The COD player base is indeed a nightmare. Been playing MW3 a bit now that it's free weekend, and the first thing I saw when I joined a game (for the first time) was some kiddies crying "CHEATER" and "FUCK UR MOTHER".
Most empires players do not believe to be part the "norm". The community might be a bit more elitist or atleast it seems to claim to be more elevated intellectually in comparisson with your casual call of duty player. This is plausible because Call of Duty is a wide audience game and attempts to remain "simple" for economic gain. Empires does not attract many people and does not make much money. And clearly does not attract 90% of the call of duty players. We have a village type community and Idiocy gets cussed at alot in empires. While in Cod it seems like the idiots are half of the server. 90%'ers/average joe's arn't attracted to empires. Alot of people claim that average people are not very "intelligent". IF that is true then we shoudnt be suprised that empires level of "intellect" is different then the level of your average Cod player. derp.
Speaking as a Modern Warfare fanboy (COD4 and MW2, that is) MW3 fucking sucks. Every problem from the series is amplified (e.g. killstreaks) while the good stuff is taken out (like the awesome MW2 maps).
god... every time I read MW3 my head replaces the letters with words and I get Mech Warrior 3. Good game btw... I should get it out and play it again.