The problem with custom maps is they are never unique for long, soon they are so over-used they are as familiar as the real tibia map, only not as good.
As well as that, lots of custom maps are total crap, horrible mapping and only a "house city" with random hunting/quest places floating in darkness only accessible from teleports in the depot. This is BORING. I would rather play a familiar, huge and frankly good map, like the real tibia map, than continue playing on some piece of crap like an "edited (changing the material that makes the depot does not mean edited, people) evoloutions map" that I've seen on 100 different servers.
Don't get me started on some of the popular custom map servers that usually have a really high exp rate, those maps are so god damn ugly it's almost painful to play. It's like, wow, you don't even put borders around your hunting places, why the fuck should I bother when you obviously didn't.
So yes, lately I prefer real map servers, the map is reliable; Well-mapped, large and interesting.
If someone makes a map just as large and well made as real tibia that isn't instantly used by tons of new servers, I'd probably enjoy it too.
Btw, I might join this kind of OT if exp was lower, staff were there to help and not make money, and donations didn't make donors godlike.
Aols for 10k (pkers can ruin a server by driving away new players who lose everything when they die) and the latest tibia spell system would also be a bonus
Btw, don't for a second think the majority of OT players are represented by the comments you are getting in this thread, most of the people that comment here are hive-mind elitists and are a minority of OT players.