So which world(server) is the worst?

I ask this because I have heard horror stories surrounding Mateus server, and those horror stories make the Balmung horror stories look like child's play... I'm on Diabolos and I did make a new character on Balmung when the flood gets were re-opened before closing once more, and so far seems like a normal Role Play server(I started in Ul'dah btw)...

I've had an alt on Mateus for 3 years almost, so from when it was just a small server on Aether to now that it's basically Balmung 2.0, but in all honesty, I haven't seen all that horror. There is RP at the quicksand, sometimes you get caught in it around cities, but either than that, I haven't really seen anything 'horrible'.

Then again, with WAVES of people that came over, it is inevitable that rotten apples have appeared as well, so I wouldn't be surprised if there were some spread around. Maybe I have been lucky?

You shall never believe any rumors, unless you have seen or experienced them yourself :)

In my case, a lot of EU players say that Louisoix (Chaos DC) is one of the worst servers and feel glad that they moved away from there. I am on Louisoix since the Server was opened and never ever had a nightmarish experience like those players reported. And I am online daily, even run my stuff with randoms - all the time. In terms of hardcore players, that might be true that you probably won't be served well here, but it is still not by far as bad as everyone says.

Same with the following claim: "Chaos will be the french data center".
Yes, it is true that a bunch of french players are bad, but so are some english and german speaking players - and usually it is not those bad frenchies that make a run worse, but those who can not stop complaining, refuse to stop healing/tanking and/or leave the dungeon just like that. And truth to be told, I had better and more positive experiences with Chaos DC players than Light DC players, despite them always stating the opposite.

I used to be on Mateus. I dislike roleplay and seeing it everywhere I go in the cities. So for me, Mateus/Balmung are horror servers. The content in the RP on Mateus wasn't necessarily horrid, just a little lewd at times (to be expected) and some people get really into it (good for them if they enjoy it). I have noticed that there was wide skill gap on Mateus and with the wide skill gap, I ran into quite a few elitist on the server.

As far as the primal servers, I would have to say from personal experience, Leviathan/Excalibur have the most rotten apples per capita on them (Not saying the whole server is, just a handful of peeps). Both are semi raiding servers, so with raiders you are bound to run into people who consider themselves better than others at everything.

Outside of the just a handful of experiences in both area mentioned above, I wouldn't consider any particular sever to be unbearable for the average person. If you hate RP, I would shy away from Mateus/Balmung.

I feel like this threads going to get closed pretty quickly. But anyway on Chaos, Louisoix, Odin, and Ragnarok tend to get a bad rap. Not really sure why to be honest.

Balmung is the worst simply cause everyone says so. Even if they don't say it, they are thinking it. You are free to bow before the new overlords of Crystal.

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Originally Posted by Ruinfeild

Balmung is the worst simply cause everyone says so. Even if they don't say it, they are thinking it. You are free to bow before the new overlords of Crystal.

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I've heard that the real reason for the new datacenter was so that they could quarantine the RP servers. :eek:

Here we go.

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Originally Posted by Zazay

You shall never believe any rumors, unless you have seen or experienced them yourself :)

In my case, a lot of EU players say that Louisoix (Chaos DC) is one of the worst servers and feel glad that they moved away from there. I am on Louisoix since the Server was opened and never ever had a nightmarish experience like those players reported. And I am online daily, even run my stuff with randoms - all the time. In terms of hardcore players, that might be true that you probably won't be served well here, but it is still not by far as bad as everyone says.

Same with the following claim: "Chaos will be the french data center".
Yes, it is true that a bunch of french players are bad, but so are some english and german speaking players - and usually it is not those bad frenchies that make a run worse, but those who can not stop complaining, refuse to stop healing/tanking and/or leave the dungeon just like that. And truth to be told, I had better and more positive experiences with Chaos DC players than Light DC players, despite them always stating the opposite.

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Louisoix isn't so bad really, there's still available houses in most zones and dungeon queues are usually pretty fast. However anyone thinking of moving here be warned. Our economy is completely screwed up. You either have items saturated by bots with multiple stacks of 99 dirt cheap, or you have to pay at least double what an item costs on Omega when it comes to glamour and crafted stuff. Trying to get that single gemstone or lump of wood is almost impossible as it's either flooded with big stacks with perhaps a single item that costs more than a stack of 99 or there's 1-5 stacks of 20-99 at ridiculously high prices. Many times while levelling my crafters I have found myself screaming at the screen when I check marketboard for the one item I can't seem to get to drop or can't craft yet. The flip side of this is that it is quite easy to save up for a house but with one caveat. Pretty much anything you decide to sell will suddenly have 20 people come out of the woodwork and undercut it to worthlessness if it hasn't sold within a few minutes.

This thread is doomed to go bad places and get closed.

But before that happens, I'd like to address the "horror stories". Having transferred from Famfrit to Mateus some... 8 months ago? Something like that. I have not as of yet seen anything that stood out as particularly horrible. Yes, there is the Lewdsand and there's the occasional random weirdo who might whisper an ERP proposal to you if you happen to be passing through, but those are outliers - I wouldn't consider that representative of the overall community. Outside of that, the RP community is sane, friendly, respectful and most RP events worth attending are well organised, efficiently moderated and typically held in the housing wards so well out of the way of players uninterested in or trying to avoid them.

