User blog comment:Ebon Shadowshot/The loss of Multiplayer's Difficulty/@comment-4872344-20120719235707

I think it's not the game, but the players. Today I played MW3, and with everyone spraying the most OP guns, I did poorly. I got pissed and switched to good old Call of Duty 4, where I was in the Top 3 player 8/10 of time. My point is, the difficulty differentiates between the players. And that's where I beleive the CoD cycle comes from, the majority of players, including noobs, being on the newer CoD games. Just my opinoi though.

tl;dr: I think older games have less noobs.