Whatever happened to Cait Sith and Atomos?

[Masamonae]

I don't mean to come across as brash but haven't we been waiting for these said avatars for over 2 years? I understand you're all very busy making new content and whatnot, but I mean, 2 years is a long time. Haven't the SMNs been patient long enough?

[Dreamin]

SE is racing against Team Obama to see which would be the slowest to implement a promised made years ago (these 2 summons were announced back in 7/2011). So far, it appears that Team Obama is in the slight lead. Would SE make a come back? Stay tuned...

[Alhanelem]

Could you at least define "a bit more time" ?

This stuff was announced years ago. I've been away from the game for at least 6 months and I was pretty bummed not to even get any real news about this.

Producer, do you realize that the best way to ensure the continued longevity of your player base is to deliver on your promises (and the promises of those made before you came in)? Many other jobs have gotten new spells and abilities on a fairly regular basis over the last few years. SMN hasn't really gotten anything other than the new 1-hour (which, by the way, is awesome, so some thanks are deserved for that). Summoner is easily one of the most popular/famous jobs since the ones in the original game and new content for the job always seems to get brushed under the rug. Even PUP has gotten waaaaaaay more love.

[Tohihroyu]

Its not going to happen, plain and simple. its vaporware yet they keep on beating around the bush.

[Karbuncle]

You know when Cait Sith/Etc were first announce, I recall jokes about "looking forward to Cait Sith in 2014"... Its a little funny their half-joking post hit the mark so close.

[Hexadecimal]

SE is racing against Team Obama to see which would be the slowest to implement a promised made years ago (these 2 summons were announced back in 7/2011). So far, it appears that Team Obama is in the slight lead. Would SE make a come back? Stay tuned...

I think you're giving Team Obama way too much credit.

[Kote]

I've never put to much faith that there would be a CaitSith avatar letalone one for Atomos (it only does so much). At best, much of the pacts and animations should have already been done with the BC against Cait Sith Ceither. I was also more on the assumption that cinsidering the plot for Wings of the Goddess. Atomos would have more likely been a 2hr blood pact ability for Cait Sith.

As for why I don't expect this to ever to be finished is mostly due to the Kindrid Freelances in Campaign. They built up (via that taru npc) the fact they could be swayed to fight for the various nations. They made them NPC's when theres no battles. Then tossed asside so they can stay on track with the missions and various plot updates.

I think they made Odin and Alexander summons mid way through WoG. They could have also used an Alexander Idol as the summon and full size Alex as the 2hr ability. However I think they just took the path of least resistance on getting Alexander out quickly. Instead of developing new animations for an Idol to use all of Alex's abilities.

Now we had three mini expansions, a three part Abyssea mini expansion, and now Adoulin. Cait sith would have been done by now now or at best by the time we were fighting Provenance Watcher. The quest could have started after the WoG plot (like ToA) and fought in The walk of Echos. If they wanted a simple plot it could have been to make sure atomos stayed dormant or to prevent more Vw NM's from apearing in their world via Atomos.

More Likely in my opinion its probably the 2hr abilities (Cait Sith had none), filler pacts (spells dont have animations), and what to do with atomos (if at all). Since it had almost no animation effects or abilities, especially for combat. Cait Sith also doesn't have that glow like the other avatars. Then theres the prizes for defeating them, it'll need to be content relevant now. Hell I go as far as saying well see a sword weilding Magian moogle as an avatar by the time Cait Sith is done. Then Smmoners can say they have the disposable Paladin that Alexander could have been.

[Powder]

Hello,

There was a slight miscommunication regarding what was said during the Niconico live stream and we have a response from Akihiko Matsui outlining the correct statement.

I apologize for the error and have corrected the previous post.

Sorry for disgusted rudeness but before you promise us things in this game all this you said above should have been done. I gave up on summoner long time ago after you didn't keep your promise about these last two avatars.


Originally Posted by Akihiko_Matsui
Matsui here.

I apologize for making you all wait for the Cait Sith and Atomos avatars.

In order to implement these avatars, we need to not only create their associated spells and effects, but we also need to prepare various things such as the quest to obtain them and the battles related to the quests.

As there is other work to be done on this to get it ready besides just the avatars themselves, we'd appreciate it greatly if you could give us a bit more time to implement them.

[Babekeke]

You know when Cait Sith/Etc were first announce, I recall jokes about "looking forward to Cait Sith in 2014"... Its a little funny their half-joking post hit the mark so close.

I think that whomever said 2020 is closer to the mark. They're just struggling to make atomos not sh1t, is all. My guess is that Cait Sith has been ready for ages. After all, she already had all the required abilities and animations.

[Zirael]

I don't mean to come across as brash but haven't we been waiting for these said avatars for over 2 years? I understand you're all very busy making new content and whatnot, but I mean, 2 years is a long time. Haven't the SMNs been patient long enough?

Cait Sith and Atomos are new content. Last update we got reskinned BCNMs and armor to play with. I'd rather have something new instead.