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FFXIV is a fantastic game, with a fantastic free trial that lets you play the entire base game for free (and i think they recently expanded that to the first expansion too), and its beautiful as hell, has a fantastic story, and doesnt require a super computer to run.
They actually just expanded it to the second expansion, so you now get the base game of A Realm Reborn, as well as Heavensward and Stormblood included in the free trial.
It's also releasing for beta on Xbox later this year (currently it's PC and PS4/5) so there's due to be a new influx of players as well, so it's a good time to start playing. That and the new expansion is due out in the new year too.
Oh, neat. I thought it was the first expansion, but hte second?
Thats a whole lot of content for free.
Apologies for my accidental misinformation.
No stress! It's only changed recently (like it was only announced at the NA Fanfast a few months back), so nothing wrong with having missed the change!
Is it cross play with consoles?
Yup, this is right. Everyone plays on the same servers regardless of the platform you're on, but any expansion you purchase is tied to the platform (so Mac, PC, PSN and soon presumably Xbox). So if you personally want to play on multiple platforms you need to buy multiple copies of the game.
However that only applies to the initial purchase. FFXIV being an MMO still has a monthly subscription fee (unless you're on the free trial, which isn't time limited and includes the base game plus the first two expansions), but you only pay that once a month per account, regardless of how many platforms you play on.
Pretty much everything is stored on the server as well, so regardless of the platform you log into, your character will be the same. There's a small number of things that are kept client side (things like your gear sets and your UI setup), however there is an option to upload your settings from one client and download them on another (so for me for example, my PS5 is my primary device but I sometimes play on PC, so I've copied my PS5 settings to the server, and then downloaded them onto my PC, all through the game client).