Returning Player Trial?

[OnyxStrife]

Just a question, a friend of mine wants to return to the game but he doesn't want to spend the $15 to return to it just to realize he still doesn't like it. I told him how much has been updated, that's why.

I remember seeing somewhere about players who have been away from the game for a while being able to play free for a few days, but this may have been from another MMO. I did a google search and couldn't find anything, figured a quick forum post would be simpler.

Thank you!

[Kaitlen]

He just missed the free login weekend-week.
(http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...01c6348ab5d5e5)

I'm sure they'll do this again the near future leading up to 3.0 or maybe even the next patch.

Never heard of the method you mentioned about coming back for free for a few days.

[Keydah]

Returning players can only play for free at certain times: free login weekends. These are generally around the release of big patches, for a weekend or in the case of the one that they did for reaching 4 mil accounts, a whole week. There will probably be one again sometime after 2.55 releases on 3/31.

But yeah, had your buddy decided this two weeks ago he could've played. The free login week ended (exactly) a week ago.