I think it's a very accessible game. I've only played it for the duration of the one month free trial - and I wish I'd just sucked it up and paid the subscription - but by the end of that month I'd done a load of stuff. I hadn't moved out into the world much, but I'd done a fair few quests, including one that ended in a boss fight for which I was suicidally underlevelled but was heroically saved at the last second by a random player healing and buffing me. Also, by two weeks in, I had a pretty nice little business buying supplies, making trout out of them and selling them at a markup. It was a tidy profit with minimal effort and it helped me out with other things.

I enjoyed the game even though I didn't have contact with anyone. I didn't really meet new people there, and I didn't hang out with the EoFFers playing. My advice would be to talk to those lot and get them to show you the ropes as it will make your initiation that much easier.