1) late ARR first time, dropped it soon after, came back for Shadowbringers.

2) Yep, well, I'll be playing the game, I'm taking some time off a couple of weeks after release to go through the MSQ, so the first week or so I'll probably still be doing some catch up stuff. I am looking forward to it, want to take this one slow and enjoy the world building/side quests/everything as intended, I've recently been going through old expansion content, and realized just how much I missed by focusing mainly on the MSQ.

3) I have no strong feelings one way or another about the media tour, I don't really pay attention to that stuff much, and don't follow anything FFXIV related on social media, other than the little bit I see here.