Housing Census!

[Jojoya]

A lot of people I know consider Crystal a dead datacenter, for everything outside RP. Raiding /end game content ETC mostly because of Balmung. I know several who gave it a chance and jumped ship. Housing otherwise wouldn't be a good metric for this since a lot of people tie housing and RP together.

And yet what data center came up with the largest population in the latest Lucky census?

Crystal.

If all people care about is raiding then yes they're going to consider Crystal dead. It's very lively in other aspects of the game, though. The game world doesn't revolve around raiding nor does the data center revolve around Balmung.

Again, Crystal is doing just fine.

[Azurith]

And yet what data center came up with the largest population in the latest Lucky census?

Crystal.

If all people care about is raiding then yes they're going to consider Crystal dead. It's very lively in other aspects of the game, though. The game world doesn't revolve around raiding nor does the data center revolve around Balmung.

Again, Crystal is doing just fine.

Actually Raiding/questing/msq completion etc is the core of the game. If you like RP, Crystal I'm sure is great. But to many stories of people trying to RP in dungeons and ruining the run etc have driven people who *actually* play the game as intended away. Hence the reputation as a dead data center. You haven't really countered the argument just reinforced it. If you like the way Crystal is, thats fine. But don't get defensive because other people consider it dead for what the game is actually built around.

[GomJabbar]

And yet what data center came up with the largest population in the latest Lucky census?

Crystal..

Also, just FYI, Aether now has 5 congested servers and NO preferred servers... The only datacenter with preferred servers is now Crystal. Make of that what you will...