This game is bloody amazing. It's a slow burn, but the story is one of the best in the Final Fantasy Genre, if not in all of RPGs. The social aspects are where the game really shines along with the story though--there are so many players, and so many ways to interact and just hang out, let alone get together and do content.
Highly recommend for anyone tired of WoW and Blizzard's BS. I know I was, and I haven't looked back.