Is Crystal Data Center bad?

[Neoyoshi]

So I often see people making fun of Crystal and saying it's bad and calling people who transferred from Crystal to another datacenter "refugees". What's wrong with that Data Center? Is it a bad joke or did something happen?

It's because of Balmung mostly. Before we even had the Crystal datacenter, Balmung was on Aether with us.

Just google: "What's wrong with Balmung?" or "What type of server is Balmung?"

[lezard21]

Yes.

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[Rilifane]

Yes.

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Huh.
And here I thought Light was the worst DC for raiding. Hadn't expected any DC to beat us there.

[technole]

Yes.

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I always felt when they broke NA into 3 data centers, they did it intentionally based on some of these metrics.

Brynhildr and Diablos were Primal, and I always knew raiders there but in totality, Crystal just doesn't cut the mustard when it comes to clearing savage or ultimate with <10% E12S clears on average per server, which makes recruiting harder too. So it's a chicken and the egg problem. Why start on Crystal when you can start on the better DCs.

[Raelsar]

It's definitely more relaxed, and for players who stick to the baseline difficulty, there's generally no issues in doing content. Going into more advanced content may be the only difference, and for the most part it seems simply be far fewer players participating in it. In any case, I end up seeing Ultimate weapons and titles every so often; there's nothing stopping people from completing the hardest content, it just may take longer to find enough high-skilled players to do it.

If anything, the data center's "reputation" is a benefit -- it drives away the vast majority the try-hard players.
While exceptions always exist, but you'll rarely run into players who take the game too seriously and just make everyone miserable in the process.

So yeah, players on Crystal are generally happier and more relaxed.
... though you do need to stomach a bit more weirdness fairly frequently.

[CrystalPenguin]

It can't be worse than the degeneracy that is Primal where you can see countless Party Finders advertising their ERPing, ERPing FCs, ERPing Extreme, ERPing Savage, feet pics, and escort services.

I guess I haven't seen the worst of it (My server is Crystal)

[CrystalPenguin]

I guess I haven't seen the worst of it (My server is Crystal)

Brynhildr (Crystal)
Wait am I getting my servers mixed up?

[CrystalPenguin]

I guess I haven't seen the worst of it (My server is Crystal)

Brynhildr (Crystal)
Wait am I getting my servers mixed up?

[Sheriyana]

Brynhildr (Crystal)
Wait am I getting my servers mixed up?

Crystal is the data center Brynhildr is on so if you had anything mixed up it was the terms.