Regret transfer from congested world

[Ayuhra]

Am I wrong for loving Crystals bad rep? Especially about raiding? Or not raiding as the case may be?

Yes, I play there (here).

Crystal Data Center: We won't impress you, but we have the most fun!

[Ayuhra]

I heard of this difference, and the census showing savage clears also showed this gap, but it really hit hard when i watched asmon streams, and saw how quickly everything melts, and how few of ppl mess up mechanics. thats when i really understood the difference

Asmongold's streams are less indicative of the skill of Aether and more indicative of the fact that you are more likely to get world first raiders showing up to guide you through content and flex for a camera if you are a popular streamer. That's not a knock against Asmon's streams, that's just the truth. The average player is not going to attract the sorts of players he does.

[Jojoya]

I never lag and get those errors so that has to be a personal issue. If you don't like it here then don't play and go to a different datacenter for awhile like Primal. Seems Crystal hate threads show up often.

People look for things to hate so they can feel superior. Because they can't stand the thought of being associated with something considered inferior, they avoid being part of it.

Let the hate threads show up. We end up with a friendlier, more relaxed community as a result of the players who need to crap on others flocking to Aether and Primal. Those on Crystal who are interested in raiding might be a smaller percentage of the data center population but they still get their Savage and Ultimate clears.

[RachelM]

I never lag and get those errors so that has to be a personal issue. If you don't like it here then don't play and go to a different datacenter for awhile like Primal. Seems Crystal hate threads show up often.

Absolutely not a "hate on Crystal" intention. My ONLY beef was the shock of going from a server where, even when an area was packed with people (Limsa, for example) I had no lag or disconnects to transferring to Mateus and logging in to an immediate lag freeze followed by 90006 disconnect. I honestly have zero knowledge of the reputation of each world/server. I don't normally hang on on forums. My apologies.

[Ayuhra]

Absolutely not a "hate on Crystal" intention. My ONLY beef was the shock of going from a server where, even when an area was packed with people (Limsa, for example) I had no lag or disconnects to transferring to Mateus and logging in to an immediate lag freeze followed by 90006 disconnect. I honestly have zero knowledge of the reputation of each world/server. I don't normally hang on on forums. My apologies.

I haven't had much lag issue on Mateus but I have had lag spikes on and off in instances, especially right after zoning in. It's been worse over the past month or two, never used to be a problem. I'd think that's less on Mateus and more on instance server load but it's weird it doesn't seem to be happening to more people if that's the case.

[Canadane]

The main problem you have is...
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"Calling your characters toons"

Yeah that would do it!

But either way, good luck with your connection issues.

[Maulclaw]

Been playing on Mateus since I started (I'm an EU player) and I didn't experience any of these issues. My internet isn't that good, so it's odd that is happening to you. Have you reached out to Support for a transfer back? I personally haven't struggled with finding people to do content except for BLU and Monster Hunter stuff (which is rather unfortunate).

[Maulclaw]

Absolutely not a "hate on Crystal" intention. My ONLY beef was the shock of going from a server where, even when an area was packed with people (Limsa, for example) I had no lag or disconnects to transferring to Mateus and logging in to an immediate lag freeze followed by 90006 disconnect. I honestly have zero knowledge of the reputation of each world/server. I don't normally hang on on forums. My apologies.

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[Ayuhra]

The main problem you have is...
*checks notes*
"Calling your characters toons"

Yeah that would do it!

But either way, good luck with your connection issues.

I am only just now realizing how rarely "toon" is used in FFXIV.

"Toon" started with Cartoon Avatars in IRC channels and then was used to describe the 2D Avatars in The Realm Online and Ultima Online when those came out. The term carried forward into Everquest and from Everquest in World of WarCraft.

WoW STILL calls player characters "toons" on a routine basis.

[SturmChurro]

Popular streamer, and content creator in general, is exceptionally likely to be non-representative to the normal player experience.

Yeah, a lot of people like to joke about "Streamer privilege", but it's true. Especially ones at these levels of viewership. The regular player just will not have an experience like that. Like, good luck even getting players for some of the content these streamers do, or want to do, even less so players that can clear it. It's why I think a lot of players will actually end up quitting when reality kicks in.

Anyway, I think this thread is supposed to be more about the technical issues, than server reputation in regards to skill.