Because carby is the only summon that looks like it's traditional form and also has all the anesthetics of feeling like a pet.
All the other summons seem like detached blobs of polygons with no real personality.
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Um what's the source of this screenshot and is this a new monster? I've never seen it in game before.
It's on the FFXIV Facebook as well as some sites in various languages (none of which being English).
I think we're leading up to that. We need the story to reach a certain point so the roaming Primals will actually make sense. Right now they don't fit Lore. Now it'll be Lore breaking regardless to people who aren't far enough in the story but that's inevitable with an MMO.
I'd call it false advertisement. :p I can see the budding new summoners now...
I wouldn't mind a Carbuncle simply because it has Cure Abilities. which is kinda cool for Pet swap situations :3