Warning: Some language, viewer discretion advised. You read at your own risk.

Pros
-Fun gameplay (I wanna say it starts getting good around 30 but could be wrong)
-Useful Crafting
-Impressive story
-Marriage is a thing (LGBT friendly if you care)
-Visually impressive boss fights
-Easy to get into
-Player Housing (Limited plots) (These can be a ♥♥♥♥♥ to get but it's gotten more fair to get recently)
-Guild Housing (Limited plots) (These can be a ♥♥♥♥♥ to get but it's gotten more fair to get recently)

Either Or (Good or bad based on taste)
-PVP (It's instanced based completely, no open world PVP, everyone is level 30 at most in it (You'll get scaled down and your gear doesn't matter in PVP if you're above 30))
-Game store (Has a IRL$$ store, mostly cosmetic stuffs but there are level/story progress skips on sell and mounts (Which require you to have obtained your chocobo anyways first))

Cons
-Account creation needs better work
-Requires a subscription for later progression (Stormblood, Shadowbringers, Endwalker content onwards.) If you sub, you must be subbed to play. If you cancel, you can't play otherwise unless you're on a free trial specific account
-While impressive, the story content starts out a bit slow and can be a bit lengthy text wise and cutscene wise
-Player Housing (Limited plots) (These were a ♥♥♥♥♥ to get but it's gotten more fair to get recently)
-Guild Housing (Limited plots) (These were a ♥♥♥♥♥ to get but it's gotten more fair to get recently)

Don't let this be the sole source of your decision though as consider this... Final Fantasy 14 has a free trial available that you can download to try the game for free. It allows you to go through all the content of A Realm Reborn and even the award winning expansion Heavensward to let you enjoy all the content for free up to level 60 on all jobs and classes. And did I forget to mention that the free trial has no restrictions on play time? Well it doesn't! Keep in mind there are some restrictions though such as for example being unable to join a guild, using zone chat, etc. So use this review be a stepping stone, but also give the game a shot through the free trial to know for sure.

Also wanna note I'm not tackling all the features here, and I'm not even hitting all the ones I like too like the glamour system as some of these are self explainable in-game. I can't really explain my thoughts on this without going over the review text limit, but keep in mind with some of the stuff there are ups and downs.

Key things to note:
-If you subscribe to the game, you will have to have an active subscription to play it afterwards if you cancel for your account
-You can have every job on one character, can swap to them by simply changing the 'weapon' once you unlock it
-If you like dress up, there's such a system in the game (Works similar to a degree to how transmog in WoW first started)
-If you really enjoy the game you'll lose countless hours like I have and I'm losing countless more as you read.

Warning: Some language, viewer discretion advised. You read at your own risk. Pros -Fun gameplay (I wanna say it starts getting good around 30 but could be wrong) -Useful Crafting -Impressive story -Marriage is a thing (LGBT friendly if you care) -Visually impressive boss fights -Easy to get into -Player Housing (Limited plots) (These can be a bitch to get but it's gotten more fair to get recently) -Guild Housing (Limited plots) (These can be a bitch to get but it's gotten more fair to get recently) Either Or (Good or bad based on taste) -PVP (It's instanced based completely, no open world PVP, everyone is level 30 at most in it (You'll get scaled down and your gear doesn't matter in PVP if you're above 30)) -Game store (Has a IRL$$ store, mostly cosmetic stuffs but there are level/story progress skips on sell and mounts (Which require you to have obtained your chocobo anyways first)) Cons -Account creation needs better work -Requires a subscription for later progression (Stormblood, Shadowbringers, Endwalker content onwards.) If you sub, you must be subbed to play. If you cancel, you can't play otherwise unless you're on a free trial specific account -While impressive, the story content starts out a bit slow and can be a bit lengthy text wise and cutscene wise -Player Housing (Limited plots) (These were a bitch to get but it's gotten more fair to get recently) -Guild Housing (Limited plots) (These were a bitch to get but it's gotten more fair to get recently) Don't let this be the sole source of your decision though as consider this... Final Fantasy 14 has a free trial available that you can download to try the game for free. It allows you to go through all the content of A Realm Reborn and even the award winning expansion Heavensward to let you enjoy all the content for free up to level 60 on all jobs and classes. And did I forget to mention that the free trial has no restrictions on play time? Well it doesn't! Keep in mind there are some restrictions though such as for example being unable to join a guild, using zone chat, etc. So use this review be a stepping stone, but also give the game a shot through the free trial to know for sure. Also wanna note I'm not tackling all the features here, and I'm not even hitting all the ones I like too like the glamour system as some of these are self explainable in-game. I can't really explain my thoughts on this without going over the review text limit, but keep in mind with some of the stuff there are ups and downs. Key things to note: -If you subscribe to the game, you will have to have an active subscription to play it afterwards if you cancel for your account -You can have every job on one character, can swap to them by simply changing the 'weapon' once you unlock it -If you like dress up, there's such a system in the game (Works similar to a degree to how transmog in WoW first started) -If you really enjoy the game you'll lose countless hours like I have and I'm losing countless more as you read.