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Square Enix has a Final Fantasy XIV Online: Complete Edition (PC or Mac Digital Download) on sale for $23.99 (originally $59.99). You can also purchase it for the PS4/PS5 at the PlayStation Store. Sale ends on 4/08/2024 for PC/Mac and 04/10/2024 for PS4/PS5.
Sale Period (Square Enix Store for PC/Mac)
From Monday, March 25, 2024 to Monday, April 8, 2024
https://na.store.square-enix-game...---digital
Sale Period (PlayStation Store)
From Wednesday, March 27, 2024 to Wednesday, April 10, 2024
https://store.playstation.com/en-...OMPLETE04S
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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.
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.
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At the launch of a new expansion there will certainly be actual queues, but outside of that it is just the batched logins that are pretty common nowadays.
Tell me you have never played FF14 without actually telling me you never played FF14...
I have played WoW since beta. Sure it is a great game, great nostalgia and best played with friends. But Blizzard is just lost now. Banking on nostalgia, and for players like me (heroic/mythic raiding) it is a cycle losing my interest.
FF14 is a breath of fresh air to MMORPG players. The single player experience is well over 100 hours of good FF RPG gameplay. The world, vast and beautiful with a lot to do. You can see the passion the developers put into it. You can even play solo with bots in instances if you wanted giving more options for the single player experience. End game is inspired and fun. The community very friendly compared to WoW. WoW mythic/heroic players are quite possibly the worst. Where as I found FF14 end game players are willing to teach.
As an MMORPG fan (and I tried a lot of them), FF14 is a great game and holds up to WoW in a lot of ways. I highly recommend this game.
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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.
I know that some people would view that as a weird way to play a MMORPG, but the free trial hasn't really thrown any limits at me to prevent me having a good time with it.
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As for this deal, if you buy it for PC/Mac you can hold onto the code you receive until you're ready to end the free trial. Just be aware that once the free trial ends you can't go back. Some people confuse 'free trial' and 'free to play' games, thinking they can go back to playing for free with restrictions if they stop paying the subscription.
At the launch of a new expansion there will certainly be actual queues, but outside of that it is just the batched logins that are pretty common nowadays.
hopefully they've worked on updating the login servers to handle things this time. 6.0 was pretty bad, several hour long queues some days at peak times, and it would sometimes drop the connection which put you back at the end of the line.
Otherwise most of the time it's less than a minute to log in.
If you're considering subscribing, check out the recruit a friend codes posted on https://new.reddit.com/r/ffxivraf/ you can get some nice bonus loot, and many offer bonus gil that is a big help for beginners
I have played WoW since beta. Sure it is a great game, great nostalgia and best played with friends. But Blizzard is just lost now. Banking on nostalgia, and for players like me (heroic/mythic raiding) it is a cycle losing my interest.
FF14 is a breath of fresh air to MMORPG players. The single player experience is well over 100 hours of good FF RPG gameplay. The world, vast and beautiful with a lot to do. You can see the passion the developers put into it. You can even play solo with bots in instances if you wanted giving more options for the single player experience. End game is inspired and fun. The community very friendly compared to WoW. WoW mythic/heroic players are quite possibly the worst. Where as I found FF14 end game players are willing to teach.
As an MMORPG fan (and I tried a lot of them), FF14 is a great game and holds up to WoW in a lot of ways. I highly recommend this game.
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