The Thing About Private Servers

[Fatalis]

Official servers have those people who call you "noob" over your character's stat/skill build, an insane amount of bots (And no GMs attempting to stop them), and a very cramped, unfriendly feel, all topped off by the lag.

I won't say private servers are "better", since they ARE illegal (The software is open source and but the sprites are not), but I'd rather play on them instead of an inhospitable official server.