The Review.
Not much to say here. This MMO is the one I played almost the most in my life and there would be too much to say about everything if I did. I came here for the story and I wasn't disappointed except for ARR's pace which has too many filler quests that will feel boring if focused on and nothing else. Speaking of content, there is a lot available pretty early with classes and duties (Dungeons starting Lv15) but most of it will be locked behind the main story. It's a long path but it's worth doing for the story itself and for all it unlocks in the long run.

The story itself gets pretty insane starting Heavensward and in my opinion only gets better from there. The content unlocked will vary in difficulty but only toward the end of an expansion (or mid expansion in some cases) with extreme boss battles. (And later, savage and etc). Gameplay wise, the classes vary a lot by roles and all go from pretty easy to pretty hard to play so the choice is there for all. End game battles will all be fairly hard (or harder for some classes) anyway. I can't stress enough that it's important to cooperate with your party.

Speaking of which. The community (and I can't speak for ALL servers) is pretty nice and helpful in game. I've been well welcome in a Free company and also in the novice network where they keep things lively but they always try to answer questions when someone has any. (Your experience may differ because I heard of some bad one on some worlds). In duties themselves, I rarely ever had any troubles with anyone as people usually work together to clear things. Just be aware that it's a different thing on steam forums where lot of toxicity is present.

All in all, I personally recommend the game but as the above said, your experience with it may be different from mine. Because of it, I recommend to try the Free Trial, first. As the name implies, it's a TRIAL but you can play indefinitely without a sub up to Lv70 content as of currently. (End of Stormblood). There will be many in game restrictions to it such as being unable to join a free company, I think? For the sake of accuracy, I will be putting 2 links below that lead to the Free Trial AND the official SE link that will explain the restrictions.

The Free Trial.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/312060/FINAL_FANTASY_XIV_Online_Free_Trial/

The Restrictions.
https://support.na.square-enix.com/rule.php?id=5382&la=1&tag=freetrial
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