Quote Originally Posted by Alicie View Post
"But if we enable all this to free trials, they will just start advertising RMT!!11"
No, there are bunch of ways around it. Simply add "Authorize incoming actions" into context menu of another player. Upon clicking on it, for a limited time (until you log out) this person will be able to send you friend requests, send you tells and party requests even on free trial. And once you are on each others friend lists? You can freely communicate with each other without need to autorize each other.
This is a game with a Friends List still running on dial up. You really think they'll add in a whole separate feature that really only benefits free trial players who may not even stick with the game to begin with?

The whole purpose of a free trial is to give you a taste of the game to see whether you'd like it. They don't actually want you to stay on a free trial until Heavensward or Stormblood. Hence why it's so restrictive. And that doesn't even get into possible harassment issues, RMT and whatnot.