One thing I absolutely adore about Mateus is its huntshell community. There are several huntshells I'm a part of, scouts work around the clock, hunt trains are organised every day, special FATEs are called out when found and typically a massive crowd of people will show up within minutes of a relay, ready to go. It works like a well-oiled machine. Since I started hunting, I've also not seen a lot of poaching incidents, but when they do happen, the huntshells try to salvage the situation by organising active hunts instead until things return to normal.

TL;DR: I came for the RP and it turned out okay, I stayed for the hunts.

I was on Balmung for years and recently transferred off. For the most part, many people are really nice but there is some truth behind the horror stories. Overly big egos thinking they own an npc they role play as, stalking, overly sensitive people that think that their opinions is the word of God. Yes, you can find these people on every server. But I feel that a certain vocal community that was on Balmung a few years ago was astoundingly toxic. I could fill up this whole thread of horror stories that I experienced while rp'ing an npc on Balmung and I thoroughly believe it was this circle that a lot of horror stories originated from mainly due to these people taking their drama to tumblr and discord servers. The kicker? These fractured circles of cesspool people decided they wanted a fresh start on a new server because they had gained a bad reputation. I can think of four different groups that all hated each other and all stirred the pot on tumblr and Balmung and kept the drama alive that transferred to Mateus. (Which was funny because then they all accused one another of stalking each other onto Mateus, ha!)

To my knowledge, many of these people now do the same thing they were doing on Balmung on Mateus. Its a small group of people, honestly, but fandoms be wack and they are found through Tumblr which lead to meet ups in game etc. Not saying all npc rp'ers are bad, most I'm sure are kind. Just like the servers of Balmung and Mateus. But dear lord did these groups cause a lot of havoc and drama!

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Originally Posted by ElianaGoldstein

Louisoix isn't so bad really, there's still available houses in most zones and dungeon queues are usually pretty fast. However anyone thinking of moving here be warned. Our economy is completely screwed up. You either have items saturated by bots with multiple stacks of 99 dirt cheap, or you have to pay at least double what an item costs on Omega when it comes to glamour and crafted stuff. Trying to get that single gemstone or lump of wood is almost impossible as it's either flooded with big stacks with perhaps a single item that costs more than a stack of 99 or there's 1-5 stacks of 20-99 at ridiculously high prices. Many times while levelling my crafters I have found myself screaming at the screen when I check marketboard for the one item I can't seem to get to drop or can't craft yet. The flip side of this is that it is quite easy to save up for a house but with one caveat. Pretty much anything you decide to sell will suddenly have 20 people come out of the woodwork and undercut it to worthlessness if it hasn't sold within a few minutes.

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With this statement, you're entirely correct, our economy is pretty messed up. However - you will always find at least one stack of an item, especially true for HQ armors and weapons (non-capped, eg. between lvl 60-70) with a reasonable price. I have an alt on Shiva and got the problem that a lot of stuff were either not available or waay to overpriced. So I guess in terms of that, Louisoix can be very handy for newcomers, also because they can save up and afford a house rather fast and without fighting over vacant plots - just like you said.

Also, I rarly had any problems selling stuff on the marketboard. Even if you have not the best price/value, people will eventually buy your items - even for unpopular ones like the ARR relic materials XD If you want to get lots of money, I figure rare seeds (gardening), lvl 6 crit/dh materia and minions do quite well on our server.

So I've been on at least thirteen separate servers, with at least two more than once. Let me break them down.

Exodus: This was where I first started. Wasn't too bad, but I think it's deadened over there since it's been on the preferred server list several times now.
Brynhildr: Wasn't too bad, but left because there seemed like there was going to be a civil war in the Lalafell community.
Lich: When I was there, it was pretty much as dead as the thing it was named after.
Faerie: Server was okay. Was more of a case of being there for people who had later decided to quit playing.
Balmung: As much fun as I make of it, it's surprisingly not that bad of a server so long as you're not expecting things like housing, and I even hope to come back there one day. Just um....avoid Ul'dah at all costs if you can.
Cactuar: It's sorta like Portland, Oregon in that it just produces its own brand of weird. Not bad, just weird.
Moogle: Very much a French server nowadays. Lalafell community there is a bit too much into loli stuff.
Omega: I went there when it first opened up, and I was probably the happiest I've ever been in the game the day after that 90-day transfer lockout had lifted.
Louisoix: Wasn't too bad when I was there, but no real incentive for me to go back there.
Lamia: Not a bad server, but there was one guy in Limsa who was such a public nuisance that someone started a GoFundMe to pay for that guy to be transferred off the server.
Midgardsormr: Another server that isn't too bad, but not really one I'd feel like going back to.
Mateus: I'd honestly like it if wasn't for the fact that everyone seems to expect everyone to be an RP'er. If you like to RP, then it's the server for you. Otherwise, don't bother with it.
Adamantoise: This is where I am right now, and it's nice. Will I transfer off it when we get the free transfer period? Yup.

