I apologize if this has been answered already but I've been looking into getting this game after I played the beta but don't want to shell out the money just to see if I can run it on my laptop. I recently got a new one and the specs are slightly lower so I was wondering if the game had a trial version? I looked on the site but couldn't find anything about it, but I could be just blind.

No free trial but it has a benchmark.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/benchmark/

@darji: Okay thanks for the link, it looks like my laptop should be able to run it fine. I might have to get this tonight.