They've started selling digital copies again.
When you get in, it's tempting to quickly level and overlevel your story quest and the surrounding side quests. The only problem I'm finding is that questing, crafting and buying are the only 3 ways to get armour or weapons. They don't drop from mobs, you'll occasionally find them from dungeons (but it's rare for me to see a piece I can use and my Dragoon uses the same kind of armour as tanks, and rolling against them is rough (especially when it won't let me roll need on an item it's supposed to let me roll need on.)
So now I'm looking all over hell and creation for the zone where I SHOULD be so I can keep from wasting all of my gil on new armour from vendors or the overpriced market board (auction house).
I'd do crafting, but it is /excruciatingly/ dull (and I don't use that adjective lightly).