TL;DR: Omega has probably been hands-down the single worst server I've ever been on, but it's been a while since I was there and I'm not sure if there's been any change in the population there.

I've been levelling an alt (technically former main, long story) in Mateus for a few months and honestly it hasn't been bad at all. Pretty peaceful, hunts seem to be active, and haven't seen any "weird" RP around (I normally don't go to Ul'Dah so idk if the horror stories are true) and when I was looking through the housing wards there was also nothing weird going on (although I didn't go into many houses, of course, was looking for an FC). Oddest thing might have been someone /dote-ing me in Gridania while I was wearing the Shisui set which was actually kind of flattering lol

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Originally Posted by Kazrah

Faerie: Server was okay. Was more of a case of being there for people who had later decided to quit playing.

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That's funny! I made an alt (now my main) in Faerie for much of the same reasons lol then found a pretty good LGBT+ accepting community.

I feel like this thread is just asking, no, begging to open a few cans of worms...

On every server are bad apples. I'm both Phoenix and Louisoix and have no problems there. But there are definitiv bad apples around. :) It's like in RL: every country have a differend kind of people each with their own attitude.

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Originally Posted by Lacan

I've heard that the real reason for the new datacenter was so that they could quarantine the RP servers. :eek:

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You forgot the E part. /s

Hyperion, as I run rampant through it.

Quite a few that left bal to Mateus went there because they had problems on bal and wanted “fresh starts.” Take that as you will.

What i can tell you about Odin server is it has probably the higest average level of player skill out of any EU servers.
The market is really bad though.The amount of undercutting is desperate there.It's a hard server to make any gil.On the plus side it also means that alot of prices have been driven into the ground.
I dont think its a very good server for new players either as its too raid focused which means not mcuh time to help newer players.
It also is the undisputed champion for worst hunt community out of every single data centre.None can rival the toxicity that goes on with hunts there.

Moogle server is full of people that dont know how to play their jobs or do mechanics even at lvl 70.They are actually famous for it and the bane of duty finder in the EU.Some might say a lot of them dont even care about playing the game properly.I've heard there is a lot of rp there too.

Zodiark is a very friendly community and extremly active.A lot of new players have come here now so the population has increased dramatically.The market board is qustionable at best.The prices are literally just random in how they change.There is no pattern to it.In the plus side you can get some really great deals there.
I think we have one of the more active Eureka player bases too here.

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Originally Posted by Kazrah

Brynhildr: Wasn't too bad, but left because there seemed like there was going to be a civil war in the Lalafell community.

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I'd be lying if I said I wasn't morbidly curious to know more... XD

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Originally Posted by Cyreil

Here we go.

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Sargatanas is the worst because I'm pretty much convinced all the party people there are now partying in their homes or something.

Either that or I keep missing the parties.


Where mah timbz gang at? ( Only Sarg people will know this reference).

Jenova was the worst server for me. Free companies actively participated in corruption schemes, and made rules that everyone had to follow on the server, or they would ghost you, and never let you get any world content done.

I have played on both Odin (EU, Chaos) and Behemoth (NA, Primal). They've both been really good. Sometimes you get a bit of drama, but it's never been terrible.

Bluntly speaking, I've had a worse time on the US servers than I did on the EU ones. I moved to Balmung because friends and boyfriend did to either join other people or try RP respectively.

The random Lewdsand RP, and I can't stress that part enough, is utterly cringeworthy. And I've played on AD WoW. It's just mindbogglingly bad, and I can't even say the EU community on here is any better with the few interactions I've had so far. Maybe it's better in FC's, I don't know, I can't find one that can fit my time frame -and- not have every other topic be about humping.

The DF's are so rude and unhelpful. I joined for an Alexander run a couple days ago, said upon joining this was my first time and it took a wipe before people wanted to divulge the tactics. Like, come on. Does anyone read the damn party log? -Some- advice is better than -no- advice.

I'd very much like to move back to the EU servers, but alas; my boyfriend refuses to move and my other pals rarely play now. So it was ultimately a move for nothing.

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Originally Posted by ChaoticCrimson

I feel like this thread is just asking, no, begging to open a few cans of worms...

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I mean, isn't that the whole point of me making this thead, to find which is real worms and which is just gummi worms...?


While on topic; So far Ul'dah on Balmung has a LOT or RPers when I did some solo questing so I wasn't really surprised by the fact the people were going to talk about Balmung's Ul'dah. Public RPers who tell a story is fine, public ERPing is kinda going a bit too far...


Yeah, I know, I have standards...

Not sure about Balmung, but in some dark corners of Mateus, there are certain secret societies that delve into 'unspeakable' things.
ps. I have a feeling this thread is gonna be closed.

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Originally Posted by Nyxn607

As far as the primal servers, I would have to say from personal experience, Leviathan/Excalibur have the most rotten apples per capita on them (Not saying the whole server is, just a handful of peeps).

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Seconded. Out of the sparse people I've had to vote-kick/GM-call, they tend to have one of these two servers tagged next to them.