as in 2005 we were "mostly" all competitive and in current times you get labeled among the casual gamers as a "try hard"
nostalgia is a hell of a drug though, id like nothing more to go back to the days of NA/AU pugs back in 04 - 06, remember when everyone hated on AOD for playing nothing but dotf 24/7? now i wish i could go back to that, we didnt know how good we had it, till its gone, adios