My gf hated renewal with a passion but she acquiesced after I bugged her enough to give this server a try. Now she's in love with RO all over again. Though it's a mostly-English speaking server, it seems like most people I party with only know enough English to get by. You'll also run into impatient people quite often but there's definitely small pockets of great communities sprinkled about. You just have to dig a little.