Final Fantasy XIV Online: Complete Edition (PC/Mac or PS4/PS5 Digital Download) Expired

I just started playing this game maybe 2-3 months ago. I've generally stayed away from MMORPGs, in part because I'm wary of assholes, but the FF14 community seems to be pretty good. They're generally pretty friendly and even courteous, like waiting for people who haven't seen the little cut scenes at the beginning of the final boss fight in a dungeon to finish watching it before triggering the boss. Out of probably literally hundreds of dungeon crawls, there's only been one instance I can think of where a couple of players were being assholes. They were being assholes to each other because one of them did something the other didn't like or I don't really know, I was just trying to level my character and wasn't really paying close attention to the others.

Biggest complaint I have about FF14, is there's a lot of people who've obviously been playing since the beginning, and they'll leave characters logged in for literally days at a time not doing anything. Meanwhile, every time I log in, I usually have to wait a minute or two for some people to log out so I can log in, and there are these idiots not actually playing, but are taking up a slot for people who want to actually actively play. It's one thing if you just step away from the game for a bit, but you'll see the same character in exactly the same spot for literally days at a time. It's annoying, but it could obviously be a lot worse.

You can always grab the free trial, play for a few days, and then see for yourself.

If you can finish everything within 30-days... which is more or less impossible unless you focus on only one or two character classes and ignore almost every side quest. Even then, you may be hard pressed. There's a LOT to do in this game. Otherwise, you have to pay up every 30-days. If you're a casual player who probably only wants to have 1, maybe 2 characters, it's like $12/mo. If you think you're going to be a much more hardcore player than that, with dozens of different characters, it's more like $18/mo.

There's also the free trial version which I think has everything except the most recent expansion. There are some limitations, like you can't use retainers, can't use the in-game market, limited to 300K in currency, and a couple other things, but there are no restrictions on things like the amount of time you can play in a given day. All in all, as free trials go, it's pretty damn generous. They'll probably add the Endwalker expansion to the free trial not too long after the new Dawntrail expansion comes out in July. If you're really determined, you could probably make your way through all but the Endwalker expansion on the free trial and then redeem this for the 30-days that comes with it and finish out Endwalker. I haven't gotten nearly that far, but from what I understand, Endwalker sort of wraps up the story they started with A Realm Reborn and Dawntrail will be starting a whole new storyline along with providing a fairly significant graphical update.