CaiMy partner is hooked. He's decided to challenge himself by going as far as he can on the free trial, and crafting as much as he can. Because he can't interact with the market board or trade with other players, he's going the self-sufficiency route, and leveling all gatherers as well as the crafters he needs. For now he's having a great time. I'm kind of hoping he reaches a point where he decides to go full game, so I can give him a bunch of stuff, and he can do things like sending tells and forming parties, and so the poor man can have some retainers to hold his things.
Still, I'm just glad we're both into the same MMO right now. Running dungeons with him is something I hadn't done since early COVID, when we got back into Classic WoW together 