I like FFXIV, I just wish they'd release it on Xbox so I could be casual with it and play it on the big screen.

The free trial...is semi worth it. When I play FFXIV it's for the crafting/gathering systems, but the free trial limiting your inventory space and denying access to the marketboard kills that. You can go to the effort to make HQ versions and such but it'll only ever sell for 10 cents (basically) to the npcs. You wind up needing so many materials and stuff you get from other classes your inventory can't keep up...

In the other areas, it's an mmo. Combat is slow and based on the traditional button on a timer system. It looks nice, but personally looking nice on my computer monitor don't matter as much as looking nice on the big TV.

Having a subscription system in today's day and age is ass, especially since they also have cosmetics. They offer a free trial to play up until the end of the first dlc, but of you've ever paid for the game you can't play the free trial anymore. The system surrounding the game is so stupid and asinine that it half kills it for me, but if you just subscribe and play it shouldn't get in the way.