Sorry chaps, tonight was the only time I've been able to get so far to look for houses. On the plus side, I now have a shortlist of places to try and view, so I may not be homeless in 20 days.
Don't know if anyone cares but this is currently having a welcome back campaign. You can log in if you have a cancelled subscription. For a limited time you can download a copy of the client from the website (which might be handy for future use if you ever plan to go back). The recent expansion is heavily discounted, as is the complete collection. World transfer is also heavily discounted. There's also double EXP and some kind of Alter Ego campaign going on in-game.
"ERE's like Mr. Muscle, he loves the things he hates"
The end is nigh! They're doing a final free expansion to finish off the story and then the game will end as a console MMO in March 2016 when service terminates for PS2 and 360. PC will continue and there will also be a mobile spin-off game and some kind of mobile F2P version of the game.
Now that I'm up to date with the FFXIV story, this is the last mainline FF story campaign I've never finished. Time to get it out of the way! I'm gonna resubscribe for a month and then hopefully they'll have a free welcome back campaign not long after that. Gonna see if I can manage to get somewhere with it.
"ERE's like Mr. Muscle, he loves the things he hates"
Sea Serpent Grotto - gosh pretty grim in there too. can't remember what I farmed in there tbh. I'm going with some type of Hecaeyes for the O-Hat pop items.