@PurpleG This probably isn’t going to change your mind but you can actually edit the UI pretty extensively in the menus and also hide things you don’t want to have on screen. It can take a while to tweak things to be how you like it though and I totally get not wanting to put time into HUD optimization for a game you might not play for long.

@MamaSymphonia in the System menu you can go to the HUD layout and change the size and position of every UI on screen. This allows you to go beyond the general UI size menu option I think you are talking about. It can be a bit overwhelming to navigate the HUD layout menu but you really can change almost everything to be the way you want.

@Andee I don’t recall what all the time options are for subscribing but the lowest you can do is 1 month at a time. They may have a different way for doing it for Switch 2 though.

@Andee If you do end up subscribing you can let your subscription run out and your characters and account will still be saved with all your progress for whenever you resubscribe in the future. A lot of players do this and only subscribe whenever there is a major content update.

A large amount of the game is playable solo. The main story quests have required 4-man “dungeons” and 8-man “trials” but the devs have spent the last few years reworking all of the required 4-man dungeon content to be playable solo with bots. This actually gets you completely through the base game storyline before you have to take on an 8-man trial with other players at level 50. So you will actually be able to see the initial credit roll ending entirely solo if you want.

Something important to note for anyone interested in trying this game: the actual free trial has no time limits and no monthly fee forever UNTIL you buy any version of the game. Once you pay for any version of the game you will have to start paying the monthly fee. It may sound obvious but I’ve had several friends not realize that buying the starter edition meant they had to start subscribing.

@roboshort They have been updating the game for several years now to allow for most of the required content to be playable solo, with a group of npc bots to assist with 4-man content. I believe the entire campaign for the base game can now be done solo but later parts of the campaign have 8-man battles that require you to play with other players. There’s also a large amount of optional content that will require other players as well.

If you are interested but worried about being forced to play with others I’d still suggest giving it a try with the free trial. There’s many many hours of content before you get to anything you have to group up for.

@Jeronan I think this may have more to do with your personal preferences. I would say that this game is extremely accessible on controller. I play FFXIV on both PC and PS5 and actually use a controller even on PC and I’m currently caught up on all expansions. Its really just a matter of playing the way that works for you.

Just curious, but what’s up with the last paragraph advertising a competitor’s game?

Am I the only one who thinks that the reason they’re having trouble with the system transfer for this particular save data is because it’s possible for it to be “owned” by 8 different profiles? It probably has some weird things going on in the code to make that happen.