This is a tip for any of you new players coming into the game:

There is a video that plays if you leave your game logged in and just idling at character select. The video shows a dude walking in the snow with a big axe on his back.

This video is one giant spoiler for some of the best parts of the ARR storyline

There is apparently no check to see whether you have completed the relevant story quests on any of your characters to play this video, so it will happily ruin the crap out of a lot of really big stuff if you watch it. For some of you this may not matter, but for those that it does matter to, I wanted to give you fair warning now since the story in this game is actually pretty well done and I'd hate to see it ruined for anyone.

Good luck!