Final Fantasy XIV is resuming free trials on February 22nd after a two month hiatus

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Final Fantasy XIV's free trial will be back on February 22nd, two months after it was stopped because of the Endwalker expansion. The latest Letter from the Producer Livestream from director and producer Naoki Yoshida took place over the weekend.

For new players, Final Fantasy XIV has a free trial option that allows them to play the entire base release and the Heavensward expansion for as long as they want. Square Enix's enthusiastic social media hype for the free trial has become a meme.

Endwalker was released in December and may have been too popular. The trial does not include access to the latest expansion. The game's server couldn't handle the amount of people rushing in to play the new content and a new wave of players looking to check out what the hype was all about. The game was temporarily stopped from being sold and a free trial removed in order to make sure that existing players could get in. The free trial had been absent until now, but sales of the game resumed in January.