I'm new to this game, I'll try to answer since I want to be part of the community.

1. I'm also a casual gamer, but only play 2hrs a day during weekdays and 5hrs during weekends. I think that is fine.

2. No idea

3. Yes, right now I have a FC which helps me and chats with me.

4. I think you need to for extra help. Maybe future contents will maximize the use of FC.

5. Hmm I don't know.

6. Positive - there are many things you can do in this game to make you busy, and you can try almost everything in one character. Still can't judge the negative part because I'm still enjoying. To avoid getting bored, make friends to chat with.

7. There was this dungeon (copperbell?) that we can't figure out on how to kill the green monster. All are beginners and we asked 1 of our members to google on how to kill it. Then we kept running around while looking for the way to kill it. In the end I laughed bec. it was very simple to kill the monster. For me that's fun